News

Nov 2, 2012

Alis­tair Jaque fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly

Swaab Cor­po­rate Part­ner Alis­tair Jaque has been fea­tured in the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner Pro­file dis­cussing his career high­lights and chal­lenges, as well as his pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball aspirations.…

Oct 29, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in trade mark report on ABC Rur­al Radio

Swaab has fea­tured on ABC Rur­al Radio report­ing on the Aus­tralian Made Aus­tralian Grown logo reg­is­tra­tion in Chi­na. Swaab IP Part­ner Tim Hem­ing­way com­ments on the ben­e­fits of this reg­is­tra­tion in deal­ing with over­seas trade mark infringement…

Oct 24, 2012

Swaab in Law Firm Cham­pi­ons Cup

As fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly, Swaab will be par­tak­ing in the Law Firm Cham­pi­ons Cup next month with twelve oth­er teams com­pris­ing of small bou­tique to glob­al law firms. Cap­tained by Alis­tair Jaque, Team Swaab is look­ing for­ward to game day and putting cer­tain play­ers’ (claimed) skills to the test. The…

Oct 24, 2012

Swaab in Lawyers Week­ly on Uni­ver­sal Music’s acqui­si­tion of EMI

Swaab has fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on the ACC­C’s recent deci­sion not to oppose Uni­ver­sal Music’s acqui­si­tion of EMI. Swaab IP Part­ner, Matthew Hall com­ments on their deci­sion and the poten­tial impacts of this sig­nif­i­cant merger…

Oct 10, 2012

Swaab in ALB arti­cle on Rais­ing Aus­trali­a’s IP Standards

In this Aus­tralasian Legal Busi­ness arti­cle on Rais­ing Aus­trali­a’s IP Stan­dards Swaab part­ner Tim Hem­ing­way and solic­i­tor Kel­ly Mar­shall com­ment on the impli­ca­tions of the Aus­tralian gov­ern­men­t’s new reg­u­la­tion gov­ern­ing intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty, intro­duced in April this year. This arti­cle appears in issue 10.9 Octo­ber 2012 of ALB magazine…

Sep 28, 2012

Swaab Wel­comes New Fam­i­ly Law Solicitor

We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of solic­i­tor Natal­ie De Cam­po to our high­ly regard­ed fam­i­ly law team. Pri­or to her arrival at Swaab, Natal­ie’s roles includ­ed Legal Asso­ciate to Jus­tice Ian Lough­nan and Jus­tice William John­ston at the Fam­i­ly Court of Australia. Natal­ie holds a Bach­e­lor of Arts and Bach­e­lor of…

Sep 28, 2012

Swaab advis­es on strate­gic acqui­si­tion of Tri­point Online by UXC

Swaab has advised UXC in rela­tion to the acqui­si­tion of the lead­ing provider in con­sult­ing and online-man­aged ser­vices, Tri­point Online Pty Ltd, by their whol­ly-owned sub­sidiary, Red Rock Con­sult­ing Pty Ltd. Fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly this move has secured Red Rock­’s posi­tion as Ora­cle’s largest local­ly-based Peo­ple­Soft part­ner across Aus­tralia…

Sep 6, 2012

Mary Digiglio fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly

Fea­tured in the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner Pro­file, Swaab prop­er­ty part­ner Mary Digiglio dis­cuss­es the sig­nif­i­cant changes in prop­er­ty legal work over her career and the impor­tance of util­is­ing tech­no­log­i­cal advances to the advan­tage of her employ­ees and clients…

Sep 6, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on strate­gic SAP tech­nol­o­gy acquisition

The Swaab team led by cor­po­rate part­ner Alis­tair Jaque and senior asso­ciate Andrew Drap­er has fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on advis­ing pub­li­cal­ly list­ed, IT solu­tions com­pa­ny UXC in rela­tion to the acqui­si­tion of Aus­tralian spe­cial­ist SAP con­sult­ing firm, Stream, by their SAP soft­ware and ser­vices inte­gra­tor sub­sidiary, Oxy­gen Busi­ness Solutions…

Aug 31, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on our unique work­place culture

Swaab CEO Bron­wyn Pott met with Lawyers Week­ly to dis­cuss our fir­m’s flex­i­ble work­ing arrange­ments and prac­ti­cal billing struc­ture that has helped to attract and main­tain qual­i­ty staff and result­ed in our unique work­place culture…