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Fred meet­ing his donor fea­ture arti­cle for Lawyers Weekly

Swaab Chair­man, Fred Swaab recent­ly spoke to Lawyers Week­ly about his jour­ney back to health thanks to the kind­ness of a stranger after being diag­nosed with an aggres­sive form of leukaemia back in 2010 > READ MORE…

Swaab fam­i­ly lawyer on how to make divorce easier

Swaab fam­i­ly asso­ciate, Car­la San­to has sep­a­rat­ed the myths from the legal truths when it comes to divorce for the July edi­tion of Lattife.…

Swaab advis­es on deal to form leader in con­struc­tion indus­try insur­ance broking

Swaab advised Aus­trali­a’s largest pri­vate­ly owned insur­ance bro­ker Cov­er­force on the acqui­si­tion of Aus­tralian insur­ance bro­ker MA Risk Solutions. Cov­er­force has acquired 100% of the Aus­tralian oper­a­tions of MA Risk Solu­tions which Cov­er­force CEO, Jim Ange­lis, says will strength­en Cov­er­force’s posi­tion as the insur­ance bro­ker of choice for the Aus­tralian con­struc­tion industry…

Swaab works with inter­na­tion­al net­work on tech­nol­o­gy acquisition

Swaab has worked with its Mer­i­tas inter­na­tion­al legal net­work to pro­vide advice to Plaut IT Aus­tralia (Plaut) on their acqui­si­tion of Base­lin­er, an off­shore ser­vice provider in Malaysia. Swaab part­nered with Malaysian firm Zain & Co on the trans­ac­tion which has allowed Plaut, one of the largest local­ly-owned providers of spe­cial­i­ty SAP…

Swaab advis­es on man­age­ment buy out 

Swaab Attor­neys part­ner Alis­tair Jaque advised Applied Fil­ters Pty Ltd (Applied Fil­ters) on the man­age­ment buy­out of its Aus­tralian busi­ness. Applied Fil­ters, which is based in Mel­bourne and has been in oper­a­tion for more than 40 years, designs and cus­tom man­u­fac­tures fil­ters for a range of indus­tries includ­ing min­ing and health. The…

Swaab client takes out Tel­stra Aus­tralian Busi­ness Award

Pri­vate health insur­er, and Swaab client, health​.com​.au took out the Start-up Award at the nation­al Tel­stra Aus­tralian Busi­ness Awards last week. In just over two years, health​.com​.au has already signed up 40,000 Aus­tralians and has a pro­ject­ed annu­al rev­enue of $46 million. Swaab was instru­men­tal in assist­ing health​.com​.au with the set-up of…

Swaab IP Part­ner sheds light on Apple’s ​‘start­up’ trade mark claim

Swaab IP and tech­nol­o­gy part­ner, Tim Hem­ing­way has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly as they take a look at Apple’s lat­est trade mark appli­ca­tion for the pop­u­lar term ​‘start­up’. The intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and tech­nol­o­gy team at Swaab have exten­sive expe­ri­ence in the area of trade marks includ­ing reg­is­tra­tion, infringe­ment, valid­i­ty and…

Swaab Update: Staff Mobil­i­ty and Data Protection

We recent­ly sur­veyed a sam­ple of our client base across a num­ber of indus­tries on their organ­i­sa­tions’ atti­tudes towards staff mobil­i­ty and alter­na­tive work­ing arrange­ments. With so many of an organisation’s staff work­ing remote­ly, we were keen to dis­cov­er how they pro­tect the pri­va­cy, con­fi­den­tial­i­ty and main­tain the secu­ri­ty of their organisation’s…

Swaab announces senior asso­ciate promotion

Swaab is pleased to announce the pro­mo­tion of Georgina King to the role of Senior Asso­ciate in their esteemed lit­i­ga­tion team. Georgina’s excel­lent legal skills cou­pled with her desire to pro­vide excep­tion­al client ser­vice have seen her become an invalu­able part of the lit­i­ga­tion group. Swaab CEO Bron­wyn Pott prais­es Georgina’s…

Swaab wel­comes new grad­u­ate lawyer

Swaab is delight­ed to wel­come Tim Hard­wick as a grad­u­ate solic­i­tor in our lit­i­ga­tion team. Tim is the first in a series of recent grad­u­ate hires under­tak­en by Swaab. Pri­or to his arrival at Swaab, Tim has gained expe­ri­ence in a broad range of cor­po­rate and pri­vate client work, includ­ing suc­ces­sion act claims, wills…

Swaab wel­comes new solic­i­tor to Lit­i­ga­tion Team

Swaab is delight­ed to wel­come new solic­i­tor Cate­ri­na Meduri to their high­ly regard­ed lit­i­ga­tion team. Cate­ri­na com­plet­ed a com­bined law and busi­ness degree at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy Syd­ney in 2011, and has prac­tised as a solic­i­tor since then in both lit­i­ga­tion and trans­ac­tion­al work. She has expe­ri­ence in con­trac­tu­al dis­putes, includ­ing claims…

Swaab assists UXC with two strate­gic acquisitions

Swaab has advised UXC Lim­it­ed [UXC] on the acqui­si­tion of Key­stone Man­age­ment Solu­tions, Aus­trali­a’s largest reseller and ser­vices provider for Ser­vi­ceNow. Ser­vi­ceNow is the lead­ing glob­al provider of cloud-based solutions.  The Wall Street Jour­nal has named Ser­vi­ceNow on its ​“Next Big Thing” list for two con­sec­u­tive years. They have had…

Swaab appoints new Man­ag­ing Partner

Today Swaab announced that it has returned to a man­ag­ing part­ner lead­er­ship struc­ture and has appoint­ed Swaab part­ner Mary Digiglio to take on the role. As Swaab’s prop­er­ty prac­tice group leader, Mary is an inte­gral part of the fir­m’s vision, ethos, val­ues and cul­ture. At just 38, Mary has built a suc­cess­ful prac­tice…

Lawyers Week­ly fea­tures Swaab’s appoint­ment of new part­ner Paul Brennan

Swaab’s appoint­ment of new part­ner Paul Bren­nan has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly. Join­ing the firm on April 28, Paul will lead Swaab’s new con­struc­tion and engi­neer­ing group. Read the article…

Swaab employ­ment part­ner fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on employ­ee underpayments

Swaab employ­ment part­ner, War­wick Ryan has fea­tured in a Smart­Com­pa­ny arti­cle cov­er­ing alleged under­pay­ment of 10 abat­toir work­ers in region­al NSW. In the arti­cle War­wick gives his take on the case and rea­sons why under­pay­ment can occur in small­er businesses. Read the article…