News

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…

Nov 17, 2011

Swaab in The Aus­tralian Finan­cial Review arti­cle on AusLSA 2^nd Envi­ron­men­tal Con­sump­tion Report

This arti­cle focus­es on the find­ings of the 2010 – 2011 Envi­ron­men­tal Con­sump­tion Report by the Aus­tralian Legal Sec­tor Alliance (AusLSA), in par­tic­u­lar the increase in emis­sions report­ed by mem­ber firms, attrib­ut­able to increas­es in air trav­el. Swaab Attor­neys is cit­ed as a report­ing firm…

Sep 26, 2011

Swaab Attor­neys builds on prop­er­ty team

Tony D’Agostino has joined Swaab Attor­neys as a part­ner, expand­ing the fir­m’s capa­bil­i­ty in their prop­er­ty team. Tony has act­ed for a range of large cor­po­ra­tions and pri­vate clients and has built a wealth of knowl­edge in prop­er­ty invest­ment and devel­op­ment hav­ing worked for some of the major play­ers in this space. Tony’s prac­tice focus­es…

Sep 16, 2011

CEO Bron­wyn Pott receives life­time mem­ber­ship to ALPMA

We’re proud to announce that our fear­less leader Bron­wyn Pott has received a life­time mem­ber­ship to the Aus­tralia Legal Prac­tice Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion, an hon­or bestowed on only two oth­er peo­ple in Aus­tralia. Con­grat­u­la­tions Bron…

Sep 9, 2011

Swaab wel­comes new cor­po­rate lawyer and fam­i­ly lawyer

We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of 2 new lawyers to our Swaab team. Andrew Drap­er has joined Swaab as a senior asso­ciate, expand­ing the fir­m’s capa­bil­i­ty in our cor­po­rate and com­mer­cial team. Andrew has act­ed for a range of large cor­po­ra­tions and has built a wealth of knowl­edge in the avi­a­tion indus­try hav­ing…

Jul 21, 2011

Swaab in Busi­ness Review Weekly

Swaab Attor­neys Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Fred Swaab dis­cuss­es the firms inter­na­tion­al alliance with Meritas…

Jul 1, 2011

Swaab Attor­neys announce new senior asso­ciates and associate

We are very pleased to announce Marc Bad­dams and Hec­tor West have been pro­mot­ed to Senior Asso­ciate and Georgina King has been pro­mot­ed to Asso­ciate. We’d like to con­grat­u­late them on the con­tri­bu­tion they make to Swaab and, more impor­tant­ly, to our clients…