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Aug 16, 2013

Swaab works with inter­na­tion­al net­work on tech­nol­o­gy acquisition

Swaab has worked with its Mer­i­tas inter­na­tion­al legal net­work to pro­vide advice to Plaut IT Aus­tralia (Plaut) on their acqui­si­tion of Base­lin­er, an off­shore ser­vice provider in Malaysia. Swaab part­nered with Malaysian firm Zain & Co on the trans­ac­tion which has allowed Plaut, one of the largest local­ly-owned providers of spe­cial­i­ty SAP…

Aug 16, 2013

Swaab advis­es on man­age­ment buy out 

Swaab Attor­neys part­ner Alis­tair Jaque advised Applied Fil­ters Pty Ltd (Applied Fil­ters) on the man­age­ment buy­out of its Aus­tralian busi­ness. Applied Fil­ters, which is based in Mel­bourne and has been in oper­a­tion for more than 40 years, designs and cus­tom man­u­fac­tures fil­ters for a range of indus­tries includ­ing min­ing and health. The…

Aug 15, 2013

Swaab advis­es on deal to form leader in con­struc­tion indus­try insur­ance broking

Swaab advised Aus­trali­a’s largest pri­vate­ly owned insur­ance bro­ker Cov­er­force on the acqui­si­tion of Aus­tralian insur­ance bro­ker MA Risk Solutions. Cov­er­force has acquired 100% of the Aus­tralian oper­a­tions of MA Risk Solu­tions which Cov­er­force CEO, Jim Ange­lis, says will strength­en Cov­er­force’s posi­tion as the insur­ance bro­ker of choice for the Aus­tralian con­struc­tion industry…

Nov 20, 2012

Finance Month­ly names Alis­tair Jaque ​“Deal Mak­er of the Year 2012”

Finance Month­ly has named Swaab cor­po­rate part­ner Alis­tair Jaque ​“Deal Mak­er of the Year 2012” for 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. The Finance Month­ly ​“Deal…

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.…

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

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…

Apr 13, 2012

Swaab appoint new lawyer to cor­po­rate and com­mer­cial team

Swaab wel­comes new lawyer Kel­ly Mar­shall to our cor­po­rate and com­mer­cial team. Kel­ly is a com­mer­cial and cor­po­rate advi­so­ry lawyer with spe­cial­ist indus­try focus in Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty, and the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, Media and Tech­nol­o­gy sec­tor. Kel­ly has advised pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tor clients on a wide range of com­mer­cial and cor­po­rate issues includ­ing IP…

Dec 14, 2011

Arrival of Tim Hem­ing­way as a part­ner to Swaab in The Australian

The Aus­tralian reports on Swaabs excit­ing announce­ment, the arrival of Tim Hem­ing­way as a part­ner to Swaab and the Cor­po­rate and Com­mer­cial Group. Tim’s prac­tice focus­es on IT and intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty, logis­tics and trans­port, cor­po­rate advi­so­ry and merg­ers and acquisitions…

Sep 9, 2011

Swaab wel­comes new cor­po­rate lawyer and fam­i­ly lawyer

We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of 2 new lawyers to our Swaab team. Andrew Drap­er has joined Swaab as a senior asso­ciate, expand­ing the fir­m’s capa­bil­i­ty in our cor­po­rate and com­mer­cial team. Andrew has act­ed for a range of large cor­po­ra­tions and has built a wealth of knowl­edge in the avi­a­tion indus­try hav­ing…