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Nov 25, 2020

Macarthur Devel­op­ments wins 2020 Devel­op­ment Excel­lence Award | Mas­ter­planned Com­mu­ni­ty Devel­op­ment – Emer­ald Hills Estate

Urban Task­force Chief Exec­u­tive, Tom For­rest said the Devel­op­ment Excel­lence Awards have clear­ly demon­strat­ed the prop­er­ty devel­op­ment industry’s pas­sion and com­mit­ment for the sus­tain­able growth Australia’s cities. Man­ag­ing Part­ner — Mary Digiglio, said this was a well deserved win for our client, Macarthur Devel­op­ments and is a tes­ta­ment to every­one’s skill, deter­mi­na­tion and…

Oct 9, 2020

Mary Digiglio is speak­ing at the vir­tu­al #ACCAM20, the world’s largest gath­er­ing of in-house counsel.

Mary Digiglio, Man­ag­ing Part­ner Swaab along with David Field, Chief Legal Coun­sel Canon Ocea­nia and Greg de Moore, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try West­mead Hos­pi­tal are excit­ed to be pre­sent­ing on fos­ter­ing #well­ness in a law depart­ment envi­ron­ment at #ACCAM20 the world’s largest gath­er­ing of in-house coun­sel. On Wednes­day, Octo­ber 14, 4.30pm…

Oct 8, 2020

Mer­i­tas Week 2020 | Young Lawyer Advi­so­ry Board – Well­be­ing webi­nar for Mer­i­tas firms

In this ses­sion Mer­i­tas par­tic­i­pants will hear advice from senior lawyers from three dif­fer­ent coun­tries on how they han­dled com­pet­ing inter­ests ear­ly in their careers. They will also hear from an exec­u­tive coach that reg­u­lar­ly coach­es lawyers and oth­er pro­fes­sion­als on such issues. There will also be an oppor­tu­ni­ty to…

Sep 24, 2020

COVID-19 | Ten­an­cy Update

On 23 Sep­tem­ber 2020, the NSW Gov­ern­ment announced the Retail and oth­er Com­mer­cial Leas­es (COVID-19) Reg­u­la­tion (Reg­u­la­tion) will be extend­ed until 31 Decem­ber 2020. The Reg­u­la­tion, which was set to expire on 25 Octo­ber 2020, gives effect to the Nation­al Cab­i­net Manda­to­ry Code of Con­duct – SME Com­mer­cial Leas­ing Prin­ci­ples Dur­ing…

Sep 21, 2020

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients

Client feed­back and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment are impor­tant to us at Swaab and form a key com­po­nent of our Swaab Brand of Service.  The key find­ings included: we exceed­ed your expec­ta­tions when it comes to our performance you find us extreme­ly easy to work with, and  you are like­ly to rec­om­mend your key con­tact and…

Jul 17, 2020

Press Release: Mer­i­tas Wel­comes DMAW Lawyers, Ade­laide, to the Membership

DMAW Lawyers will become an inte­gral part of the Aus­tralia & New Zealand net­work of firms as well as the world­wide net­work of 191 law firms locat­ed across 96 countries. This alliance will enhance DMAW Lawyers’ abil­i­ty to sup­port South Aus­tralian busi­ness inter­ests both nation­al­ly and internationally. DMAW’s Lawyer’s Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Mr…

Jun 19, 2020

Press Release – Swaab and Hard­ings Lawyers integration

Both Swaab and Hard­ings Lawyers share sev­er­al core areas of exper­tise and indus­try sec­tor expe­ri­ence, which inspired the integration. “This project was dri­ven by a desire to fur­ther devel­op our domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al legal ser­vice offer­ing through an align­ment which make sense strate­gi­cal­ly and feels good cul­tur­al­ly. Hard­ings Lawyers and Swaab…

Jun 16, 2020

Spe­cial Announce­ment | we’re mov­ing to lev­el 4

Wel­come to the ​‘Sky Level’Since ear­ly 2020, we have been under­tak­ing our office refur­bish­ment project with the aim to pro­vide an enhanced client ser­vice expe­ri­ence and to facil­i­tate the growth of our firm. It was impor­tant to us that our new offices reflect our val­ues, pro­mote our com­mit­ment to the Swaab Brand…

May 6, 2020

COVID-19 Update | Omnibus (Emer­gency Mea­sures) (Com­mer­cial Leas­es and Licences) Reg­u­la­tions | 5 May 2020

On 1 May 2020 Vic­to­ria passed the COVID-19 Omnibus (Emer­gency Mea­sures) (Com­mer­cial Leas­es and Licences) Reg­u­la­tions 2020 (Reg­u­la­tions) to imple­ment the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of laws relat­ing to cer­tain retail leas­es and non-retail com­mer­cial leas­es and licences.Code not incorporatedDespite the Nation­al Cab­i­net Manda­to­ry Code of Con­duct — SME Com­mer­cial Leas­ing Prin­ci­ples dur­ing COVID-19 (Code)…

Apr 27, 2020

COVID-19 | Retail and Oth­er Com­mer­cial Leas­es (COVID-19) Reg­u­la­tion 2020

Below is a sum­ma­ry of the Regulation. What does it do? The object of the Reg­u­la­tion is to give effect to the Code and par­tic­u­lar­ly to: pro­hib­it and reg­u­late the usu­al enforce­ment rights of land­lords dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic peri­od; andrequire land­lords and ten­ants to rene­go­ti­ate the rent and oth­er terms of retail, com­mer­cial and…