Whitehead Law Group

Whitehead Law Group is a dedicated intellectual property and commercial law firm committed to helping businesses protect their interests and maintain control. We offer clear legal advice and tailored strategies to assist clients in achieving their goals and protecting their rights. Established with a focus on providing practical and personalised legal services, our firm is led by a principal with over 20 years of experience in litigation, intellectual property law, and commercial legal matters. With a distinctive background in both science and law, he delivers a unique blend of technical and legal expertise to each client engagement. As a boutique firm, Whitehead Law Group combines high-level experience and expertise in intellectual property, commercial law, and dispute resolution. We integrate legal precision with commercial insight, enabling businesses to minimise risk, protect assets, and make confident, informed decisions. Our approach is practical, forward-looking, and consistently aligned with business realities. Our clients span a diverse range of industries throughout Sydney and Australia, including technology, manufacturing, e-commerce, and consulting. We provide services such as advising on complex disputes and commercial transactions, IP strategies for local and global markets, drafting and negotiating contracts, business structuring, shareholder and partnership agreements, licensing and distribution arrangements, supply and service contracts, business sales and acquisitions, and settlement agreements. In the realm of intellectual property, we offer practical, commercially focused strategies to safeguard IP rights domestically and internationally. Our expertise covers infringement proceedings, trade mark and design applications, copyright advice and enforcement, and patent strategy in collaboration with patent attorneys. We handle licensing and assignment of IP, brand and technology protection, IP dispute resolution, international IP protection through trusted associates, IP audits and portfolio management, as well as confidentiality agreements and IP due diligence. For commercial law, we provide advice on business structuring and governance, shareholder and partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, licensing and distribution arrangements, supply and service contracts, business sales and acquisitions, settlement agreements, corporate advisory and compliance, contract review and negotiation, and sale and purchase of businesses. In litigation and dispute resolution, we represent clients in commercial contract disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, debt recovery and enforcement, urgent injunctions, freezing orders, franchise disputes, mediation and arbitration, high-value commercial litigation, defamation, misleading conduct and reputational harm, and urgent interlocutory relief and enforcement as needed. Our firm stands out through its rare combination of legal and technical knowledge, providing commercially focused solutions and personalised service with direct access to our senior lawyer. Clients benefit from transparent fees and timeframes, as well as our local knowledge paired with global reach through trusted international associates. We prioritise practical outcomes, clear communication, and building long-term client relationships.