• Represented Columbia Care in its $140 million acquisition of The Green Solution, a Colorado-based vertically integrated cannabis company.
• Represented Columbia Care in its pending $69 million acquisition of California-based Project Cannabis.
• Successfully challenged Massachusetts Governor and Department of Public Health’s ban of medical marijuana vaping products in Suffolk Superior Court.
• Represent New England Treatment Access, LLC (NETA), a leading Massachusetts-based cannabis company, in its sale to Surterra Wellness. The cash and stock transaction is one of the largest acquisitions to date in the U.S. cannabis industry.
• Serve as U.S. counsel to national operator with licenses in 13 U.S. states in business combination with NEO-Exchange-traded company.
• Represent national operator in acquisition of chain of Michigan dispensaries.
• Represent CSE-traded MSO in strategic acquisitions in multiple states and national real estate matters.
• Represent CSE-traded company on $60 million acquisition of cannabis company; and serve as special tax and regulatory counsel.
• Counsel emerging ancillary technology and services companies formed to support the growing U.S. and Canadian legal cannabis industries.
• Represent large real-estate investor in multiple cannabis-related acquisitions.
• Advise dozens of clients in multiple states on a variety of formation, structuring, and founder matters.
• Represent multiple operators at various stages of development and investors in private placements of debt and equity securities.
• Represent investment fund in all phases of $23 million investment and acquisition of Massachusetts cultivation, retail operations and real estate.
• Drafted application in New Jersey competitive RFP for Vertically Integrated ATCs with client NETA NJ that scored highest out of applications from more than 146 applicants.
• Assist clients in drafting applications to Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission for state marijuana establishment licenses, and successfully secure critical zoning approvals and local approvals.
• Successfully represented clients in securing positive resolution of compliance issues with Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission and Department of Public Health.
• Advise California, Massachusetts, and Oregon cannabis companies on protecting intellectual property, including trademarks.
• Advise dispensary owner in arbitration with investor regarding terms of the investor’s exit, and related refinancing.
• Advise a variety of cannabis and non-cannabis companies regarding the production and distribution of industrial hemp and CBD products, including FDA matters.
• Structured Holding Company for MSO’s subsidiaries in five states and $70mm Capital Raise
• Structured cannabis focused venture fund and parallel fund for direct investments
• Represented Ethos Cannabis in $18 million acquisition of 4Front Venture Corp’s assets in Pennsylvania and Maryland, including five operating dispensaries.
• Represented Ascend Wellness Holdings in the acquisition of Greenleaf Compassion Center, a vertically integrated Cannabis company that holds one of the original six medical licenses in New Jersey.
• Represented Trulieve Cannabis Corp. in Holyoke, Massachusetts Sale Leaseback transaction with Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc.
• Drafted, project managed and submitted more than 20 competitive RFP applications for numerous clients in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, and Utah, including multiple winning applications.
• Represented medical marijuana patients in successful challenge to the Governor’s temporary ban on the sale of cannabis vaporizer products in Massachusetts, securing a preliminary injunction against the ban and defending the validity of the ruling on appeal.
• Represented Cannapreneur Partners LLC in lead equity financing of “anna,” the nation’s first Artificial Intelligence-powered self-checkout solution.
• Currently represent multiple different cannabis companies with regard to union organizing efforts spurred by the labor movement’s desire to organize the industry, particularly in Massachusetts, Illinois and California.
• Negotiated and structured complex joint venture for applicant of dispensary, cultivation and manufacturing licenses, including a debt facility of up to $5M, and several other production facility joint ventures.
• Represent Columbia Care in national intellectual property, patent and trademark filings and related matters.
• Negotiated Wholesale, Branding, and Licensing agreements on behalf of clients in multiple jurisdictions.