News

Jul 14, 2014

Swaab senior asso­ciate Susan Walsh fea­tured in Smart­com­pa­ny on Apple’s trademark

Swaab senior asso­ciate, Susan Walsh, has fea­tured in a Smart­Com­pa­ny arti­cle cov­er­ing Apple’s right to trade­mark its flag­ship store design in Europe. In the arti­cle, Susan high­lights the dif­fer­ences in Aus­trali­a’s trade­mark régime and what hur­dles com­pa­nies have to over­come if they wish to trade­mark a store lay­out in Australia. > Read the article…

Jul 1, 2014

2014 Swaab Promotions

Swaab is pleased to announce that Annette Wil­son has been pro­mot­ed to part­ner and Wendy Con­ce­icao to senior associate. Annette has been with Swaab for over 4 years as a spe­cial coun­sel in the Fam­i­ly Law team. Annette is an Accred­it­ed Spe­cial­ist in Fam­i­ly Law by the Law Soci­ety of New South Wales…

May 12, 2014

Swaab wel­comes Shaw Reynolds team

Swaab and Shaw Reynolds are pleased to announce that as of 1 July 2014 Chris Shaw and the team at Shaw Reynolds will be join­ing Swaab’s Prop­er­ty and Projects Group. For the past 10 years Chris Shaw has been the prin­ci­pal part­ner at Shaw Reynolds has been ser­vic­ing clients in the prop­er­ty indus­try…

Mar 21, 2014

Swaab wel­comes two new graduates

Swaab is delight­ed to announce the arrival of two new grad­u­ates. Eliz­a­beth San­tifort and James Skel­ton will be under­tak­ing Swaab’s grad­u­ate pro­gram, includ­ing three six month rota­tions. They fol­low in the foot­steps of two exist­ing grad­u­ates, Euge Pow­er and Tim Hard­wick who start­ed at Swaab in late 2013 and are…

Mar 21, 2014

Swaab wel­comes new senior asso­ciate to IP and tech­nol­o­gy team

Susan Walsh has joined Swaab as a senior asso­ciate, expand­ing the capa­bil­i­ty of our com­mer­cial, and IP and tech­nol­o­gy teams. Susan spe­cialis­es in com­mer­cial and tech­nol­o­gy law, par­tic­u­lar­ly in draft­ing and nego­ti­a­tion of sup­ply and dis­tri­b­u­tion con­tracts, tech­nol­o­gy con­tracts, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty licens­ing, pri­va­cy and inter­net law, and advis­ing on mar­ket­ing…

Mar 17, 2014

Swaab employ­ment part­ner fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on employ­ee underpayments

Swaab employ­ment part­ner, War­wick Ryan has fea­tured in a Smart­Com­pa­ny arti­cle cov­er­ing alleged under­pay­ment of 10 abat­toir work­ers in region­al NSW. In the arti­cle War­wick gives his take on the case and rea­sons why under­pay­ment can occur in small­er businesses. Read the article…

Mar 5, 2014

Lawyers Week­ly fea­tures Swaab’s appoint­ment of new part­ner Paul Brennan

Swaab’s appoint­ment of new part­ner Paul Bren­nan has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly. Join­ing the firm on April 28, Paul will lead Swaab’s new con­struc­tion and engi­neer­ing group. Read the article…

Feb 24, 2014

Swaab appoints new Man­ag­ing Partner

Today Swaab announced that it has returned to a man­ag­ing part­ner lead­er­ship struc­ture and has appoint­ed Swaab part­ner Mary Digiglio to take on the role. As Swaab’s prop­er­ty prac­tice group leader, Mary is an inte­gral part of the fir­m’s vision, ethos, val­ues and cul­ture. At just 38, Mary has built a suc­cess­ful prac­tice…

Dec 9, 2013

Swaab assists UXC with two strate­gic acquisitions

Swaab has advised UXC Lim­it­ed [UXC] on the acqui­si­tion of Key­stone Man­age­ment Solu­tions, Aus­trali­a’s largest reseller and ser­vices provider for Ser­vi­ceNow. Ser­vi­ceNow is the lead­ing glob­al provider of cloud-based solutions.  The Wall Street Jour­nal has named Ser­vi­ceNow on its ​“Next Big Thing” list for two con­sec­u­tive years. They have had…

Nov 18, 2013

Swaab wel­comes new solic­i­tor to Lit­i­ga­tion Team

Swaab is delight­ed to wel­come new solic­i­tor Cate­ri­na Meduri to their high­ly regard­ed lit­i­ga­tion team. Cate­ri­na com­plet­ed a com­bined law and busi­ness degree at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy Syd­ney in 2011, and has prac­tised as a solic­i­tor since then in both lit­i­ga­tion and trans­ac­tion­al work. She has expe­ri­ence in con­trac­tu­al dis­putes, includ­ing claims…