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 (PMS646C.

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

Assess­ing Scope 3 Emis­sions: An analy­sis of the impli­ca­tions of Den­man Aberdeen Muswell­brook Scone Healthy Envi­ron­ment Group Inc v MACH Ener­gy Aus­tralia Pty Ltd [2025] NSW­CA 163 (the Mount Pleas­ant decision)

Intro­duc­tionOn July 24, 2025, the New South Wales Court of Appeal (NSW­CA) deliv­ered a land­mark rul­ing in Den­man Aberdeen Muswell­brook Scone…

Work­place Rela­tion­ships: The Legal Posi­tion (Cold­play Con­cert Edition)

The recent sto­ry of col­leagues (a Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer and Chief Peo­ple Offi­cer (CPO)) whose appar­ent rela­tion­ship was cap­tured on…

Dis­missal for Dissent?

The recent unfair dis­missal deci­sion of the Fair Work Com­mis­sion, Shaun Turn­er v Dare­bin City Coun­cil [2025] FWC 1763, in which Deputy…

In the News

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, Employ­ee award­ed $305k in record sex­u­al harass­ment pay­out”, pub­lished in HRM Online on 12 August 2025

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Employ­ee award­ed $305k in record sex­u­al harass­ment pay­out”, pub­lished in HRM Online on…

Michael Byrnes appeared on Mon­ey News with Evan Lucas on 2GB on 4 August 2025 to dis­cuss the pro­posed Vic­to­ri­an state gov­ern­ment work from home laws

Michael Byrnes appeared on Mon­ey News with Evan Lucas on 2GB on 4 August 2025 to dis­cuss the pro­posed Vic­to­ri­an state gov­ern­ment…

Julie Briscoe attend­ed an event last night host­ed by NSW Gov­er­nor Mar­garet Bea­z­ley, cel­e­brat­ing Tour de Cure’s sup­port for world-class can­cer research breakthroughs.

Her Excel­len­cy the Hon­ourable Mar­garet Bea­z­ley AC KC, Gov­er­nor of New South Wales, and patron of Tour de Cure, host­ed…