
Our low ratio of solicitors to partners ensures that our clients receive optimal access to partner resources for all matters. HWL Ebsworth operates a different business model to the other leading national law practices, and this allows us to offer unrivalled value for money without compromising quality and service.
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HWL Ebsworth is an independent, nationally integrated, full service commercial law firm, providing tailored and commercially oriented legal services. The firm comprises 1,391 staff including 269 Partners, 790 other legal staff and 332 support staff across offices in nine locations – Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Melbourne, Hobart, Norwest (North West Sydney), Perth and Sydney. HWL Ebsworth is the largest legal partnership in Australia according to the most recent partnership surveys published by The Australian and the Australian Financial Review. The HWL Ebsworth property team in Sydney included Dennis Bluth, Partner, Maged Jebeile, Special Counsel and Glenda Kim, Associate. The HWL Ebsworth property team acting on the additional acquisitions in Melbourne included David Marriott, Partner, Rupert Lugo, Senior Associate and Nic Sloan, Solicitor. The HWL Ebsworth property team has also recently advised Abacus Property Group on the acquisitions of 337 Bay Road Cheltenham and 14 Thomas Street, Yarraville in Melbourne and on 1 Woodville Road Granville and 100 &104 Montague Street & 3 Ralph Black Drive North Wollongong in Sydney.ĭavid Clarke, Partner, in the Sydney Corporate and Commercial Team acted on the acquisition of the balance of Storage King. This latest acquisition is just one of many that have recently increased Abacus Property Group’s portfolio in the storage facilities market, with further recent acquisitions of self-storage facilities in the Melbourne and Sydney market. The acquisition was described by Abacus CEO, Steven Sewell, to the Australian Financial Review, as a “key strategic imperative for Abacus, given our ownership of self-storage assets exceeds $1.2 billion and comprises 40 per cent of our balance sheet”. The deal represented the acquisition of the remaining 75 per cent of Storage King that Abacus did not already own, with the first 25 per cent being acquired back in August 2018. The White House has also been working on an AI executive order.The HWL Ebsworth Corporate and Commercial team advised Abacus Property Group on the $50 million acquisition of Storage King. Google, OpenAI and Microsoft signed on in July. The commitments, announced in July, are aimed at ensuring AI's power is not used for destructive purposes. On Tuesday, Adobe (ADBE.O), IBM, Nvidia and five other companies said they had signed President Joe Biden's voluntary AI commitments requiring steps such as watermarking AI-generated content.


Regulators globally have been scrambling to draw up rules governing the use of generative AI, which can create text and generate images whose artificial origins are virtually undetectable. In March, Musk and a group of AI experts and executives called for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4, citing potential risks to society. "A lot of things that have to be done, but that one has a quicker timetable maybe than some of the others," he said. general election, particularly around deep fakes. Sign up to get notified as soon as new Abacus Technology jobs in Hazel Park are posted. Schumer emphasized the need for regulation ahead of the 2024 U.S. There are currently no open jobs at Abacus Technology in Hazel Park listed on Glassdoor. Other attendees included Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft (MSFT.O) CEO Satya Nadella, IBM (IBM.N) CEO Arvind Krishna, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and AFL-CIO labor federation President Liz Shuler. Lawmakers want safeguards against potentially dangerous deep fakes such as bogus videos, election interference and attacks on critical infrastructure. "Are we ready to go out and write legislation? Absolutely not," Rounds said.

But Republican Senator Mike Rounds cautioned it would take time for Congress to act.
