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Apr 19, 2022

2022 Mer­i­tas Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works: The Elite (Legal Net­work) in Glob­al Mar­ket Lead­ers Legal Rankings

Glob­al Guide Rankings The Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works: The Elite (Legal Net­work) rank­ings table has been designed to pro­vide the most in-depth insights and reviews of the top ranked lawyers and law firms. The firms includ­ed in the rank­ings have been rec­om­mend­ed by in-house coun­sel, oth­er third-par­ty experts  About Mer­i­tas Mer­i­tas is…

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…

Oct 12, 2021

2021 Mer­i­tas ​‘Elite’ Law Firm Network

Cham­bers out­lines the exact­ing cri­te­ria for ​‘Elite’ net­works in their com­men­tary for the 2021 guide: “In the Elite cat­e­go­ry of the Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works sec­tion, the rank­ings focus on the most impres­sive inde­pen­dent law firm net­works worldwide. The chief cri­te­ri­on for a lead­ing legal net­work, is that the mem­ber firms are inde­pen­dent…

Sep 1, 2021

Lawyers Week­ly | Swaab Grows Partnership

Nicholas Dale will come on board as a part­ner from 6 Sep­tem­ber, bring­ing with him over 27 years’ expe­ri­ence in lit­i­ga­tion and insol­ven­cy matters. Com­ment­ing on the move, Swaab man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio described the appoint­ment of Mr Dale as sig­nif­i­cant and that comes in line with the demand the firm’s lit­i­ga­tion and insol­ven­cy…

Aug 27, 2021

Press Release | New Part­ner Appoint­ment — Nicholas Dale

“This is an excit­ing time for Swaab and our Lit­i­ga­tion and Insol­ven­cy team. Our suc­cess has come from putting our peo­ple and clients first and by mak­ing strate­gic appoint­ments that build on our strong focus on cul­ture, well­be­ing and client ser­vice. This appoint­ment will serve to bol­ster our already impres­sive…

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…