Search

Swaab Alum­ni Newslet­ter | June 2024

We cel­e­brat­ed Three New Appoint­ments for Swaab, Five Senior Pro­mo­tions, Con­struc­tion & Stra­ta team | Wines tast­ing, Tour de Cure #Snow­ball, 2024 Career Opportunities…

What to do when a loved one pass­es away

When some­body close to you dies, it can be a very chal­leng­ing time. While deal­ing with the grief itself can seem over­whelm­ing, there is also a list of admin­is­tra­tive tasks to be tak­en care of – with some things need­ing to be done at very short notice after a per­son pass­es away.This arti­cle looks…

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Is Aus­tralia set to fol­low the US in ban­ning non-com­petes?”, pub­lished in HR Leader and Lawyers Week­ly on 2 August 2024

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Is Aus­tralia set to fol­low the US in ban­ning non-com­petes?”, pub­lished in HR Leader and Lawyers Week­ly on 2 August 2024To read these full arti­cles please click here for HR Leader, or click here for Lawyers Weekly…

Cur­rent opportunities

…

Michael Byrnes | ACC- Crack­ing the Code: Mas­ter­ing Aus­tralian Employ­ment Leg­is­la­tion Changes

Get ready to nav­i­gate the evolv­ing land­scape of Aus­tralian employ­ment leg­is­la­tion with ACC Aus­tralia, along­side part­ners Michael Byrnes - Swaab, Bak­er McKen­zie, and Source.In today’s dynam­ic legal envi­ron­ment, stay­ing ahead is cru­cial. Host­ed by Lori Mid­dle­hurst, this half day event promis­es deep insights into the lat­est leg­isla­tive shifts, fos­ter­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between legal and HR…

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in the Michael Pryde bank­rupt­cy hear­ing arti­cle pub­lished in The Dai­ly Tele­graph, 8 August 2024

Sim­ply The Bets boss Michael Pryde was grilled in bank­rupt­cy hear­ing over ​‘pri­ori­tised’ pay­ments. The bank­rupt fraud­ster behind one of Sydney’s most high-pro­file bet­ting scams has been accused of using mis­ap­pro­pri­at­ed funds to repay hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars owed to fam­i­ly and friends instead of jilt­ed clients, a court has heard.Court doc­u­ments…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“5 ways employ­ers could acci­den­tal­ly under­pay their employ­ees”, pub­lished in HRM Online on 9 August 2024

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“5 ways employ­ers could acci­den­tal­ly under­pay their employ­ees”, pub­lished in HRM Online on 9 August 2024 To read the full arti­cle click here…

Stra­ta

We pro­vide advice in the fol­low­ing areas:Gen­er­al stra­ta advice includ­ing:prepa­ra­tion of com­mon prop­er­ty rights by-laws and gen­er­al man­age­ment by-lawspre­lim­i­nary advice as to poten­tial claims under the rel­e­vant legislationprepa­ra­tion and advice in rela­tion to build­ing man­age­ment or facil­i­ties ser­vices man­age­ment state­ments and stra­ta man­age­ment statementsprepa­ra­tion and advice in rela­tion to clean­ing agree­ments, concierge agree­ments…

$4m win for fraud­ster Melis­sa Caddick’s victims

The vic­tims of fraud­ster Melis­sa Cad­dick will be paid more than $4m after the Fed­er­al Court of Aus­tralia approved the biggest dis­tri­b­u­tion yet to those swin­dled by her dodgy invest­ment scheme.A spe­cial thanks goes to Jones Part­ners, Bruce Glee­son, Daniel Soire, Mar­tin Vu and Vanes­sa Duck­worth who entrust­ed Michael Hayter and the…

When it comes to wills, the dress code is formal

Learn­ings from Kemp v Find­lay [2024] NSWSC 902Will for­mal­i­tiesSec­tion 6 of the Suc­ces­sion Act 2006 (NSW) (the Act) shows us how a will should be exe­cut­ed. A valid will must be in writ­ing and signed by the tes­ta­tor, in the pres­ence of two or more wit­ness­es, with at least two of those wit­ness­es to attest…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Are busi­ness­es ready for casu­al con­ver­sions?”, pub­lished in HR Leader on 20 August 2024

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Are busi­ness­es ready for casu­al con­ver­sions?”, pub­lished in HR Leader on 20 August 2024To read the full arti­cle click here…

5 claus­es to look out for in your fran­chise agree­ment – they might be unfair

Changes to the unfair con­tract terms régime are in effect, and enter­ing into any fran­chise agree­ment con­tain­ing an unfair con­tact term or rely­ing on an unfair con­tract term in a fran­chise agree­ment could come with sig­nif­i­cant penal­ties for fran­chisors. Both fran­chisors and fran­chisees should review their fran­chise agree­ments to ensure they do…

What are you actu­al­ly buy­ing into when you buy a Stra­ta Unit?

It is impor­tant to under­stand what you are respon­si­ble for and what you actu­al­ly own when look­ing at buy­ing into stra­ta. You might be surprised.Usu­al­ly, when pur­chas­ing an indi­vid­ual lot in a stra­ta scheme, you are only buy­ing the air­space of a lot, the inter­nal sur­faces of walls, floors, ceil­ings includ­ing inter­nal walls…

Kathryn Schultz

Exper­tiseCom­mer­cialCor­po­rate…

Press Release | New Appoint­ment for Swaab

Wel­come, Kathryn Schultz - Asso­ciate, Prop­er­ty & Commercial. “Our firm con­tin­ues to grow in line with our strate­gic plan and with Kathryn’s exten­sive expe­ri­ence and broad range of exper­tise in com­mer­cial trans­ac­tions, busi­ness and share sales, inter­nal reor­gan­i­sa­tions and inte­gra­tions, and diverse reg­u­la­to­ry advice it makes her an ide­al fit for Swaab and…