News

1 Sept 2021

Lawyers Week­ly | Swaab Grows Partnership

Nicholas Dale will come on board as a part­ner from 6 Sep­tem­ber, bring­ing with him over 27 years’ expe­ri­ence in lit­i­ga­tion and insol­ven­cy matters. Com­ment­ing on the move, Swaab man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio described the appoint­ment of Mr Dale as sig­nif­i­cant and that comes in line with the demand the firm’s lit­i­ga­tion and insol­ven­cy…

27 Aug 2021

Press Release | New Part­ner Appoint­ment — Nicholas Dale

“This is an excit­ing time for Swaab and our Lit­i­ga­tion and Insol­ven­cy team. Our suc­cess has come from putting our peo­ple and clients first and by mak­ing strate­gic appoint­ments that build on our strong focus on cul­ture, well­be­ing and client ser­vice. This appoint­ment will serve to bol­ster our already impres­sive…

8 July 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…

6 July 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…

6 July 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. …

6 July 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…

1 July 2021

Swaab announces the pro­mo­tion of Esther Khoo to Senior Associate

The pro­mo­tion recog­nis­es Esther’s excel­lent legal skills cou­pled with his desire to pro­vide excep­tion­al client ser­vice. As an invalu­able part of our Com­mer­cial Lit­i­ga­tion team we look for­ward to recog­nis­ing Esther as she con­tin­ues to devel­op and grow as a senior practitioner. Con­grat­u­la­tions Esther…

19 Apr 2021

Swaab announces the pro­mo­tion of Daniel Miller to Associate

The pro­mo­tion recog­nis­es Daniel’s excel­lent legal skills cou­pled with his desire to pro­vide excep­tion­al client ser­vice. As an invalu­able part of our Lit­i­ga­tion team we look for­ward to recog­nis­ing Daniel as he con­tin­ues to devel­op and grow as a senior practitioner.Con­grat­u­la­tions Daniel…

23 Feb 2021

Grad­u­ates Pro­gram 2021 — An inter­view with Esther Khoo

A key fac­tor in main­tain­ing our dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is embrac­ing inno­va­tion, diver­si­ty and the fresh per­spec­tives that come to our firm from employ­ing graduates. In the lead up to the Grad­u­ates Pro­gram for 2021 we will be inter­view­ing our past grad­u­ates and ask them to reflect on what their most inter­est­ing and…

17 Dec 2020

UniLodge Aus­tralia Pty Ltd & Anor v the Own­ers Stra­ta plan 54026 [2020] NSW­CATCD | Costs decision

In a pre­vi­ous new arti­cle (here), Helen Kow­al – Part­ner and Sean Green­wood – Senior Asso­ciate, recent­ly act­ed for a lot owner/​building man­ag­er in a stra­ta appli­ca­tion to the NSW Civ­il and Admin­is­tra­tive Tri­bunal, suc­cess­ful­ly seek­ing orders for the removal of the exist­ing stra­ta com­mit­tee and for the com­pul­so­ry appoint­ment of a stra­ta man­ag­er…