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Tax Incen­tives for Investors in Ear­ly Stage Invest­ment Companies

“Aus­tralians are renowned for their smart ideas, but we often fail to back them and turn them into com­mer­cial real­i­ties.Only 9% of Aus­tralian small to medi­um sized busi­ness­es brought a new idea to mar­ket in 2012 – 13, com­pared to 19% in the top five OECD coun­tries.We will pro­vide new tax…

Aus­tralian Con­sumer Law trumps Choice of Law Clause

In March 2016, the Fed­er­al Court found that the refund pol­i­cy of Amer­i­can on-line gam­ing com­pa­ny Valve Cor­po­ra­tion (Valve) (incor­po­rat­ed in Wash­ing­ton State, hav­ing no Aus­tralian office or pres­ence) vio­lat­ed the Aus­tralian Con­sumer Law (ACL). Valve’s web­site stat­ed (in all caps) ​“ALL STEAM FEES ARE PAYABLE IN ADVANCE AND ARE…

Swaab Attor­neys builds on its PPP Team

Cecil­ia Rose has joined Swaab Attor­neys as spe­cial coun­sel for the Prop­er­ty Plan­ning and Projects team.Cecil­ia has exten­sive lit­i­ga­tion expe­ri­ence in the Land and Envi­ron­ment Court and Supreme Court of NSW and many years’ expe­ri­ence in nav­i­gat­ing clients through the issues they are con­front­ed with in the vast­ness of plan­ning…

Swaab hosts the world pre­mière of Disrupted

Swaab Attor­neys in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Aus­tralia-Israel Cham­ber of Com­merce host­ed the world pre­mière of Dis­rupt­ed, a Front Run­ner Pro­duc­tions film direct­ed by Adam Dostalek. The film was sup­port­ed by Gem­star Tech­nol­o­gy, Cham­ber of Com­merce & Indus­try Queens­land, Design­er Rugs, Investec and Aus­tralia-Israel Cham­ber of Commerce. Trav­el­ling from Israel to Sin­ga­pore, Dis­rupt­ed explores…

Lucy in Israel, with Aussie diamonds

Part­ner Michelle Harpur and Busi­ness Devel­op­ment and Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er Maria Mac­Na­ma­ra trav­elled to Israel as part of the Aus­tralia-Israel Cham­ber of Com­merce Trade Mis­sion with Lucy Turn­bull.Lucy in Israel, with Aussie dia­monds quotes both Michelle and Maria as the arti­cle sum­maris­es the learn­ings of the mis­sion. To read the arti­cle…

Swaab hosts Awe­some Wom­en’s Dinner 

Swaab Attor­neys, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Uber and The Chief Dis­rupter, have host­ed the third Awe­some Wom­ens’ Din­ner on 1 June, 2016.  Almost 80 women from the not-for-prof­it, busi­ness and pub­lic sec­tor came togeth­er to share ideas, expe­ri­ences and opportunities.  The evening was marked by a desire to share our tal­ent and time…

Abo­li­tion of cer­tain tax­es in NSW

In Brief After years of delays, it seems that the New South Wales Gov­ern­ment will on 1 July 2016 final­ly make good on its promis­es to abol­ish a raft of duties. Mar­ketable Secu­ri­ties Duty, Busi­ness Assets Duty and Mort­gage Duty, all pre­vi­ous­ly col­lect­ed by the Office of State Rev­enue, will no longer…

The What, How and Why of Put and Call options

In Brief Put and call options are a use­ful way of allow­ing par­ties to enter into an agree­ment to sell or acquire land at a future point in time, requir­ing min­i­mum upfront com­mit­ment. In the most sim­plis­tic of terms, rights grant­ed under a put and call option are a future right to com­pel a sell­er…

Well­ness — the key to good health in law

Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Mary Digiglio has pub­lished her lat­est blog, ​‘Well­ness — the key to good health in law’. The blog out­lines the firms approach to well­ness and the key ini­tia­tives being under­tak­en by the firm.Click here to read the blog…

War­wick Ryan’s lat­est Employ­ment blog

War­wick Ryan has pub­lished his lat­est blog, ​‘The com­plex­i­ty of employ­ment law in Aus­tralia has no future in the ​‘future”. The blog exam­ines the cur­rent laws and their place in the future of work.Click here to read War­wick­’s blog…

James Skel­ton

Exper­tiseCom­mer­cialCor­po­rateCyberFran­chis­ingIP & Technology…

A Glob­al Meet­ing of the Brands

In Brief Last month, I rep­re­sent­ed Swaab Attor­neys at the 138th Annu­al Meet­ing of the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) in Orlan­do, Flori­da – the home of famous theme parks includ­ing Dis­ney­world and Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios – busi­ness­es who clear­ly val­ue a well-devel­oped and well-pro­tect­ed brand. Over the course of the con­fer­ence it became…

The com­plex­i­ty of employ­ment law in Aus­tralia has no future in the ​‘future’

When we engage staff now we do so in an envi­ron­ment where uncer­tain­ty and dimin­ish­ing employ­ment secu­ri­ty is the new norm for all. This reflects the greater com­pe­ti­tion fac­ing busi­ness­es both from tech­nol­o­gy and the glob­alised envi­ron­ment. Yet it is inter­est­ing how so many peo­ple believe that staff can be…

Well­ness — the key to good health in law

At Swaab Attor­neys, we want to set the bench­mark for bring­ing good peo­ple togeth­er. We say it on our web­site. We want Swaab to be a work­place they not only enjoy, but which inspires great work and per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al growth. But, as Man­ag­ing Part­ner, I want to do more than talk. I under­stand…

Fred Swaab’s Obit­u­ary in the Syd­ney Morn­ing Herald

A fit­ting trib­ute to our founder pub­lished in today’s SMH. Lawyer, advis­er and cre­ative thinker; Fred Swaab led an active and ful­fill­ing life and we at Swaab Attor­neys are priv­i­leged to have had the ben­e­fit of his influ­ence and spir­it. Click here to read the obituary…