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Lawyers val­ued by how we serve you

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About us

Swaab Brand of Ser­vice — what we pride our­selves on…

Mer­i­tas

Mer­i­tas mem­ber firms pro­vide you with high-qual­i­ty, legal exper­tise any­where in the world. The unique qual­i­ty con­trol and rat­ing sys­tem of the Mer­i­tas alliance and its invi­ta­tion-only mem­ber­ship ensure that if you need legal ser­vices in oth­er juris­dic­tions, we can access our net­work of trust­ed col­leagues whose qual­i­ty of work…

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Lev­el 4, 20 Hunter StreetSyd­ney NSW 2000 Aus­traliaP: +61 2 9233 5544F: +61 2 9233 5400…

Pri­va­cy pol­i­cy & Cred­it report­ing policy

Pri­va­cy policyThis is Swaab’s pol­i­cy about the man­age­ment of per­son­al infor­ma­tion for the pur­pose of the Pri­va­cy Act 1988 (Cth). In this pol­i­cy ​‘per­son­al infor­ma­tion’ has the mean­ing in the Pri­va­cy Act. ​‘We’, ​‘our’ and ​‘us’ refer to Swaab, and ​‘you’ and ​‘your’ refer to the indi­vid­ual that the per­son­al infor­ma­tion…

Com­mer­cial

We can help you to decide whether to invest in a busi­ness on your own or by using a com­pa­ny, a unit trust, a dis­cre­tionary trust, a joint ven­ture or a part­ner­ship. What­ev­er struc­ture you decide is best for you, we’ll help you to doc­u­ment and imple­ment it, keep­ing a close eye on the pro­tec­tion of your…

Cor­po­rate

The key to suc­cess is hav­ing a tai­lored approach with a focus on deliv­er­ing strate­gic out­comes to meet your spe­cif­ic needs. Cost effec­tive­ly and in a prompt man­ner in line with your project time­lines. We pre­fer to iden­ti­fy mate­r­i­al issues and not over­ly com­pli­cate issues with tech­ni­cal­i­ties. We val­ue strong col­le­gial rela­tion­ships with…

Employ­ment

We focus on get­ting to know you, devel­op­ing long-term rela­tion­ships as we guide you through the ever-chang­ing legal and indus­tri­al envi­ron­ment. We assist you by draft­ing employ­ment con­tracts which min­imise expo­sure to awards, lessen the risk of claims and empha­sise clar­i­ty, flex­i­bil­i­ty and simplicity.We have act­ed for both employ­ers and employ­ees…

Estate Plan­ning & Wills

We will do our utmost to help you see estate plan­ning not as a tedious chore, but as a pos­i­tive step to take con­trol of your finan­cial affairs. We’re con­vinced that no one real­ly wants to pay more tax than they need to, or to have their fam­i­ly sub­ject­ed to delays or…

Fam­i­ly Law

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Fran­chis­ing

A key aspect of our work with you as a fran­chisor is pro­tect­ing your intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty. This includes safe­guard­ing con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion, secur­ing domain names and deter­min­ing what trade marks are to be used. The class­es in which trade marks are to be reg­is­tered also need to take into account the pos­si­bil­i­ties…

Insol­ven­cy

We can pro­vide advice to direc­tors on their duties and respon­si­bil­i­ties when com­pa­nies are fac­ing an uncer­tain future. We pro­vide prac­ti­cal guid­ance on the steps indi­vid­u­als need to take to avoid per­son­al liability.This breadth of expe­ri­ence and skill set enables us to pro­vide you with a unique and insight­ful per­spec­tive on all…

IP & Technology

Our team under­stands the chal­lenges you face. We can help struc­ture strate­gies and respons­es that add val­ue to your busi­ness, meet your com­mer­cial goals and, above all, allow you to con­tin­ue to focus on your busi­ness. We are expe­ri­enced in trade marks, copy­right patents, con­tent licens­ing, con­tent clas­si­fi­ca­tion, moral rights…

Lit­i­ga­tion

We’re renowned for our exper­tise in com­plex and dif­fi­cult court bat­tles, we are also strong nego­tia­tors when com­pro­mise is need­ed and are always con­scious of the com­mer­cial and eth­i­cal imper­a­tives for you. Our expe­ri­ence includes: cor­po­ra­tions law pro­ceed­ings, com­mer­cial dis­putes, prop­er­ty relat­ed dis­putes, con­struc­tion and engi­neer­ing lit­i­ga­tion and advice, major…

Prop­er­ty

Expe­ri­enceWe have expe­ri­ence in pro­vid­ing trans­ac­tion and advi­so­ry ser­vices to prop­er­ty own­ers, investors, land­lords, devel­op­ers, and ten­ants through­out Aus­tralia. We are sought out by lead­ing land devel­op­ers as well as gov­ern­ment agen­cies for our exper­tise. We work with our clients to devel­op, nego­ti­ate, and doc­u­ment deals.We believe ear­ly involve­ment and under­stand­ing…