News

Jul 23, 2012

BRW Fea­ture — Can­cer made Swaab a stronger firm

BRW takes a close look at Swaab’s jour­ney over the last few years with the absence of founder and chair­man Fred Swaab and the estab­lished suc­ces­sion plan that facil­i­tat­ed Swaab’s con­tin­ued suc­cess.Read the full arti­cle…

Jun 27, 2012

Swaab wel­comes two new lawyers to our Lit­i­ga­tion team

Swaab wel­comes two new lawyers to our Lit­i­ga­tion team, Kris Hung and Natale Iladro. Kris has gained expe­ri­ence in a broad range of per­son­al and cor­po­rate work, includ­ing insol­ven­cy and debt recov­ery and was involved in a large scale class action Fed­er­al Court mat­ter in which he had respon­si­bil­i­ty for con­duct­ing the dai­ly…

Jun 21, 2012

Swaab ranked 34^th in BRW’s 50 Best Places to Work list 2012

Swaab Attor­neys has placed 34th in Busi­ness Review Week­ly’s revered 50 Best Places to Work annu­al list for 2012. It is the fourth con­sec­u­tive year that Swaab have made the list. Swaab was the only law firm on the list, plac­ing ahead of esteemed glob­al com­pa­nies such as Adi­das Aus­tralia and…

Jun 12, 2012

Swaab wel­comes new employ­ment lawyer

We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of new lawyer Lau­ra Sow­den to our employ­ment team. Pri­or to her arrival at Swaab, Lau­ra was Legal Case Man­ag­er in the NSW Appeals Unit at the Fed­er­al Court of Aus­tralia, where she was involved in case man­age­ment, research and pro­vid­ing analy­sis of com­plex…

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…