Health­care is one of the largest sec­tors of the Aus­tralian econ­o­my and the coun­try’s biggest employ­er, mak­ing up around 13 per cent of the work­ing population.

We assist our clients across the full spec­trum of the health­care and allied health­care sec­tor. In Aus­tralia, the sec­tor is a com­pre­hen­sive sys­tem that includes both pub­lic and pri­vate operators. 

Our clients include, pri­vate hos­pi­tals, clin­ics, prac­ti­tion­ers and spe­cial­ists. This sec­tor is defined by crit­i­cal ser­vices and indus­tries that pro­mote, main­tain, mon­i­tor, and restore health to indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties. We there­fore recog­nise the mar­ket pres­sures affect­ing this sec­tor includ­ing the com­plex reg­u­la­to­ry and fund­ing envi­ron­ment, the chal­lenges of main­tain­ing clin­i­cal stan­dards, work­force and employ­ment pres­sures, and com­pe­ti­tion issues.

Our exper­tise extend to the full range of cor­po­rate, com­mer­cial, employ­ment and prop­er­ty and devel­op­ment aspects with­in the health and allied health­care sec­tor. Our expe­ri­ence encom­pass­es a wide range of hos­pi­tals, pri­vate prac­tices, com­mu­ni­ty health cen­tres, and pri­vate practices. 

Clients in this space include:

  • Pri­vate hospitals
  • Phar­ma­cies
  • Diag­nos­tic professionals
  • Occu­pa­tion­al therapists
  • Phys­io­ther­a­pists 
  • Psy­chol­o­gists
  • Den­tists
  • Pri­vate clinics
  • Vet­eri­nar­i­ans

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No mat­ter how rou­tine or com­plex the busi­ness issues you face, Mer­i­tas’ net­work of law firms is with you every step of the way. Mar­ket-lead­ing firms offer a full range of legal ser­vices, which enable you to do busi­ness any­where. Wise coun­sel and prac­ti­cal solu­tions are just a phone call or e‑mail away. Dis­cov­er the breadth and depth of the prac­tice and indus­try sec­tor capa­bil­i­ties avail­able to you through Meritas.

Publications

Cur­rent state of the con­struc­tion and infra­struc­ture market

The build­ing and con­struc­tion indus­try is sig­nif­i­cant and com­plex, with a land­scape which is con­stant­ly changing.It is cur­rent­ly char­ac­terised by: sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic invest­ment in…

Q&A with Swaab's new building and construction partner, Mark Glynn

Why did you choose Swaab?When I first met with Mary Digiglio, Swaab’s man­ag­ing part­ner and Helen Kow­al, part­ner con­struc­tion and stra­ta and…

Might a Receiv­er of a dis­tressed devel­op­ment project owe a duty of care to sub­se­quent own­ers of the lots when completed?

Upon tak­ing pos­ses­sion and con­trol of an incom­plete dis­tressed devel­op­ment asset, a secured financier will more often than not look to…

In the News

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, Pro­posed non-com­pete ban could back­fire on work­ers, firm warns”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 20 May 2025

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Pro­posed non-com­pete ban could back­fire on work­ers, firm warns”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly…

Press Release | Swaab’s James Skel­ton Appoint­ed Chair of Glob­al Emerg­ing Lead­ers Advi­so­ry Board at Mer­i­tas AGM in Mex­i­co City

In this piv­otal lead­er­ship role, James will guide ini­tia­tives to strength­en rela­tion­ships among Emerg­ing Lead­ers across Mer­i­tas’ 175 glob­al mem­ber…

Press Release | New Part­ner Appoint­ment — Mark Glynn

With over two decades in the indus­try, Mark is a recog­nised front-end con­struc­tion lawyer spe­cial­ist with­in the build­ing and con­struc­tion indus­try. Mark…