News

Dec 19, 2022

Dior admits to hold­ing $260k of Melis­sa Caddick’s stolen funds | Michael Hayter quot­ed in SMH 16 Decem­ber 2022

A spe­cial thank you to Bruce Glee­son, Daniel Soire and the team at Jones Part­ners for entrust­ing the team at Swaab, head­ed up by Michael Hayter, with all of the legal work in his chal­leng­ing admin­is­tra­tion of Melis­sa Cad­dick. There have been numer­ous suc­cess­ful con­test­ed and uncon­test­ed appli­ca­tions before the…

Jun 23, 2022

Exclu­sive Hugo Wines Tast­ing Client Event | 22 June 2022

Clients, Paul West­on, Cameron Gray, Daniel Mat­ta from DW Advi­so­ry, Matthew Erwin, Cash­man Con­sult­ing and Steven Mar­tin, Mar­tin & Orr and Swaab part­ners, lawyers and sup­port staff were treat­ed to an inti­mate and exclu­sive wine tast­ing event that high­light­ed Hugo Wines new releas­es and sev­er­al well known wines.  To con­tact William Hugo…

Jun 21, 2022

Tour de Cure Snow Ball 2022 Black Tie Gala Event

The mid year Ball raised over $1.8m in dona­tions and is the char­i­ties mid year gala black tie fund rais­ing event. The event brings togeth­er more than 1,100 guests, celebri­ty and sup­port­ers, enabling Sydney’s phil­an­thropic com­mu­ni­ty and lead­ing cor­po­rate organ­i­sa­tions to come togeth­er for the com­mon goal of rais­ing funds…

Apr 12, 2022

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Par­ents of Melis­sa Cad­dick admit they were fleeced by fraud­ster daugh­ter” pub­lished in the SMH 12 April 2022

Caddick’s hus­band, Antho­ny Kol­leti, is stak­ing a claim over his wife’s assets, includ­ing part of any pro­ceeds from the sale of her Dover Heights home, accord­ing to an affi­davit filed by the solic­i­tor for the receivers, Michael Hayter, from Swaab lawyers. To read the full arti­cle click here…

Mar 28, 2022

Swaab’s Newest Part­ner Wel­come Event | Thurs­day 24 March 2022

Despite the rain in Syd­ney on Thurs­day we had a full house to cel­e­brate the appoint­ment of Michael Hayter, Ger­ald Carides and Nicholas Dale. With well over 85 friends and clients of the firm from the Com­mer­cial Finance, Insol­ven­cy and Restruc­tur­ing indus­try sec­tors, com­ing togeth­er to cel­e­brate and wel­come Swaab’s newest partners. …

Mar 21, 2022

Antho­ny v Antho­ny: hus­bands at odds as frus­tra­tion grows in Cad­dick case | SMH 21/03/2022

Frus­tra­tion appears to be grow­ing for the court-appoint­ed receivers who are try­ing to sell Ms Caddick’s assets but are being pre­vent­ed from doing so by mem­bers of her fam­i­ly who are stak­ing claims on assets includ­ing real estate and jew­ellery. Michael Hayter — Part­ner, Swaab has point­ed out that many…

Nov 25, 2021

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in The Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald in the Fed­er­al Court Case of miss­ing fraud­ster Melis­sa Caddick

Michael Hayter who is rep­re­sent­ing the court-appoint­ed Liq­uida­tors said, ​“I have been instruct­ed to imme­di­ate­ly issue notices”. Mr Hayter said the notices had been sent to Ms Caddick’s fam­i­ly mem­bers on Wednes­day after­noon fol­low­ing the pub­li­ca­tion of Fed­er­al Court Jus­tice Brigitte Markovic’s judgment. To read the full SMH arti­cle click here…

Nov 25, 2021

Michael Hayter appeared last night on the ABC News 7.30 Report, in an exten­sive inter­view on the need for stronger enforce­ment in the pre-insol­ven­cy industry

Michael Hayter appeared last night on the ABC News 7.30 Report, in an exten­sive inter­view on the need for stronger enforce­ment in the pre-insol­ven­cy indus­try. The inter­view relates to the cir­cum­stances in which two pre-insol­ven­cy advi­sors and a direc­tor were con­vict­ed of var­i­ous offens­es and received prison sen­tences after Michael Hayter…

Jul 8, 2021

Swaab fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly | Swaab adds team from Gillis Delaney

Swaab has wel­comed a team of four, includ­ing two part­ners, from fel­low SME prac­tice Gillis Delaney. This month, Swaab has wel­comed four pro­fes­sion­als – part­ners Michael Hayter and Ger­ald Carides, senior asso­ciate Suzi Sto­janovs­ki and con­veyancer and para­le­gal Renee Hinkel­bein – to the firm. All four have come from Gillis Delaney. The addi­tion…

Jul 6, 2021

Press Release | A new team joins Swaab

These appoint­ments mean the addi­tion of four new staff includ­ing two part­ners, which brings Swaab’s total part­ner­ship num­bers to 17 locat­ed in Sydney. Swaab was recent­ly fea­tured in The Aus­tralian’s 2021 legal part­ner­ship sur­vey, con­duct­ed by Eaton Strat­e­gy + Search, in which it was revealed as expe­ri­enc­ing the strongest part­ner­ship growth…