News

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…

Jul 6, 2021

Swaab announces the appoint­ment of Suzi Sto­janovs­ki — Senior Associate

Suzi is an expe­ri­enced Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tor with exten­sive expe­ri­ence in bank­ing and finance lit­i­ga­tion, cor­po­ra­tions law, secu­ri­ties enforce­ment, insol­ven­cy and con­trac­tu­al disputes. …

Jul 6, 2021

Swaab announces the appoint­ment of Ger­ald Carides — Partner

Ger­ald has prac­ticed as a com­mer­cial trans­ac­tion­al lawyer for over 16 years. Ger­ald has exten­sive bank­ing, finance and secu­ri­ties enforce­ment expe­ri­ence. He has advised clients in com­plex and sig­nif­i­cant-val­ue acqui­si­tions across a wide range of indus­try sec­tors includ­ing health­care, real estate, infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy and finance. …

Jul 6, 2021

Swaab announces the appoint­ment of Michael Hayter — Partner

Michael has prac­ticed as a Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tion lawyer for over 30 years with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on com­mer­cial dis­putes and insol­ven­cy mat­ters. He has con­sis­tent­ly been ranked by inde­pen­dent pub­li­ca­tions as one of the lead­ing lawyers in New South Wales in the areas of com­mer­cial lit­i­ga­tion and insol­ven­cy. Michael’s prac­tice also involves under­tak­ing…

Jul 1, 2021

Swaab announces the pro­mo­tion of Esther Khoo to Senior Associate

The pro­mo­tion recog­nis­es Esther’s excel­lent legal skills cou­pled with his desire to pro­vide excep­tion­al client ser­vice. As an invalu­able part of our Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tion team we look for­ward to recog­nis­ing Esther as she con­tin­ues to devel­op and grow as a senior practitioner. Con­grat­u­la­tions Esther…

Apr 19, 2021

Swaab announces the pro­mo­tion of Daniel Miller to Associate

The pro­mo­tion recog­nis­es Daniel’s excel­lent legal skills cou­pled with his desire to pro­vide excep­tion­al client ser­vice. As an invalu­able part of our Lit­i­ga­tion team we look for­ward to recog­nis­ing Daniel as he con­tin­ues to devel­op and grow as a senior practitioner.Con­grat­u­la­tions Daniel…

Feb 23, 2021

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with Esther Khoo

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

Nov 10, 2020

Hol­i­day Office Clo­sure 2020

If you need to speak with one of our lawyers, please call +61 2 9233 5544. We wish you a hap­py hol­i­days and a pros­per­ous new year!…

Sep 21, 2020

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients

Client feed­back and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment are impor­tant to us at Swaab and form a key com­po­nent of our Swaab Brand of Service.  The key find­ings included: we exceed­ed your expec­ta­tions when it comes to our performance you find us extreme­ly easy to work with, and  you are like­ly to rec­om­mend your key con­tact and…

May 7, 2020

COVID-19 | Mak­ing it eas­i­er for busi­ness to oper­ate dur­ing COVID-19

Meet­ings As of 6 May 2020, com­pa­nies in Aus­tralia will be able to con­vene annu­al gen­er­al meet­ings and oth­er meet­ings pre­scribed under the Cor­po­ra­tions Act 2001 entire­ly online rather than face-to-face thanks to the Cor­po­ra­tions (Coro­n­avirus (Coro­n­avirus Eco­nom­ic Response) Deter­mi­na­tion (No.1) 2020.As con­tem­plat­ed in para­graph 5 of the Deter­mi­na­tion a com­pa­ny that has…