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Press Release | Swaab Earns Recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, the Pre­mier Glob­al Net­work of Inde­pen­dent Law Firms

Syd­ney, NSW (11 July 2024) – Swaab, a Syd­ney-based law firm, today announced that it has been award­ed recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, the pre­mier glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent busi­ness law firms. Swaab joined Mer­i­tas in 2009 and, as a con­di­tion of its mem­ber­ship, is required to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete recer­ti­fi­ca­tion every three years based…

Reflec­tions on a Suc­cess­ful Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing – Char­lotte, North Carolina

The meet­ing offered unpar­al­leled oppor­tu­ni­ties for rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the glob­al Mer­i­tas net­work of 172 firms across more than 89 coun­tries to recon­nect with friends and col­leagues and to devel­op new relationships.The meet­ing start­ed with the sec­ond annu­al in-per­son meet­ing of the Women’s Lead­er­ship Con­gress (WLC), host­ed by the Wom­en’s Lead­er­ship…

James Skel­ton & Anna Sharpe are rep­re­sent­ing Swaab at the INTA 2023 Annu­al Meet­ing Live+ in Singapore

James Skel­ton & Anna Sharpe are rep­re­sent­ing Swaab at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) 2023 Annu­al Meet­ing Live+ which con­nects the most influ­en­tial brand pro­fes­sion­als from across the globe and indus­tries at the largest gath­er­ing of its kind. This year locat­ed at the Sands Expo & Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, 10 Bayfront Avenue, 018956…

The New World of For­eign Direct Invest­ment, April 2023

This pub­li­ca­tion offers prac­ti­cal advice and guid­ance from high­ly respect­ed inter­na­tion­al law firms about what for­eign investors can expect to encounter when invest­ing in key juris­dic­tions. His­toric atti­tudes favour­ing glob­al­iza­tion are fun­da­men­tal­ly chang­ing the world. This trend direct­ly impacts future for­eign direct invest­ment trans­ac­tions as nations place high­er pri­or­i­ties on…

Mary Digiglio is quot­ed in the arti­cle Entre­pre­neur­ial, inde­pen­dent, nim­ble: small­er firms can thrive”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 7 June 2022

Head­count is tight by choice, the deci­sion not to expand beyond Syd­ney is also by choice. Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio said, ​“We are nim­ble, we can do what­ev­er we want, there is a rel­a­tive lack of red tape and we are only account­able to each oth­er” Mary went onto say, ​“this…

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