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31 July 2024

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Michael Hayter for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Michael Hayter for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2024 as a Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Insol­ven­cy & Restruc­tur­ing Lawyer – New South Wales, 2024Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Insol­ven­cy & Restruc­tur­ing Lawyer – New South Wales, 2024 click here…

13 Nov 2023

Major update in fight over Melis­sa Caddick’s $12k sneakers

Michael Hayter, the solic­i­tor act­ing for the receivers, told the court at the time that one pair of Chris­t­ian Dior sneak­ers pur­chased by Ms Cad­dick could be worth approx­i­mate­ly $12,000, if it was still in mint condition.  On Mon­day morn­ing, Mr Hayter told Jus­tice Brigitte Markovic that the receivers had come…

3 Aug 2023

Michael Hayter appeared on Chan­nel Ten’s News First seg­ment ​‘Melis­sa Cad­dick­’s Final Belong­ings Being Sold’ 3 August 2023

Michael Hayter appeared on Chan­nel Ten’s News First seg­ment ​‘Melis­sa Cad­dick­’s Final Belong­ings Being Sold.’ Melis­sa Cad­dick­’s final belong­ings, includ­ing dress­es and design­er sneak­ers, are being sold to help return some of the mon­ey to her vic­tims. The con-woman dis­ap­peared short­ly after the AFP raid­ed her Dover Heights home in Novem­ber 2020…

2 Aug 2023

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in the SMH arti­cle ​‘Forg­eries, footwear and frocks: Fight over fraud­ster Melis­sa Caddick’s last assets’

On Wednes­day, Michael Hayter — Insol­ven­cy Part­ner and the solic­i­tor rep­re­sent­ing the receivers, expressed frus­tra­tion over the refusal of her sec­ond hus­band, hair­dress­er Antho­ny Kolet­ti, to hand back some of his wife’s dresses. A col­lec­tion of 30 pairs of high-end sneak­ers col­lect­ed by Caddick’s 17-year-old son is also prov­ing to be…

2 Aug 2023

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in the Dai­ly Tele­graph arti­cle ​‘Fresh bat­tle for fraud­ster Melis­sa Caddick’s $12k shoes’ dat­ed 2/8/23

Michael Hayter, Insol­ven­cy Part­ner and the solic­i­tor act­ing for the receivers, said they were seek­ing access to Ms. Caddick’s sneak­er col­lec­tion, which was being held by her son and Mr. Koletti. “In terms of what is in dis­pute, and I know this is going to sound pet­ty, one of the mat­ters in…

2 Aug 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…

30 June 2023

Press Release | Swaab Announces Five Senior Promotions

Con­grat­u­la­tions: Daniel Miller - Senior AssociatePoo­ja Kapur - Asso­ciateJonathon Youssef — AssociateJulianne Con­ce­icao - Asso­ciateWilliam Clement — Associate“This is a great sto­ry of invest­ment and suc­cess indi­vid­u­al­ly and for the Firm. These pro­mo­tions come at an excit­ing time in our con­tin­ued growth jour­ney and as they enable us to con­tin­ue to deliv­er…

27 June 2023

Michael Hayter – Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tion & Insol­ven­cy Part­ner, was inter­viewed on last night’s ABC Four Cor­ners pro­gram — Dirty Deeds: Inside Australia’s Biggest Tax Scam

Michael Hayter – Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tion & Insol­ven­cy Part­ner, was inter­viewed on last night’s ABC Four Cor­ners pro­gram — Dirty Deeds: Inside Australia’s Biggest Tax Scam. The pro­gram looked at the infa­mous Plu­tus Pay­roll scheme and the con­spir­a­cy to defraud more than $100 mil­lion from Aus­tralian tax­pay­ers. Michael pre­vi­ous­ly cross-exam­ined Simon Anquetil…

31 May 2023

Resolv­ing Prop­er­ty Co-Own­er­ship Dis­putes: A Guide to Sec­tion 66G and Court-Appoint­ed Trustees

The pur­chase of res­i­den­tial or com­mer­cial prop­er­ty togeth­er may occur for a vari­ety of per­son­al or busi­ness rea­sons. How­ev­er, if cir­cum­stances change, one co-own­er may wish to sell or divest their inter­est while their fel­low co-own­ers don’t and are unwill­ing or unable to buy the for­mer out. If you want to…

10 May 2023

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…