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Swaab announces the pro­mo­tion of Esther Khoo to Senior Associate

The pro­mo­tion recog­nis­es Esther’s excel­lent legal skills cou­pled with his desire to pro­vide excep­tion­al client ser­vice. As an invalu­able part of our Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tion team we look for­ward to recog­nis­ing Esther as she con­tin­ues to devel­op and grow as a senior practitioner. Con­grat­u­la­tions Esther…

Con­grat­u­la­tions Eric Ziehlke on your retirement

This month marks the retire­ment of Eric Ziehlke, Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Part­ner. With a career span­ning over 18 years’ as an IP lawyer, Eric joined Swaab in 2015, head­ing up our IP team with the assis­tance of James Skel­ton and work­ing close­ly with Angela Har­vey and John Trinh.“Eric, will be sad­ly missed by…

Swaab announces the appoint­ment of Michael Hayter — Partner

Michael has prac­ticed as a Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tion lawyer for over 30 years with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on com­mer­cial dis­putes and insol­ven­cy mat­ters. He has con­sis­tent­ly been ranked by inde­pen­dent pub­li­ca­tions as one of the lead­ing lawyers in New South Wales in the areas of com­mer­cial lit­i­ga­tion and insol­ven­cy. Michael’s prac­tice also involves under­tak­ing…

Swaab announces the appoint­ment of Ger­ald Carides — Partner

Ger­ald has prac­ticed as a com­mer­cial trans­ac­tion­al lawyer for over 16 years. Ger­ald has exten­sive bank­ing, finance and secu­ri­ties enforce­ment expe­ri­ence. He has advised clients in com­plex and sig­nif­i­cant-val­ue acqui­si­tions across a wide range of indus­try sec­tors includ­ing health­care, real estate, infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy and finance. …

Swaab announces the appoint­ment of Suzi Sto­janovs­ki — Senior Associate

Suzi is an expe­ri­enced Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tor with exten­sive expe­ri­ence in bank­ing and finance lit­i­ga­tion, cor­po­ra­tions law, secu­ri­ties enforce­ment, insol­ven­cy and con­trac­tu­al disputes. …

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, dis­cussed manda­to­ry work­place Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion with Brooke Corte on the Mon­ey News pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC on 5 July 2021:

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, dis­cussed manda­to­ry work­place Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion with Brooke Corte on the Mon­ey News pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC on 5 July 2021: Click to lis­ten to the pod­cast click here.…

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, is quot­ed in the Lawyers Week­ly arti­cle, ​‘Ensur­ing your take-home pay doesn’t decrease’, pub­lished on 6 July 2021:

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment part­ner, is quot­ed in the Lawyers Week­ly arti­cle, ​‘Ensur­ing your take-home pay doesn’t decrease’, pub­lished on 6 July 2021: Click to read the arti­cle here…

Press Release | A new team joins Swaab

These appoint­ments mean the addi­tion of four new staff includ­ing two part­ners, which brings Swaab’s total part­ner­ship num­bers to 17 locat­ed in Sydney. Swaab was recent­ly fea­tured in The Aus­tralian’s 2021 legal part­ner­ship sur­vey, con­duct­ed by Eaton Strat­e­gy + Search, in which it was revealed as expe­ri­enc­ing the strongest part­ner­ship growth…

Swaab fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly | Swaab adds team from Gillis Delaney

Swaab has wel­comed a team of four, includ­ing two part­ners, from fel­low SME prac­tice Gillis Delaney. This month, Swaab has wel­comed four pro­fes­sion­als – part­ners Michael Hayter and Ger­ald Carides, senior asso­ciate Suzi Sto­janovs­ki and con­veyancer and para­le­gal Renee Hinkel­bein – to the firm. All four have come from Gillis Delaney. The addi­tion…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the HRM Online arti­cle, ​“Can­cer patient fired for ask­ing to take leave”, pub­lished on 8 July 2021

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the HRM Online arti­cle, ​“Can­cer patient fired for ask­ing to take leave”, pub­lished on 8 July 2021. Click to read the full here …

The impli­ca­tions of imply­ing a term of rea­son­able notice

In a deci­sion that demon­strates the need for employ­ment con­tracts to clear­ly spec­i­fy a term for notice of ter­mi­na­tion, Judge Obradovic in the Fed­er­al Cir­cuit Court case, McAl­is­ter v Yara Aus­tralia Pty Ltd [2021] FCCA 1409, has implied a term of 9 months’ notice into an employ­ee’s employ­ment contract. Back­ground The appli­cant had worked for her employ­er…

Manda­to­ry Work­place Vac­ci­na­tion: Reflec­tions on Recent Developments

With the cur­rent trou­bling Covid-19 clus­ter in NSW, and a deep con­cern about the rel­a­tive­ly low rates of vac­ci­na­tion of staff in some indus­tries which deal with the sick and the vul­ner­a­ble, most notably aged care, the issue of manda­to­ry work­place vac­ci­na­tion has gone from being an inter­est­ing the­o­ret­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tion to…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the OHS Alert,​“WHS lawyer looks at work­place COVID vac­cine poli­cies as NSW tight­ens work and test­ing rules”, pub­lished on 14 July 2021

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the OHS Alert,​“WHS lawyer looks at work­place COVID vac­cine poli­cies as NSW tight­ens work and test­ing rules”, pub­lished on 14 July 2021  Click to read the full here…

Announce­ment | Swaab has been award­ed recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent law firms

Mer­i­tas is the only law firm alliance with an estab­lished and com­pre­hen­sive means of mon­i­tor­ing the qual­i­ty of its mem­ber firms, a process that saves clients’ time val­i­dat­ing law firm cre­den­tials and expe­ri­ence. Mer­i­tas mem­ber­ship is selec­tive and by invi­ta­tion only. Firms are reg­u­lar­ly assessed and recer­ti­fied for the breadth of…

Update on Statu­to­ry Demands – changes to min­i­mum thresh­old and (for some) time to comply

On 1 July 2021, Sched­ule 1 to the Cor­po­ra­tions Amend­ment (Statu­to­ry Min­i­mum) Reg­u­la­tions 2021 (Cth) (Reg­u­la­tions) came into force, increas­ing the min­i­mum amount which a debtor com­pa­ny must owe a cred­i­tor before that cred­i­tor can issue a statu­to­ry demand to the debtor (Statu­to­ry Min­i­mum) and chang­ing, for some debtors, the peri­od in which debtors can…