News

Jun 5, 2019

Mer­i­tas | ANZ Intern­ship Exchange

Solic­i­tors Pierce Bedog­ni of Martel­li McK­egg and John Trinh of Swaab, have swapped firms and coun­tries for two weeks to gain an under­stand­ing and insights into how each oth­ers firms oper­ate and how their legal sys­tems and leg­is­la­tion vary between juris­dic­tions. Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Mary Digiglio said, ​“It is won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty…

May 23, 2019

Aus­tralia & New Zealand Doing Busi­ness Guides 2019

The 2019 edi­tion of the Mer­i­tas Legal Guide for Busi­ness Invest­ment and Expan­sion in Aus­tralia and New Zealand are now avail­able to view.…

May 20, 2019

Swaab ranked in Doyles Guide 2019

Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio has been list­ed as a Rec­om­mend­ed Leas­ing Lawyer 2019, Part­ner Tony D’Agosti­no has been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Lawyer 2019 and Part­ner Emma Flem­ing has been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in Plan­ning & Devel­op­ment Lawyer 2019. Swaab has also been list­ed in both Rec­om­mend­ed Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Law…

May 17, 2019

Mer­i­tas | Glob­al Well­ness Launch

Fol­low­ing on from the open pan­el dis­cus­sion that Mary Digiglio par­tic­i­pat­ed in at the recent Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 held in San Diego, we are proud to announce the launch of the Mer­i­tas Glob­al Well­ness initiative. As a world­wide net­work of law firms, Mer­i­tas has iden­ti­fied Well­ness as a key issue which is…

Apr 15, 2019

Mary Digiglio announced as a final­ist at the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner of the Year Awards 2019

The Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner of the Year Awards, in part­ner­ship with Tay­lor Root, show­cas­es out­stand­ing per­for­mance by part­ners, or part­ner equiv­a­lent, across indi­vid­ual prac­tice areas with­in the Aus­tralian legal indus­try — the only nation­al awards pro­gram to do so. We wish Mary all the best. The win­ners will be announced at…

Apr 9, 2019

Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 in San Diego — Well­ness in law

Mary Digiglio par­tic­i­pat­ed in an open pan­el dis­cus­sion among Mer­i­tas law firms at the recent Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 held in San Diego. The dis­cus­sion was on the grow­ing impor­tance law firms need to place on well­ness and well-being with­in the legal pro­fes­sion. Pan­elists show­cased the pro­grams and com­mit­ments they…

Mar 25, 2019

James Skel­ton has been announced as a final­ist in the 2019 Aus­tralasian Law Awards

Con­grat­u­la­tions to James Skel­ton who has been announced as a final­ist in the ​‘Young Pri­vate Prac­tice Lawyer of the Year (30 or under)’ cat­e­go­ry of the Aus­tralasian Law Awards 2019. The Aus­tralasian Law Awards cel­e­brate the out­stand­ing achieve­ments of Aus­tralia and New Zealand’s lead­ing legal pro­fes­sion­al, firms and in-house teams for their…

Feb 8, 2019

Well­ness is core to our philosophy

Our phi­los­o­phy is that we employ the ​“whole per­son” not just the lawyer, the sup­port per­son or the man­ag­er. Our staff are peo­ple first and fore­most. The days of expect­ing peo­ple to leave their per­son­al lives at the door are gone. It is inap­pro­pri­ate to expect peo­ple to take phone…

Feb 8, 2019

2019 a year of oppor­tu­ni­ties and growth

Whilst increased com­pe­ti­tion, dis­rup­tion and con­sol­i­da­tion con­tin­ue to play out through­out the legal sec­tor, our posi­tion in the mar­ket place of serv­ing entre­pre­neurs, busi­ness­es, inno­va­tors, fam­i­lies offices, fam­i­lies and gov­ern­ment remains in grow­ing demand. High­lights includ­ed help­ing a glob­al client with their nation­al busi­ness mod­el roll-out, work­ing with a num­ber of prop­er­ty…

Dec 6, 2018

Swaab assists in the glob­al acqui­si­tion of CMS Hospitality

MON­TRE­AL, Dec. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Val­soft Cor­po­ra­tion Inc. (“Val­soft”), a Mon­tréal-based com­pa­ny that spe­cial­izes in the acqui­si­tion and devel­op­ment of ver­ti­cal mar­ket soft­ware busi­ness­es, is pleased to announce the acqui­si­tion of CMS Hos­pi­tal­i­ty, an Aus­tralia-based hos­pi­tal­i­ty soft­ware solu­tions provider with clients across 25 coun­tries. Under the agree­ment, Val­soft acquires…