News

May 4, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on how glob­al asso­ci­a­tions work

Fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly, Swaab intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty part­ner Matthew Hall dis­cuss­es the ben­e­fits of being a part of glob­al legal net­work, Mer­i­tas. With Mer­i­tas’s invi­ta­tion-only mem­ber­ship and strict qual­i­ty con­trols, it pro­vides our clients with access to an inter­na­tion­al net­work of trust­ed colleagues…

Apr 13, 2012

Swaab appoint new lawyer to cor­po­rate and com­mer­cial team

Swaab wel­comes new lawyer Kel­ly Mar­shall to our cor­po­rate and com­mer­cial team. Kel­ly is a com­mer­cial and cor­po­rate advi­so­ry lawyer with spe­cial­ist indus­try focus in Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty, and the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, Media and Tech­nol­o­gy sec­tor. Kel­ly has advised pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tor clients on a wide range of com­mer­cial and cor­po­rate issues includ­ing IP…

Mar 19, 2012

Swaab Fea­tured in BRW on Win­ning Best NSW Firm

Swaab was fea­tured in BRW on the dom­i­nance of nation­al firms in this year’s BRW/​Beaton Client Choice Awards short­lists for best firm. Swaab is high­light­ed as an excep­tion to this trend due to our unique sin­gle-office cul­ture which is still able to effec­tive­ly ser­vice our clien­t’s nation­al needs…

Mar 15, 2012

Swaab takes out two 2012 BRW Client Choice Awards

Swaab has been named Best Aus­tralian Law Firm (rev­enue less than $50 mil­lion) and Best NSW Firm at the 2012 BRW Client Choice Awards, held last night in Sydney. This is Swaab’s third con­sec­u­tive win in the Best Aus­tralian Law Firm (rev­enue less than $50 mil­lion) cat­e­go­ry, dis­play­ing the excep­tion­al con­sis­ten­cy…

Mar 5, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in ALB on Form­Bay’s new app

Swaab was fea­tured in ALB on our involve­ment with client Form­Bay’s new appli­ca­tion which aims to speed up doc­u­ment approval time. Swaab has facil­i­tat­ed the devel­op­ment and tri­al of the new appli­ca­tion which will allow lawyers to sign doc­u­ments elec­tron­i­cal­ly. Swaab senior asso­ciate Nao­mi Mes­sen­ger com­ment­ed on our clients desire…

Feb 9, 2012

Swaab in The Aus­tralian on inter­na­tion­al mergers

Swaab was fea­tured in The Aus­tralian in an arti­cle look­ing at inbound over­seas firms and inter­na­tion­al merg­ers.In this arti­cle, Fred Swaab pro­vides his out­look on the Aus­tralian legal pro­fes­sion as an increas­ing num­ber of firms move towards glob­al inte­gra­tion. Fred high­lights Swaab’s advan­ta­geous strat­e­gy to grow our legal net­work by…

Feb 9, 2012

Swaab final­ist in 2012 BRW Client Choice Awards

Swaab Attor­neys have been nom­i­nat­ed as a final­ist in the 2012 BRW Client Choice Awards for the fourth con­sec­u­tive year. Swaab are up for both Best Aus­tralian Law Firm (rev­enue less than $50 mil­lion) and Best NSW Firm, for which we are the only con­tend­ing law firm. BRW client ser­vice sur­vey is…

Feb 7, 2012

Swaab Wel­comes New Fam­i­ly Law Solicitor

Han­nah Barnes has joined Swaab Attor­neys as a Solic­i­tor, in our high­ly regard­ed fam­i­ly law team. Han­nah has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in com­plex par­ent­ing and finan­cial mat­ters. Pri­or to her arrival at Swaab, Han­nah’s roles includ­ed Legal Asso­ciate at the Fam­i­ly Court of Aus­tralia and pri­or to that Han­nah was Deputy Asso­ciate to…

Dec 14, 2011

Arrival of Tim Hem­ing­way as a part­ner to Swaab in The Australian

The Aus­tralian reports on Swaabs excit­ing announce­ment, the arrival of Tim Hem­ing­way as a part­ner to Swaab and the Cor­po­rate and Com­mer­cial Group. Tim’s prac­tice focus­es on IT and intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty, logis­tics and trans­port, cor­po­rate advi­so­ry and merg­ers and acquisitions…

Nov 17, 2011

Swaab in Lawyers Week­ly arti­cle on AusLSA 2^nd Envi­ron­men­tal Con­sump­tion Report

This arti­cle high­lights the results of the Aus­tralian Legal Sec­tor Alliances’ (AusLSA) sec­ond Envi­ron­men­tal Con­sump­tion Report, released in Novem­ber 2011. In the arti­cle Swaab is recog­nised for their excep­tion­al achieve­ment, a 27 per cent reduc­tion in their ener­gy footprint. Swaab CEO and AusLSA board mem­ber, Bron­wyn Pott dis­cuss­es Swaabs’ effec­tive sus­tain­abil­i­ty…