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May 6, 2025

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 firms and enhance resources that sup­port a net­work of more than 9,000 lawyers worldwide.James joins the lead­er­ship team alongside:Mol­ly Cam­po­long – Chair-Elect (Robin­son Gray, Colum­bia, South Car­oli­na, USA)Jem­ma For­rest – Sec­re­tary (Ander­son Strath­ern, Glas­gow…

Apr 9, 2025

Press Release | New Asso­ciate Appoint­ment — Hugo Mahony

“As we con­tin­ue to expand in line with our strate­gic vision, Hugo’s deep knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence in Com­mer­cial, Cor­po­rate, IP & Tech­nol­o­gy law posi­tions him per­fect­ly with­in our team. His appoint­ment strength­ens our abil­i­ty to meet our client needs with excel­lence, ensur­ing we main­tain our hall­mark ded­i­ca­tion and Swaab Brand of…

Jul 11, 2024

Press Release | Swaab Earns Recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, the Pre­mier Glob­al Net­work of Inde­pen­dent Law Firms

Syd­ney, NSW (11 July 2024) – Swaab, a Syd­ney-based law firm, today announced that it has been award­ed recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, the pre­mier glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent busi­ness law firms. Swaab joined Mer­i­tas in 2009 and, as a con­di­tion of its mem­ber­ship, is required to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete recer­ti­fi­ca­tion every three years based…

Jun 28, 2024

Reflec­tions on a Suc­cess­ful Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing – Char­lotte, North Carolina

The meet­ing offered unpar­al­leled oppor­tu­ni­ties for rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the glob­al Mer­i­tas net­work of 172 firms across more than 89 coun­tries to recon­nect with friends and col­leagues and to devel­op new relationships.The meet­ing start­ed with the sec­ond annu­al in-per­son meet­ing of the Women’s Lead­er­ship Con­gress (WLC), host­ed by the Wom­en’s Lead­er­ship…

Aug 2, 2023

Women in Part­ner­ship | The Australian’s Legal Part­ner­ship Survey

The Australian’s Legal Part­ner­ship Sur­vey, released on Tues­day, reveals the num­ber of female lawyers is slow­ly creep­ing upwards, with women rep­re­sent­ing 33 per­cent of part­ners (up 2 per­cent on last year), 61 per­cent of grad­u­ates (up 0.1 per­cent), and 29 per­cent of equi­ty part­ners (up 2 per­cent). With 50% of women as…

May 18, 2023

James Skel­ton & Anna Sharpe are rep­re­sent­ing Swaab at the INTA 2023 Annu­al Meet­ing Live+ in Singapore

James Skel­ton & Anna Sharpe are rep­re­sent­ing Swaab at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) 2023 Annu­al Meet­ing Live+ which con­nects the most influ­en­tial brand pro­fes­sion­als from across the globe and indus­tries at the largest gath­er­ing of its kind. This year locat­ed at the Sands Expo & Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, 10 Bayfront Avenue, 018956…

Apr 20, 2023

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…

Dec 21, 2022

Press Release | New Senior Pro­mo­tions for Swaab

“It is tru­ly reward­ing to be able to recog­nise the fol­low­ing home grown tal­ent with well-deserved promotions: James Skel­ton appoint­ed to the posi­tion of Part­ner of Swaab. James start­ed at Swaab as a grad­u­ate in March 2015. Through his loy­al­ty, his com­mit­ment and hard work, James has become a trust­ed advi­sor to his…

Jul 21, 2022

2023 Swaab Grad­u­ate Pro­gram | Announcement

Vis­it our web­site and social media pages for infor­ma­tion on how to apply, details about the pro­gram and to hear from our 2022 Graduates.  At Swaab you will work close­ly with our part­ners and lawyers, expos­ing you to a wide range of client mat­ters, teams and dif­fer­ent prac­tice areas. Our Grad­u­ate Pro­gram…

Jul 20, 2022

2022 Mer­i­tas Legal Guides for Busi­ness Invest­ment and Expan­sion in Aus­tralia and New Zealand

The glob­al net­work of Mer­i­tas firms offers clients the abil­i­ty to access high-qual­i­ty legal ser­vices through­out Aus­tralia, New Zealand and world­wide. With over 7,600 busi­ness lawyers in over 240 cities, Mer­i­tas gives your com­pa­ny access to local coun­sel around the world. We hope the­ses Guides for Busi­ness Invest­ment and Expan­sion…