News

Aug 16, 2013

Swaab works with inter­na­tion­al net­work on tech­nol­o­gy acquisition

Swaab has worked with its Mer­i­tas inter­na­tion­al legal net­work to pro­vide advice to Plaut IT Aus­tralia (Plaut) on their acqui­si­tion of Base­lin­er, an off­shore ser­vice provider in Malaysia. Swaab part­nered with Malaysian firm Zain & Co on the trans­ac­tion which has allowed Plaut, one of the largest local­ly-owned providers of spe­cial­i­ty SAP…

Aug 16, 2013

Swaab advis­es on man­age­ment buy out 

Swaab Attor­neys part­ner Alis­tair Jaque advised Applied Fil­ters Pty Ltd (Applied Fil­ters) on the man­age­ment buy­out of its Aus­tralian busi­ness. Applied Fil­ters, which is based in Mel­bourne and has been in oper­a­tion for more than 40 years, designs and cus­tom man­u­fac­tures fil­ters for a range of indus­tries includ­ing min­ing and health. The…

Aug 15, 2013

Swaab advis­es on deal to form leader in con­struc­tion indus­try insur­ance broking

Swaab advised Aus­trali­a’s largest pri­vate­ly owned insur­ance bro­ker Cov­er­force on the acqui­si­tion of Aus­tralian insur­ance bro­ker MA Risk Solutions. Cov­er­force has acquired 100% of the Aus­tralian oper­a­tions of MA Risk Solu­tions which Cov­er­force CEO, Jim Ange­lis, says will strength­en Cov­er­force’s posi­tion as the insur­ance bro­ker of choice for the Aus­tralian con­struc­tion industry…

Jul 22, 2013

Swaab fam­i­ly lawyer on how to make divorce easier

Swaab fam­i­ly asso­ciate, Car­la San­to has sep­a­rat­ed the myths from the legal truths when it comes to divorce for the July edi­tion of Lattife.…

Jul 15, 2013

Fred meet­ing his donor fea­ture arti­cle for Lawyers Weekly

Swaab Chair­man, Fred Swaab recent­ly spoke to Lawyers Week­ly about his jour­ney back to health thanks to the kind­ness of a stranger after being diag­nosed with an aggres­sive form of leukaemia back in 2010 > READ MORE…

Jul 2, 2013

Social Media Report 2013

You may recall ear­li­er in the year we released a sur­vey on social media that asked a series of ques­tions around access­ing login details and using social media con­tent. The same sur­vey was run by our Mer­i­tas affil­i­ate firm, Kohrman Jack­son & Krantz and we have now com­piled the results of both sur­veys…

Jun 25, 2013

Swaab CEO fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on suc­ces­sion planning

Swaab CEO, Bron­wyn Pott has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly dis­cussing the impor­tance of ear­ly action when it comes to suc­ces­sion plan­ning in bou­tique firms. Bron­wyn talks about her own expe­ri­ence at Swaab in man­ag­ing a suc­cess­ful pipeline of tal­ent with­in the firm. Bron­wyn will be par­tak­ing in the Busi­ness Suc­ces­sion Round­table…

Jun 24, 2013

Matthew Hall fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on ABA IP case

Swaab IP part­ner, Matthew Hall has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly com­ment­ing on the legal action brought about by the Aus­tralian Bar Asso­ci­a­tion against bar­ris­ter Derek Minus for alleged pass­ing-off, mis­lead­ing and decep­tive con­duct regard­ing his new bar­ris­ter-list­ing web­site Aus­tralasian Bar­ris­ter Cham­bers and use of the Aust­bar domain name…

May 31, 2013

Swaab part­ner talks employ­ment taboos

Swaab part­ner Richard Ott­ley appeared on ABC Radio Nation­al on a pan­el dis­cussing work­place taboos. Richard specif­i­cal­ly talked about swear­ing at work and the impli­ca­tions it can have on employ­ees and the work­place. > Lis­ten to the full discussion…

May 24, 2013

2013 Swaab Promotions

Swaab has announced its Asso­ciate and Senior Asso­ciate pro­mo­tions for 2013. Lawyers Eliz­a­beth DeBono and Kel­ly Mar­shall have both been pro­mot­ed to the role of asso­ciate, and Tom John­ston has been pro­mot­ed to the role of Senior Asso­ciate. Both Eliz­a­beth and Tom are a part of our lit­i­ga­tion prac­tice and Kel­ly…