Partner · Russell Kennedy
Melbourne, VIC
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Rory Maguire is a partner at Russell Kennedy in Melbourne, working in business sales, mergers and acquisitions and partnership & joint ventures. Doyle’s Guide lists Rory Maguire as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026. The Victorian register of lawyers lists Rory Maguire as a current practitioner (Principal with Trust).
Firm
Russell Kennedy
Role
Partner
Office
Melbourne
Doyle’s Guide
Recommended 2026
Register
Principal with Trust
Rory Maguire is a partner in Russell Kennedy's Corporate & Commercial team, whose work spans acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, schemes of arrangement, and fundraising, lending and joint-venture matters. He acts for listed and private companies, family offices, government bodies and start-ups, with exposure to sectors such as financial services, health, aged care, manufacturing, retail and technology. Before joining Russell Kennedy he spent more than a decade in Herbert Smith Freehills' Melbourne corporate/M&A team, and earlier worked in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell, alongside secondments to a major bank and a state government department.
Doyle’s Guide lists Rory Maguire as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026.
Rory Maguire’s most recent listings. Every edition we could verify is set out in the ranking history below.
Every Doyle’s listing we could verify for Rory Maguire. Each list page was opened individually on doylesguide.com, one edition at a time, on 17 September 2026; no run of years has been inferred from a single page.
Years are the edition years Doyle’s publishes. Rory Maguire is not in the Victorian business and commercial lawyers list for 2024, which we confirmed by searching each of those pages; that list was first published in 2021. We searched Doyle’s Victorian and national lawyer lists for commercial, corporate, property, leasing, insolvency, technology, employment, construction and estates work from 2015 to 2026.
As listed by Russell Kennedy:
Sectors. Aged Care; Health; Insolvency & Restructuring.
Listings in other directories, as published by the source shown. We have not independently verified these.
Rory Maguire is listed on the Victorian register of lawyers kept by the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. The entry is reproduced below as it appeared on 17 September 2026 (the address field is omitted).
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Rory Maguire is a partner at Russell Kennedy in Melbourne, working in business sales, mergers and acquisitions and partnership & joint ventures.
Doyle’s Guide lists Rory Maguire as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2026. Each edition is linked in the ranking history on this page.
According to Russell Kennedy: Business Sales; Mergers and Acquisitions; Partnership & Joint Ventures; Commercial Agreements; Due Diligence; Corporate Advisory; Business Law; Commercial Advice; Business and Investment Structures; Corporations Law; Public Private Partnership; Regulatory Compliance.
Through Russell Kennedy. This profile is editorial; Rory Maguire has not claimed it and has no commercial relationship with Lawyer Reviews.
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