News

Jan 22, 2015

2015 to be anoth­er excit­ing year for Swaab! 

2014 was a busy year, dur­ing which we imple­ment­ed struc­tur­al change, pro­mot­ed a num­ber of our own peo­ple and secured some new part­ners to join us. In 2015 we are look­ing for­ward to more pro­mo­tions, fur­ther strate­gic growth to bol­ster and com­ple­ment our exist­ing prac­tice areas and a focus on using tech­nol­o­gy to inno­vate…

Jan 21, 2015

Swaab appoints new lit­i­ga­tion partner

Swaab is pleased to announce that Marc Bad­dams has been pro­mot­ed to part­ner in the lit­i­ga­tion team. Marc has been with Swaab for over 6 years start­ing as an Asso­ciate in 2008. Marc spe­cialis­es in com­mer­cial lit­i­ga­tion and dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and has expe­ri­ence in fed­er­al and state courts, tri­bunals and alter­na­tive dis­pute…

Dec 4, 2014

Swaab wel­comes new Senior Asso­ciate in Cor­po­rate Law

Edei Ledet has joined Swaab as a senior asso­ciate in the Cor­po­rate Law depart­ment. Edei has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in cor­po­rate merg­ers and acqui­si­tions, com­pli­ance and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance, and gen­er­al cor­po­rate advice. Edei’s expe­ri­ence cov­ers both the US and Aus­tralian mar­ket hav­ing most recent­ly worked for Minter Elli­son Lawyers and AXA Aus­tralia Limited…

Oct 23, 2014

Swaab wel­comes new Senior Asso­ciate in Fam­i­ly law

Geo­van­na Jam­mo has joined Swaab as a senior asso­ciate in the Fam­i­ly law department.  Geo­van­na has more than 10 years expe­ri­ence as a solic­i­tor and now prac­tices exclu­sive­ly in fam­i­ly law. Geo­van­na has acquired a broad range of fam­i­ly law, com­mer­cial and prop­er­ty legal expe­ri­ence. For the last 8 years Geo­van­na has focused pri­mar­i­ly on…

Oct 23, 2014

War­wick Ryan explains why work­place stress com­pen­sa­tion claims soar

Employ­ment part­ner War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on why the num­ber of employ­ees seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion over work­place-relat­ed stress is on the rise. Work­Cov­er data obtained by Fair­fax shows the aver­age indi­vid­ual com­pen­sa­tion pay­out for psy­cho­log­i­cal injuries has risen from $73,000 in 2008-09 to almost $90,000 in 2013 – 14.> READ THE ARTICLE…

Oct 21, 2014

Mar­i­lyn Haupt­mann fea­tured in AFR online on mar­i­tal pay­outs tax changes

Fam­i­ly law spe­cial­ist Mar­i­lyn Haupt­mann has been fea­tured in Aus­tralian Finan­cial Review online on the recent tax changes affect­ing house­holds going through a divorce or separation. Although news broke a few months ago that divorce pay­outs from com­pa­nies will be tax­able under a new tax rul­ing, lawyers and accoun­tants say most peo­ple like­ly to…

Oct 3, 2014

Swaab works on deal to beef up JBS

Swaab Attor­neys has advised Andrew Meat Indus­tries on the pur­chase by JBS Aus­tralia of a major­i­ty share­hold­ing in the business. The trans­ac­tion by the world’s largest ani­mal pro­tein pro­cess­ing busi­ness sees a new com­pa­ny being estab­lished, which will con­tin­ue to oper­ate under the name Andrews Meat Indus­tries Pty Ltd. The pur­chase of major­i­ty shares…

Oct 3, 2014

Swaab advis­es UXC Lim­it­ed on two major acquisitions

Syd­ney law firm Swaab Attor­neys has advised list­ed IT ser­vices spe­cial­ist UXC Lim­it­ed on two major acqui­si­tions which expand UXC’s ser­vice offer­ings into the South­east Asian mar­ket and sig­nif­i­cant­ly increase its cyber secu­ri­ty capabilities. Ora­cle soft­ware spe­cial­ist UXC Red Rock, has acquired asset life cycle man­age­ment provider Con­ver­gence Team. The…

Sep 25, 2014

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on Qan­tas unfair dis­missal case

Swaab employ­ment part­ner War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on a recent­ly reject­ed unfair dis­missal claim which was made by a Qan­tas flight atten­dant with a his­to­ry of being drunk at work. Mar­got Crow­ley, who had worked for the air­line for just over 28 years, was sacked in Jan­u­ary after an inci­dent in which…

Sep 19, 2014

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on Fair Work case

Swaab employ­ment law spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on the recent fair work case involv­ing a Mel­bourne radio sta­tion that must now back-pay two of their for­mer radio pre­sen­ters more than $60,000 in out­stand­ing wages and entitlements. While 3CW Chi­nese Radio Pty Ltd ini­tial­ly main­tained the for­mer pre­sen­ters were…