Corporate Law
Stephen Annicchiarico
Recognized in Ones to Watch since 2026 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Stephen is the practice leader of the intellectual property and technology practice at WRP Legal and Advisory.
Stephen advises on a broad range of intellectual property and technology matters, including intellectual property commercialisation, brand protection, technology transactions and other related matters, such as trade marks, copyright, confidential information, financial services, privacy, and competition and consumer law.
Stephen’s practice includes working with ASX-listed companies and some of Australia’s largest start-ups across a broad range of intellectual property and technology matters.
Practice Areas:
- Intellectual Property (trade marks, copyright, confidential information, designs, business reputation)
- Technology (ecommerce, software, apps, websites, domains, hosting and data)
- Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Digital and Social Media
- Competition and Consumer
- Financial Services and Payments
- General Corporate and Commercial, including capital raising, and share, business, and asset sales
Overview
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Australia™ 2026 for work in:
- Corporate Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
- Commercial Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Privacy and Data Security Law
- Information Technology Law
- Defamation and Media Law
- Entertainment Law
- Sports Law
Awards:
- 2025 – Doyle’s Guide – Leading South Australian Intellectual Property Lawyer
- 2024 – Partners of the Year – Lawyers Weekly – Finalist – Intellectual Property
- 2024 – Partners of the Year – Lawyers Weekly – Finalist – Technology
- 2024 – Partners of the Year – Lawyers Weekly – Finalist – Financial Services
- 2023 – 30 Under 30 – Lawyers’ Weekly – Winner – Intellectual Property
- 2023 – 30 Under 30 – Lawyers’ Weekly – Finalist – Financial Services
- 2023 – Rising Star – Australasian Lawyer
- 2022 – 30 Under 30 – Lawyers’ Weekly – Finalist – Intellectual Property
- 2022 – 30 Under 30 – Lawyers’ Weekly – Finalist – Financial Services
- 2022 – Rising Star – Australasian Lawyer
- 2020 – Dean’s List of Excellence in Academic Performance – University of New South Wales:
- International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
- Financial Law and Regulation in the Age of Fintech
Additional Information
Case History
Transactions
- Recent Experience:
Acted for:
- Australia’s largest digital gift card retailer in intellectual property, commercial, corporate, financial services and privacy matters;
- the world’s largest 3D digital asset library platform in relation to intellectual property protection;
- AFL football club in intellectual property protection, and corporate and commercial matters;
- major, VC-backed technology start-ups including, agtech, foodtech and medtech start-ups in intellectual property commercialisation, and corporate and commercial matters;
- multi-national technology client, hotel group and insurer in multi-jurisdictional privacy advice; and
- major clients in trade mark disputes, including:
- an ecommerce client against Instagram (in AU, US, UK and EU);
- an Australian professional tennis player against Kelloggs;
- residential villages against a NASDAQ-listed hotel provider; and
- a carbontech start-up against an ASX-listed institution.
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