Cannabis
Overview
CannaBizDisputes™
The commercial litigation landscape for CBD, hemp and marijuana is constantly evolving as federal and state courts issue decisions that impact investors, commercial contracts, employment issues, intellectual property and insolvency. The CannaBizDisputes™ blog regularly tracks and reports on these developments.
View BlogTannenbaum Helpern offers high quality, highly tailored services required by its clients involved in the emerging, closely regulated medical and adult-use (or recreational-use) cannabis industry. Our cannabis-related clients span the cannabis ecosystem and include multi-state operators, marijuana tech companies, CBD companies, U.S. and non-U.S. cannabis-focused private investment funds, and institutional investors with interests in cannabis companies in the U.S. and Canada. For these clients, the Firm provides a wide range of legal services including general corporate, venture capital, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, investment management, intellectual property, business reorganizations and creditors’ rights, general and specialized taxation, employment, litigation, cybersecurity and data privacy, in addition to advice relating to compliance with United States state laws and regulations governing cannabis. We also advise our clients on the inconsistencies between many state laws and federal law governing cannabis.
*The distribution and sale of marijuana, as well as its use and possession, remain criminalized under federal law. We do not intend any of our legal advice to provide assistance in the violation of federal law.
Representative Experience
- Provided corporate, private equity and mergers and acquisitions structuring advice to a series of private funds in connection with their acquisition of a $60 million controlling interest in a publicly-traded Canadian medical marijuana company in a club deal with high profile Canadian partners.
- Provided investment advisory, regulatory and tax advice to a U.S. feeder fund into a Canadian cannabis-focused private investment fund.
- Provided investment advisory and regulatory advice to an investment advisor to private funds in connection with their investments in the cannabis industry.
- Provided corporate, regulatory and governance advice to a major investor in a U.S. state-licensed medical marijuana grower and retailer.
- Provided corporate and venture capital advice to an institutional investor in connection with its evaluation and negotiation of an investment in a state-licensed vertically integrated cannabis company.
Attorneys
Case Studies
Publications
- New York’s Illegality Doctrine and Its Implications for Cannabis Contracts
- The Unique Problems of Litigating in the Cannabis Industry | NYLitigator - NYSBA
- The Ethical Issues Lawyers Face When They Wind Down a Practice Plus an Update on Cannabis Law Ethics
- Restructuring Alternatives for Distressed Business in the Cannabis Industry as Bankruptcy Courts Shut Their Doors (Part 1 of 2)
- The Haze and Maze of Cannabis Law: How Will New York Courts Decide Cannabis-Related Business Disputes?
- NYC Passes Legislation to Ban Pre-Employment Drug Testing for Marijuana
- Video: NYC Council bans drug testing job applicants for Marijuana
- Video: Cannabis in the workplace
- How Can-a-Biz Handle Employees Using Cannabis
- Groundbreaking 2018 Farm Bill Portends Huge Changes to U.S. Cannabis and Hemp Industries
- Anecdotes from World’s Largest B2B Cannabis Conference
- Legalized Adult-Use Marijuana Coming to New York?
- Litigation Financing Confidentiality and Marijuana Ethics For Lawyers
- U.S. Markets See First Cannabis IPO
- Groundbreaking bipartisan Congressional Legislation could pave the way to fully legalized Marijuana
CannaBizDisputes™
The commercial litigation landscape for CBD, hemp and marijuana is constantly evolving as federal and state courts issue decisions that impact investors, commercial contracts, employment issues, intellectual property and insolvency. The CannaBizDisputes™ blog regularly tracks and reports on these developments.
View BlogTannenbaum Helpern offers high quality, highly tailored services required by its clients involved in the emerging, closely regulated medical and adult-use (or recreational-use) cannabis industry. Our cannabis-related clients span the cannabis ecosystem and include multi-state operators, marijuana tech companies, CBD companies, U.S. and non-U.S. cannabis-focused private investment funds, and institutional investors with interests in cannabis companies in the U.S. and Canada. For these clients, the Firm provides a wide range of legal services including general corporate, venture capital, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, investment management, intellectual property, business reorganizations and creditors’ rights, general and specialized taxation, employment, litigation, cybersecurity and data privacy, in addition to advice relating to compliance with United States state laws and regulations governing cannabis. We also advise our clients on the inconsistencies between many state laws and federal law governing cannabis.
*The distribution and sale of marijuana, as well as its use and possession, remain criminalized under federal law. We do not intend any of our legal advice to provide assistance in the violation of federal law.
Representative Experience
- Provided corporate, private equity and mergers and acquisitions structuring advice to a series of private funds in connection with their acquisition of a $60 million controlling interest in a publicly-traded Canadian medical marijuana company in a club deal with high profile Canadian partners.
- Provided investment advisory, regulatory and tax advice to a U.S. feeder fund into a Canadian cannabis-focused private investment fund.
- Provided investment advisory and regulatory advice to an investment advisor to private funds in connection with their investments in the cannabis industry.
- Provided corporate, regulatory and governance advice to a major investor in a U.S. state-licensed medical marijuana grower and retailer.
- Provided corporate and venture capital advice to an institutional investor in connection with its evaluation and negotiation of an investment in a state-licensed vertically integrated cannabis company.
- New York’s Illegality Doctrine and Its Implications for Cannabis Contracts
- The Unique Problems of Litigating in the Cannabis Industry | NYLitigator - NYSBA
- The Ethical Issues Lawyers Face When They Wind Down a Practice Plus an Update on Cannabis Law Ethics
- Restructuring Alternatives for Distressed Business in the Cannabis Industry as Bankruptcy Courts Shut Their Doors (Part 1 of 2)
- The Haze and Maze of Cannabis Law: How Will New York Courts Decide Cannabis-Related Business Disputes?
- NYC Passes Legislation to Ban Pre-Employment Drug Testing for Marijuana
- Video: NYC Council bans drug testing job applicants for Marijuana
- Video: Cannabis in the workplace
- How Can-a-Biz Handle Employees Using Cannabis
- Groundbreaking 2018 Farm Bill Portends Huge Changes to U.S. Cannabis and Hemp Industries
- Anecdotes from World’s Largest B2B Cannabis Conference
- Legalized Adult-Use Marijuana Coming to New York?
- Litigation Financing Confidentiality and Marijuana Ethics For Lawyers
- U.S. Markets See First Cannabis IPO
- Groundbreaking bipartisan Congressional Legislation could pave the way to fully legalized Marijuana