Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2012 
Lucinda is a Partner advising clients across the healthcare and housing sectors. Her clients include major hospital groups, aged care and retirement living operators, across not-for-profit and faith-based organisations and private investors. She also works with medical research institutes and primary health networks.
Her practice centres on mergers and acquisitions and major health service delivery, including the development of hospitals, care facilities and retirement villages. That transactional work is supported by a deep understanding of the regulatory and funding environment in which her clients operate: the Aged Care Act, public and private health regulation and retirement village legislation across jurisdictions. She advises boards and executives on governance, fiduciary duties and regulatory response, and helps clients navigate enforcement proceedings and advocate for change in a sector undergoing significant reform.
Lucinda acts on transactions and projects where regulatory complexity, community impact and governance exposure intersect. Her matters include multi-jurisdictional portfolio acquisitions, landmark public-private hospital partnerships and sensitive regulatory response. She is engaged where the funding model is complex, the regulatory environment is intense and the consequences of getting the structure or the compliance wrong are significant.
Lucinda combines transactional depth with sector-specific regulatory knowledge that is rare in M&A practice. She understands the commercial drivers that shape decisions in health and care: funding constraints, community obligations, workforce pressures and the weight of public and regulatory scrutiny. That combination of legal and sector expertise positions her to advise not just on the transaction, but on the operating environment clients will face after it closes. She is an active contributor to aged care reform consultations and a published commentator on regulatory change across the sector.
