Award win­ning Syd­ney based law firm, Swaab is pleased to announce the appoint­ment of a new partner.

Matthew Cole — Part­ner, Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Law, spe­cialis­es in all aspects of plan­ning and envi­ron­men­tal law hav­ing advised lead­ing ASX list­ed com­pa­nies, small to medi­um devel­op­ers, gov­ern­ment agen­cies and politicians.

This senior appoint­ment comes at a strate­gic time in the fir­m’s con­tin­ued growth jour­ney, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects sec­tor. Matthew’s impres­sive exper­tise and expe­ri­ence enables Swaab to remain ahead of the curve in serv­ing our clien­t’s needs. While at the same time aug­ment­ing our domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al legal ser­vice offer­ing with experts that fit cul­tur­al­ly and share our same client ser­vice val­ues. Ensur­ing we can deliv­er unri­valled val­ue for mon­ey and qual­i­ty of ser­vice with our hall­mark of Gen­eros­i­ty of Spir­it and com­mit­ment to liv­ing the Swaab Brand of Ser­vice”, said Mary Digiglio, Man­ag­ing Part­ner Swaab.


Mary Digiglio

Man­ag­ing Part­ner – Swaab

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