Swaab and Shaw Reynolds are pleased to announce that as of 1 July 2014 Chris Shaw and the team at Shaw Reynolds will be join­ing Swaab’s Prop­er­ty and Projects Group.

Swaab and Shaw Reynolds are pleased to announce that as of 1 July 2014 Chris Shaw and the team at Shaw Reynolds will be join­ing Swaab’s Prop­er­ty and Projects Group.

For the past 10 years Chris Shaw has been the prin­ci­pal part­ner at Shaw Reynolds has been ser­vic­ing clients in the prop­er­ty indus­try and spe­cialis­es in envi­ron­ment and plan­ning law, local gov­ern­ment and prop­er­ty development.
Chris will be joined by his team of 6 lawyers and admin­is­tra­tion staff.

The spe­cialised and sound exper­tise of Chris and his team enables them to pro­vide effec­tive ser­vice to their clients, which includes local coun­cils and New South Wales Gov­ern­ment author­i­ties and agen­cies, as well as pri­vate devel­op­ers and corporations.

We are excit­ed to have Chris and his team join us. We are focussing on tar­get­ed growth to expand our offer­ing at Swaab. Chris and his team bring a capa­bil­i­ty that will com­ple­ment our clients and prac­tice, espe­cial­ly our Prop­er­ty and Projects Team.’ Said Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio.

For fur­ther queries please con­tact Busi­ness Devel­op­ment and Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er Amber Burgess on +61 2 9777 8341.

If you would like to repub­lish this arti­cle, it is gen­er­al­ly approved, but pri­or to doing so please con­tact the Mar­ket­ing team at marketing@​swaab.​com.​au. This arti­cle is not legal advice and the views and com­ments are of a gen­er­al nature only. This arti­cle is not to be relied upon in sub­sti­tu­tion for detailed legal advice.

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