Mr Cole joins Swaab from Hones Lawyers, where he was a special counsel. Prior to this, he worked at MinterEllison as a senior associate.

Throughout his career, Mr Cole has specialised in all aspects of planning and environmental law. His clients include leading ASX-listed companies, small to medium developers, government agencies and politicians. 

Swaab managing partner Mary Digiglio welcomed Mr Cole to the firm, noting his experience will be of significant value.

“This senior appoint­ment comes at a strate­gic time in the fir­m’s con­tin­ued growth jour­ney, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the prop­er­ty, plan­ning and projects sec­tor,” Ms Digiglio said.

“Matthew’s impres­sive exper­tise and expe­ri­ence enables Swaab to remain ahead of the curve in serv­ing our clien­t’s needs. While at the same time aug­ment­ing our domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al legal ser­vice offer­ing with experts that fit cul­tur­al­ly and share our same client ser­vice val­ues.

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“Ensur­ing we can deliv­er unri­valled val­ue for mon­ey and qual­i­ty of ser­vice with our hall­mark of Gen­eros­i­ty of Spir­it and com­mit­ment to liv­ing the Swaab Brand of Ser­vice.”