When you partner with Dentons, you benefit from our deep well of experience across a number of legal fields, as our Cannabis group regularly collaborates with colleagues throughout the firm to comprehensively address our clients’ every need.  Our experience includes:

• Cannabis licensing applications and regulations: Working with clients on cultivation and production license applications and related regulatory matters.
• Going public transactions and financings: Working with licensed producers on their going-public transactions and financing activities.
• Investors: Counseling investors on the full range of investment opportunities, domestic and international, from private and public securities offerings to equity investments in promising early-stage or expansion-stage ventures.
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Counseling leading producers on domestic and international acquisitions of distribution and patient aggregation targets.
• Distribution and marketing: Advising on technology transactions and data security and consumer data privacy issues in connection with distribution, sales and marketing platforms for cannabis and related products and services.
• CBD/Hemp: Providing legal and regulatory advice relating to the production and international trade of CBD oil and hemp.
• Real estate: Advising and representing producers, processors and retailers, licensed and application pending, on real estate acquisitions, facility construction and zoning matters.
• Branding and IP licensing: Assisting with branding, including the registration and protection of trademarks and other intellectual property and the negotiation and drafting of licensing agreements.
• Clinical trials: Counseling clients on all aspects of their clinical trials, from the development of clinical trial protocols to the drafting and negotiation of clinical trial agreements and related procurement agreements, including confidentiality and material transfer agreements.
• Risk assessments: Counseling clients in supporting industries as to the risks of doing business with cannabis industry participants.
• Advocacy: Counseling clients on pending legislation, drafting legislation and advocating for clients at the state and federal level.
• Litigation: Representing clients in shareholder disputes and breach of contract litigation.