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With decades of experience representing organizations in highly regulated fields, Brach Eichler is the premiere firm with a cohesive cross-discipline cannabis practice group providing sophisticated legal services for all our cannabis industry clients’ needs. We have experienced lawyers who provide legal counsel in all the substantive areas affecting clients in or impacted by the cannabis industry. Our cannabis practice group is ready to assist you in taking the springboard of opportunities created not just for producers and sellers of cannabis, but for a wide range of supporting and spin-off industries.

Few industries present more complex legal issues than the rapidly growing legal cannabis industry. Providing advice and representation to cannabis clients requires an understanding and appreciation of a broad range of legal, regulatory, and operational considerations. Brach Eichler has a full range of experience across a number of legal fields. Our cannabis group collaborates with colleagues throughout the firm to identify and comprehensively address a wide range of complex issues such as:

  • Investments: Providing legal advice on corporate transactions, including  affiliations and strategic mergers and acquisitions, and assisting cannabis industry participants on a range of investment and funding structures and opportunities.  
  • Regulatory Compliance: Our attorneys serve as compliance counsel to cannabis businesses, ensuring they remain in compliance with all applicable state and local regulations. Our regulatory attorneys also regularly advise businesses of the changing federal regulatory landscape.
  • Licensure Applications: Applying and securing a cannabis license is a complex process.  Clients may have one chance at submitting an application, so it is vital to ensure the application complies with all regulations and demonstrates an ability to run a successful cannabis business.
  • Land Use: We can help you determine your property’s viability for cannabis permitting and licensing as well as complete the back-end land use work to bring a property into compliance.
  • Real Estate: Counseling clients on their real estate acquisitions, facility construction and zoning matters.
  • Employment Counseling: Our attorneys have experience providing employment guidance to business entities of all types. Brach Eichler provides advice to help employers effectively manage their workforce and the challenges our clients encounter to stay compliant with federal, state and local employment laws and regulations.
  • Litigation: Our deep bench of trial lawyers has the expertise to represent companies in the types of disputes that have been prevalent in the cannabis industry, including disputes with investors and shareholders over management and ownership, securities litigation, class actions.
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