Richard Lustig
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 3 : Corporate/M&A
About
Provided by Richard Lustig
Practice Areas
Richard Lustig — a partner in the Firm’s Melbourne office — is the Australian head of mergers and acquisitions and has 30 years experience in acting for bidders and targets. Richard focuses on public mergers and acquisitions including takeovers and schemes of arrangements, as well as initial public offerings and capital raisings.
Richard focuses his practice on takeovers, other public mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, capital raisings, commercial agreements and corporate governance advice. He also works with clients on listing rules compliance, Corporations Act advice, as well as Australian and international capital restructurings. Richard coordinates the relationship with many companies using Baker McKenzie worldwide, and travels frequently in the Asia Pacific region, including to Japan. Richard acts as the Baker McKenzie relationship partner for numerous clients, and enjoys close relationships with them and their corporate advisers.
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Richard Lustig heads the Baker McKenzie M&A team from the Melbourne office, taking personal charge of many key mandates and bringing to his work especially noted experience in the handling of cross-border transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Richard is not just strong within his specific area of expertise, he also has a breadth of knowledge and experience, legally and commercially, across many sectors, which we find invaluable."
"Richard is not just strong within his specific area of expertise, he also has a breadth of knowledge and experience, legally and commercially, across many sectors, which we find invaluable."