News

Jul 15, 2021

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…

Jul 14, 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

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…

Jul 9, 2021

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 …

Jul 8, 2021

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…

Jul 6, 2021

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…

Jul 6, 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:

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…

Jul 6, 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:

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.…

Jul 6, 2021

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. …

Jul 6, 2021

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. …

Jul 6, 2021

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…