Lucinda Smith

Lucinda Smith


Thomson Geer

Recognized since 2012

Sydney, Australia

Practice Areas

Commercial Law

Health and Aged Care Law

Non-Profit / Charities Law

Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2025 - Non-Profit / Charities Law
Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2025 - Non-Profit / Charities Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Non-Profit / Charities Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2019 - Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2017 - Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2013 - Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law
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Lucinda is a Partner in the firm’s Corporate team. She also sits on the firm’s National Executive Team, in the role of Partner – Service Delivery. In this role, she manages and oversees the firm’s ability to drive improvement in and modernisation of our service delivery in all parts of our business.

Lucinda is a specialist in the health, aged care, and retirement village industries and brings a commercial, solutions-driven approach to corporate transactions. Her work in the industry focuses on mergers and acquisitions/corporate structuring, regulatory advice, projects (including the development of new hospitals, care facilities, and villages), and operational contracts.

Lucinda’s clients include major players in the corporate, health, aged care and retirement village sectors, research institutes, and health funds.

Recent experience includes:

  • Advised Ingenia Communities on its acquisition of 5 rental retirement villages and a tourist park. The purchases incorporated 274 senior village rental units and 236 cabin and camp sites. The units are located throughout New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania.
  • Advised Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Project on the A$260 million Lifehouse facility for the provision of integrated cancer services in a new purpose-built facility on the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital campus in Sydney. This partnership is the first of its kind in Australia, and will result in one of the most significant cancer treatment and research facilities in Australia.

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Location
  • Sixty Martin Place
    Level 14, 60 Martin Place
    GPO Box 3909
    Sydney NSW 2001
    Australia

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Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2025 - Non-Profit / Charities Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Non-Profit / Charities Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2019 - Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2017 - Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2013 - Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Non-Profit / Charities Law, Sydney, Australia (2025)
  • Non-Profit / Charities Law, Sydney, Australia (2023)
  • Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law, Sydney, Australia (2019)
  • Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law, Sydney, Australia (2017)
  • Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law, Sydney, Australia (2013)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Australia 2025 for work in:
  • Commercial Law
  • Health and Aged Care Law
  • Non-Profit / Charities Law
  • Retirement Villages and Senior Living Law
Awards:
  • Doyle’s Guide as a “Preeminent” lawyer in the area of Health & Aged Care in New South Wales (2017 – 2020), and in Australia (2017 & 2019).

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