• 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 publicly traded cannabis company in strategic acquisitions in multiple states.
• Negotiate license agreements for national cannabis company.
• Represent CSE-traded national cannabis company on acquisitions in Massachusetts and other states; tax structuring; licensing and management services contracts; real estate transactions; and regulatory and zoning matters.
• Represent CSE-traded company on $60 million acquisition of cannabis company; and serve as special tax and regulatory counsel.
• Provided tax structuring advice to multi-state medical marijuana operator.
• Counsel emerging ancillary technology and services companies formed to support the growing United States and Canadian legal cannabis industries.
• Provided corporate and regulatory advice for private client on its $18 million purchase of a Massachusetts cultivation and dispensing facility and advise client on corporate structuring and tax matters.
• Represent large real-estate investor in multiple cannabis-related acquisitions.
• Advise dozens of clients in multiple states on a variety of formation, structuring, and inter-founder matters.
• Represent multiple operators at various stages of development and investors in private placements of debt and equity securities.
• Represented 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.
• Successfully represented numerous clients in efforts to secure critical zoning approvals and highly competitive host community agreements in numerous municipalities. We have worked in communities across the Commonwealth including Boston, Salem, Chelsea, Gloucester, Worcester, Holyoke, Fitchburg, and Somerville.
• Assisted clients in drafting some of the first adult use applications to the Cannabis Control Commission, and continue to successfully obtain state marijuana establishment licenses.
• Successfully represented clients in securing positive resolution of compliance issues with Cannabis Control Commission and Department of Public Health.
• Advise California, Massachusetts, and Oregon cannabis companies on protecting intellectual property including trademarks.
• Advised California law firm on its potential establishment of a cannabis practice.
• Advised 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.