Specialist Corporate and Commercial Lawyers
How we can help
We are based in the Hunter Valley which remains Australia’s leading engineering powerhouse and we specialise in providing wholistic legal advice to engineering and manufacturing clients.
Our clients provide products and services to the mining, civil infrastructure, energy, aerospace, agriculture and bio-medical sectors. For more than 2 decades our lawyers have worked as trusted advisors to some of the largest operating in Australia that supply domestic and international markets.
In 2024 SWS was named HunterNet member of the year. Learn more about the HunterNet Cooperative and its 160+ strong manufacturing and engineering company membership base here. We are very proud of our track record assisting manufacturing and engineering clients succeed in their chosen markets.
You can rely on SWS to deliver the legal support you need from company formation and funding for growth, contracting with business partners or joint ventures for expansion, mergers and acquisitions for growth or restructure, and representation in litigation, investigation or enquiries.
Our bespoke legal services tailored to your manufacturing business include:
- Design and manufacture; toll-manufacture; prototype design and license; product development agreements (fabricated products)
- Design and construct agreements (civil and infrastructure)
- Joint venture and partnering agreements (infrastructure)
- Intellectual property management, licensing and registration services
- Disputes – navigating complex design liability; fabrication liability and product liability claims
Contact to Richard Suters about your requirements and he will take the time to understand your needs and your particular area of specialisation.
Their approach is always professional and delivered at a standard comparable to a capital city law firm. It is the clear strategic direction that has always impressed me about the SWS team.
We believe their ability to combine first rate legal expertise, commercial judgement and strong negotiating skills is rare amongst lawyers and provides us with a real competitive advantage in corporate transactions. We use SWS because of their ability, not their post code.
Extreme gratitude to David and Andrew for all your help with our transaction. You were both fantastic to deal with (as were the rest of the SWS team) and certainly made the negotiations and dealings easy to handle for us through the whole process. I would certainly have no hesitation at all recommending you for any future work. Again, I appreciate all your assistance.
The combination of rare legal expertise, commercial judgement and strong negotiating skills is rare amongst lawyers and provides us with a real competitive advantage in corporate transactions.
SWS has assisted with advice on securing and exercising complex property and commercial contractual rights and assisting with protracted contractual management and implementation. We value legal experts who can offer pragmatic and commercial legal solutions for our complicated matters. SWS Lawyers has consistently met these criteria.
The team at SWS Lawyers have already showcased their professionalism, commitment, positive can-do attitude and insight into our needs and have a clear understanding of the disability sector.
