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The New World of For­eign Direct Invest­ment, April 2023

This pub­li­ca­tion offers prac­ti­cal advice and guid­ance from high­ly respect­ed inter­na­tion­al law firms about what for­eign investors can expect to encounter when invest­ing in key juris­dic­tions. His­toric atti­tudes favour­ing glob­al­iza­tion are fun­da­men­tal­ly chang­ing the world. This trend direct­ly impacts future for­eign direct invest­ment trans­ac­tions as nations place high­er pri­or­i­ties on…

Press Release | New Spe­cial Coun­sel Appoint­ment for Swaab

Wel­come Jen­nifer Hold who on 20 March 2023, joined Helen Kow­al and the Con­struc­tion & Stra­ta team as a Spe­cial Coun­sel at Swaab. Jen­nifer is a com­mer­cial­ly mind­ed lit­i­ga­tor spe­cial­is­ing in stra­ta, prop­er­ty, and con­struc­tion dis­putes and her appoint­ment comes at a time when the group is under­go­ing a high lev­el of growth. …

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​‘Fair Work favours the boss in Covid-19 sack­ings’, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 22 April 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​‘Fair Work favours the boss in Covid-19 sack­ings’, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 22 April 2023 To read the full arti­cle click here…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​“Details of government’s pro­posed ​‘Same Job, Same Pay’ mea­sure revealed”, pub­lished in HRM Online on 24 April 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​“Details of government’s pro­posed ​‘Same Job, Same Pay’ mea­sure revealed”, pub­lished in HRM Online on 24 April 2023 To read the full arti­cle click here…

Court of Appeal clar­i­fies whether devel­op­ment stan­dards are juris­dic­tion­al pre­req­ui­sites to the grant of devel­op­ment consent

On 26 April 2023, the New South Wales Court of Appeal hand­ed down its deci­sion in El Khouri v Gemaveld Pty Ltd [2023] NSW­CA 78 which has fur­ther clar­i­fied whether com­pli­ance with a devel­op­ment stan­dard is a juris­dic­tion­al fact that must be sat­is­fied in order to enliv­en the pow­er of the Land and…

Emma Nichelsen

Exper­tiseFam­i­ly Law…

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Tony D’Agosti­no for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2023

Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Leas­ing Lawyers – New South Wales, 2023, click here…

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Swaab’s Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects team for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2023

Con­grat­u­la­tions to: Swaab’s Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects team for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Law Firms – NSW, 2023, click link…

Land & Envi­ron­ment Court Declares Devel­op­ment Con­sent Invalid Over Fail­ure to Impose Rel­e­vant Conditions

The Land and Envi­ron­ment Court has held that the fail­ure to impose rel­e­vant con­di­tions on a devel­op­ment con­sent could ren­der it invalid. Back­ground Filetron Pty Ltd (Filetron) and Inno­vate Part­ners Pty Ltd atf Ban­ton Fam­i­ly Trust 2 (Inno­vate) were the own­ers of neigh­bour­ing prop­er­ties in Maru­lan, NSW, with Filetron’s land pro­vid­ing Inno­vate…

Rose­mary Tedesco

Exper­tiseProp­er­ty …

The New World of For­eign Direct Invest­ment Book 2023

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Reme­di­a­tion Orders – What are they? And what hap­pens if you get one?

Many land­hold­ers in NSW are unaware of their oblig­a­tions in respect of land clear­ing. This is under­stand­able giv­en the num­ber of changes to land clear­ing rules over the last decade and the com­plex­i­ty of those rules.  Instead of pros­e­cut­ing peo­ple for land clear­ing offences, the Depart­ment of Plan­ning, Indus­try and Envi­ron­ment…

Nick Dale will be speak­ing at the ACC 2023 In-House Coun­sel Day in Syd­ney — 18 May 2023

Nick Dale — Part­ner, Lit­i­ga­tion & Insol­ven­cy, will be speak­ing at the upcom­ing ACC 2023 In-House Coun­sel Day in Syd­ney, on the top­ic of, ​‘Nav­i­gat­ing an uncer­tain econ­o­my: sail­ing the seas of insol­ven­cy’ Nick will be co-pre­sent­ing with Karen Petch a com­mer­cial Bar­ris­ter with spe­cial­ist expe­ri­ence in insol­ven­cy and cor­po­ra­tions law. Event Details…

Marc Bad­dams and Cather­ine Li’s arti­cle ​‘Direc­tors’ access to com­pa­ny books: Nav­i­gat­ing Statu­to­ry and com­mon law require­ments in Aus­tralia’ has been pub­lished by the Gov­er­nance Insti­tute of Australia

Marc Bad­dams and Cather­ine Li’s arti­cle ​‘Direc­tors’ access to com­pa­ny books: Nav­i­gat­ing Statu­to­ry and com­mon law require­ments in Aus­tralia’ has been pub­lished by the Gov­er­nance Insti­tute of Aus­tralia. Key ele­ments of the arti­cle include: To man­age a com­pa­ny and dis­charge their duties, direc­tors need access to com­pa­ny information.Direc­tors have statu­to­ry rights and com­mon…

Employ­ees & the Employ­er Posi­tion on the Voice in Parliament

Many sig­nif­i­cant organ­i­sa­tions, includ­ing large employ­ers, have adopt­ed a cor­po­rate posi­tion on the Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander Voice Ref­er­en­dum (Voice). It seems the vast major­i­ty of organ­i­sa­tions that have declared a posi­tion are in favour of the Voice, most recent­ly the Aus­tralian Olympic Com­mit­tee (AOC) Exec­u­tive and AOC Ath­letes’ Com­mis­sion, and…