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Jun 5, 2020

The building defects crisis | Q&A webinar

Helen will be joined by our lead­ing experts across a range of areas from archi­tec­ture, engi­neer­ing, water­proof­ing, fire and cladding to dis­cuss all aspects that are impact­ing on con­struc­tion indus­try, where we are going wrong, what we are doing right and what we need to do to min­imise the prob­lems that…

Mar 31, 2020

Swaab’s Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects team ranked in Doyles Guide 2020

Once again, our Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects (PPP) team has been named as a Rec­om­mend­ed firm in the Doyles Lead­ing Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Law Firms – NSW, 2020. This award recog­nis­es firms prac­tis­ing with­in the areas of trans­ac­tion­al, leas­ing and devel­op­ment prop­er­ty mat­ters in the NSW legal mar­ket who have been…

Mar 16, 2020

Inter­na­tion­al Wom­en’s Day 2020 #Each­forE­qual — Helen Kowal

What priv­i­leges or chal­lenges do you stereo­typ­i­cal­ly and gener­i­cal­ly face in your area of work? Hav­ing worked pri­mar­i­ly in the area of con­struc­tion and stra­ta law for the past decade, it has become abun­dant­ly clear that the con­struc­tion indus­try is stereo­typ­i­cal­ly ​‘male’. The major­i­ty of builders, devel­op­ers and expert build­ing con­sul­tants…

Dec 4, 2019

Final Touch­es being made on New Build­ing Laws: What you need to know

Part­ner, Helen Kow­al is fea­tured in the Com­mer­cial Prop­er­ty Guide on 26 Novem­ber 2019 to pro­vide insight about the new lay­er of rules and reg­u­la­tions which is about to be added to the busi­ness of con­struct­ing new build­ings, and design­ers, builders and archi­tects are being advised to famil­iarise them­selves with…

Apr 1, 2019

New Part­ner Joins Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects Team

Swaab is delight­ed to wel­come new part­ner Helen Kow­al to the firm’s PPP Prac­tice.Helen brings with her a career span­ning over 25 years in gen­er­al prac­tice, for the past decade Helen has spe­cialised in build­ing and con­struc­tion, stra­ta and prop­er­ty law, includ­ing lit­i­ga­tion and dis­put­ed res­o­lu­tion. Helen has worked for many own­ers…