News

Nov 4, 2024

Swaab sup­ports Tour de Cure’s Spring Lunch

We were delight­ed to once again sup­port Tour de Cure’s Spring Lunch, at which around $900k was raised for can­cer research, with this year’s main recip­i­ent being the Leukaemia Foun­da­tion. The Cuban-themed event was full of colour, great music and the gen­eros­i­ty of over 600 atten­dees. Part­ners Julie Briscoe and…

Aug 17, 2023

Nick Dale appeared in the Fed­er­al Court on 11 August 2023 act­ing for Koshib Invest­ment Pty Ltd which is suing Slater & Gor­don Ltd

In the case, Koshib Invest­ment Pty Ltd atf Koshib Fund v Slater & Gor­don, Koshib Invest­ment, a self-man­aged super­an­nu­a­tion fund is suing Slater & Gor­don Ltd over the com­pul­so­ry acqui­si­tion of its shares in Slater & Gor­don Ltd by an enti­ty asso­ci­at­ed with Alle­gro Funds. At a con­test­ed case man­age­ment hear­ing before Fed­er­al Court Jus­tice John Hal­ley…

May 31, 2023

Resolv­ing Prop­er­ty Co-Own­er­ship Dis­putes: A Guide to Sec­tion 66G and Court-Appoint­ed Trustees

The pur­chase of res­i­den­tial or com­mer­cial prop­er­ty togeth­er may occur for a vari­ety of per­son­al or busi­ness rea­sons. How­ev­er, if cir­cum­stances change, one co-own­er may wish to sell or divest their inter­est while their fel­low co-own­ers don’t and are unwill­ing or unable to buy the for­mer out. If you want to…

May 10, 2023

Nick Dale will be speak­ing at the ACC 2023 In-House Coun­sel Day in Syd­ney — 18 May 2023

Nick Dale — Part­ner, Lit­i­ga­tion & Insol­ven­cy, will be speak­ing at the upcom­ing ACC 2023 In-House Coun­sel Day in Syd­ney, on the top­ic of, ​‘Nav­i­gat­ing an uncer­tain econ­o­my: sail­ing the seas of insol­ven­cy’ Nick will be co-pre­sent­ing with Karen Petch a com­mer­cial Bar­ris­ter with spe­cial­ist expe­ri­ence in insol­ven­cy and cor­po­ra­tions law. Event Details…

Apr 3, 2023

2023 Swaab’s Annu­al Insol­ven­cy, Financier & Com­mer­cial Drinks

Each year Swaab’s Insol­ven­cy, Financier and Com­mer­cial team hosts an indus­try wide net­work­ing func­tion. The event sees insol­ven­cy prac­ti­tion­ers, accoun­tants, com­mer­cial lenders, busi­ness advi­sors, asset val­uers and bar­ris­ters come togeth­er to enjoy an evening of net­work­ing with like-mind­ed peers, indus­try col­leagues and to make valu­able con­nec­tions. All while enjoy­ing Swaab’s…

Oct 21, 2022

Tour de Cure Spring Lunch | Swaab hosts two tables

Swaab part­ners Julie Briscoe (Tour de Cure Board mem­ber), Nick Dale, Ger­ald Carides, Matt Cole and Con­sul­tant Col­in Skel­ton host­ed 2 tables at this year’s Tour de Cure Spring Lunch held at the Hyatt Regency on 20 Octo­ber 2022. Tour de Cure were thrilled to raise just over $1m on the…

Jun 23, 2022

Exclu­sive Hugo Wines Tast­ing Client Event | 22 June 2022

Clients, Paul West­on, Cameron Gray, Daniel Mat­ta from DW Advi­so­ry, Matthew Erwin, Cash­man Con­sult­ing and Steven Mar­tin, Mar­tin & Orr and Swaab part­ners, lawyers and sup­port staff were treat­ed to an inti­mate and exclu­sive wine tast­ing event that high­light­ed Hugo Wines new releas­es and sev­er­al well known wines.  To con­tact William Hugo…

Jun 21, 2022

Tour de Cure Snow Ball 2022 Black Tie Gala Event

The mid year Ball raised over $1.8m in dona­tions and is the char­i­ties mid year gala black tie fund rais­ing event. The event brings togeth­er more than 1,100 guests, celebri­ty and sup­port­ers, enabling Sydney’s phil­an­thropic com­mu­ni­ty and lead­ing cor­po­rate organ­i­sa­tions to come togeth­er for the com­mon goal of rais­ing funds…

Mar 28, 2022

Swaab’s Newest Part­ner Wel­come Event | Thurs­day 24 March 2022

Despite the rain in Syd­ney on Thurs­day we had a full house to cel­e­brate the appoint­ment of Michael Hayter, Ger­ald Carides and Nicholas Dale. With well over 85 friends and clients of the firm from the Com­mer­cial Finance, Insol­ven­cy and Restruc­tur­ing indus­try sec­tors, com­ing togeth­er to cel­e­brate and wel­come Swaab’s newest partners. …

Oct 7, 2021

Restraints of trade: lessons for real estate agents

Their for­mer employ­er sought inter­locu­to­ry injunc­tions restrain­ing our clients from work­ing in their new jobs. The deci­sion is high­ly sig­nif­i­cant because it inter­prets aspects of indus­try stan­dard employ­ment con­tracts for real estate agents, and rein­forces an ear­li­er deci­sion from 2020 involv­ing the same con­trac­tu­al claus­es. The deci­sion also reit­er­ates that…