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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…

18 May 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…

20 Apr 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…

21 Dec 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…

21 July 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…

20 July 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…

10 June 2022

Mary Digiglio is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​“Entre­pre­neur­ial, inde­pen­dent, nim­ble: small­er firms can thrive”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 7 June 2022

Head­count is tight by choice, the deci­sion not to expand beyond Syd­ney is also by choice. Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio said, ​“We are nim­ble, we can do what­ev­er we want, there is a rel­a­tive lack of red tape and we are only account­able to each oth­er” Mary went onto say, ​“this…

9 June 2022

Swaab ranked amongst the high­est on part­ner­ship gen­der equality

The sur­vey high­light­ed the num­ber of female equi­ty part­ners in Aus­tralian law firms still hov­er around on aver­age 27 per cent. Swaab’s Man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio said,​“We have been able to achieve this bal­ance of gen­der equi­ty organ­i­cal­ly, with­out the need for quo­tas using a mer­it based sys­tem that recog­nis­es an…

9 May 2022

James Skel­ton is rep­re­sent­ing Swaab at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) 2022 Annu­al Meet­ing | Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

James Skel­ton is hav­ing a fan­tas­tic time in Wash­ing­ton DC at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) 2022 Annu­al Meet­ing meet­ing, catch­ing up with old and new intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty col­leagues on behalf of Swaab. At the halfway point now with plen­ty of inter­est­ing ses­sions and catch ups still ahead…

19 Apr 2022

2022 Mer­i­tas Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works: The Elite (Legal Net­work) in Glob­al Mar­ket Lead­ers Legal Rankings

Glob­al Guide Rankings The Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works: The Elite (Legal Net­work) rank­ings table has been designed to pro­vide the most in-depth insights and reviews of the top ranked lawyers and law firms. The firms includ­ed in the rank­ings have been rec­om­mend­ed by in-house coun­sel, oth­er third-par­ty experts  About Mer­i­tas Mer­i­tas is…