About Swaab

At a glance

  • 80 to 100 team members
  • 12,000+ clients have been assisted
  • 1,000+ free legal pub­li­ca­tions are avail­able on our website
  • Our head office is in Syd­ney, NSW Australia
  • We are the Syd­ney mem­ber of the Glob­al Law Firm alliance — Mer­i­tas
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Descrip­tion

We are Lawyers val­ued by how we serve you: with gen­eros­i­ty of spir­it, com­mit­ment, and liv­ing our Swaab Brand of Ser­vice, we achieve prac­ti­cal and mean­ing­ful results togeth­er. That’s our promise and our difference.

Exper­tise

We hold a unique posi­tion in the mar­ket­place, as a firm with both full-ser­vice Com­mer­cial and Fam­i­ly law offer­ings. We offer the fol­low­ing expertise:

  • Com­mer­cial
  • Com­mer­cial Finance
  • Con­struc­tion
  • Con­test­ed Estates
  • Cor­po­rate
  • Cyber
  • Employ­ment
  • Estate Plan­ning & Wills
  • Fam­i­ly Law
  • Fran­chis­ing
  • Insol­ven­cy
  • IP & Technology
  • Lit­i­ga­tion
  • Plan­ning & Environment 
  • Prop­er­ty
  • Stra­ta
  • Work­place Health & Safety

Sec­tors

  • Finan­cial Services
  • Health­care & Allied Health
  • Hotels & Hospitality
  • Man­u­fac­tur­ing & Industrials
  • Nat­ur­al Resources
  • Pri­vate Clients & Fam­i­ly Businesses
  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Retail & Wholesale
  • Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al & Non-professional
  • Tech­nol­o­gy & Media

Brand iden­ti­ty guidelines

  • The firm is known only as Swaab, not Swaab Attor­neys, not Swaab Lawyers, Swaab Legal or SWAAB (all in cap­i­tals). Where pos­si­ble Swaab should be hyper­linked to the Swaab web­site www​.swaab​.com​.au
  • The firm is known by our tagline: Gen­eros­i­ty of Spirit
  • Our Brand is intrin­si­cal­ly linked in the icon­ic Syd­ney beach of Bon­di (due to Fed Swaab’s asso­ci­a­tion), this is depict­ed by the wave through the Swaab logo and by the fir­m’s sup­port­ing imagery
  • The Swaab brand iden­ti­ty fea­tures a cus­tom designed typo­graph­ic expres­sion of the firm’s name with a graph­ic wave ele­ment (wave) incor­po­rat­ed in a fixed posi­tion. The logo­type has been cre­at­ed from the type­face The­sis The­Sans with cus­tomi­sa­tion to some of the let­ter­forms to aid spac­ing and arrangement.
  • The logo­type should always be dis­played in a sin­gle colour, gra­dat­ed or flat, although there are options as to what the sin­gle colour may be. The sig­na­ture colour for dis­play of the logo­type is known as ​‘Swaab Blue’ and is spec­i­fied as Pan­tone (PMS) 646C.

Online Assets

  • The pri­ma­ry logo should only be used on web pages as per Swaab’s Brand Guide­lines. Our Logo must be clear­ly vis­i­ble when used in high-qual­i­ty. The logo may not be altered in any way.
  • The min­i­mum size at which the pri­ma­ry logo is used should not be less than 40mm.
  • Please con­tact us for a high-res­o­lu­tion ver­sion of our logo

Social Media

Affil­i­a­tions

We are the Syd­ney mem­ber of Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of full ser­vice law firms. Mer­i­tas law firms work col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly to pro­vide clients with local legal exper­tise of the high­est quality.

Con­tact:

John Hov­el­mann
Head of Client Devel­op­ment & Brand
Swaab
M +61 407 888 616 | T +61 2 9233 5544 | F +61 2 9233 5400
jbh@​swaab.​com.​au | www​.swaab​.com​.au

Publications

Copy­right and Gen­er­a­tive AI: what Aus­tralia can learn from the Meta and Anthrop­ic Rulings

In 2025, two U.S. court deci­sions, Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthrop­ic, have pro­vid­ed the first real judi­cial answers…

Fed­er­al Court Deci­sion Lim­its Effec­tive Use of Set-Off in Con­trac­tu­al Annu­al Salary Arrangements

The Deci­sionIn a recent Fed­er­al Court deci­sion*, Jus­tice Per­ram held that while con­trac­tu­al set-off claus­es in an annu­al salary arrange­ment can…

Pro­tect­ing your tomor­row, today: The impor­tance of an endur­ing pow­er of attorney

We often talk about the impor­tance of draft­ing your estate plan­ning doc­u­ments, includ­ing how draft­ing your will can ensure your…

In the News

Sarah Heuv­el pro­vides insight into get­ting Rent Roll Trans­ac­tions Com­pli­ance Compliant

Sarah Heuv­el in an inter­view with Matthew Cial­lel­la of MC Broking & Advi­so­ry, dis­cuss rent roll trans­ac­tions and the three key…

Michael Byrnes appeared on Mon­ey News with Evan Lucas on 2GB on 8 Sep­tem­ber 2025 to dis­cuss the recent Fed­er­al Court deci­sion relat­ing to salary arrange­ments, set-off claus­es and award compliance

Michael Byrnes appeared on Mon­ey News with Evan Lucas on 2GB on 8 Sep­tem­ber 2025 to dis­cuss the recent Fed­er­al Court…

Michael Byrnes has pub­lished an arti­cle titled ​“Use of AI Crit­i­cised by FWC” in HR Leader on 2 Sep­tem­ber 2025.

Michael Byrnes has pub­lished an arti­cle titled ​“Use of AI Crit­i­cised by FWC” in HR Leader on 2 Sep­tem­ber 2025.To read the…