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Cannabis Business Formation

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Cannabis

Legal Strategies for a
Fast-Growing Industry

Helping clients choose legal and tax structures to support long-term growth.

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Our cannabis business attorneys have represented hundreds of cannabis and ancillary businesses across the country and internationally in structuring their enterprises and drafting formation documents to promote their long-term growth and security.

New businesses must consider many elements when forming their cannabis companies. One crucial element is entity selection; choosing to classify as a corporation, cooperative, partnership, limited liability company or other structure presents a unique set of advantages and disadvantages. The legal and tax structures surrounding entity selection can be as important as the classification itself. Operating agreements, corporate shareholder agreements, and partnership agreements can create vastly different economic and management rights and responsibilities for new business owners.

Harris Sliwoski’s team of cannabis business lawyers work with clients from our offices in CaliforniaWashington and Oregon across a broad range of business formations issues. Our experience will guide you through the legal strategy that best complements your near- and long-term business objectives.

Our cannabis business formation services include

  • Entity selection and registration
  • Drafting of governance documents
  • Financing and capital contribution negotiations
  • Corporate governance and business operations
  • Commercial contracts and corporate transactions
  • Employment contracts
  • Intellectual property protection
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An intelligent, timely resource for the cannabis industry

Beyond advising individual businesses, our cannabis attorneys are committed to fortifying, defending, and building credibility for the industry as a whole. Harris Sliwoski’s cannabis business lawyers are more than legal strategists—they are thought leaders: forward-thinking bloggers, educators, writers, and speakers.

They regularly write articles for legal journals and frequently post to our acclaimed and widely followed Canna Law Blog. We speak to business and trade groups, academic institutions, and government bodies on a variety of cannabis legal issues, and our cannabis lawyers are frequently quoted by global, national, and local media outlets. We also have compiled (and are forever adding to) a Cannabis Glossary, to help with industry terminology. 

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Our Clients' Successes

“Harris Sliwoski expertly guided us through the formation of our company. They continue to assist with necessary registrations and compliance with numerous regulations. They were able to promptly answer all our many questions and provide understandable options, explanations and practical advice. We expect to continue to use Harris Sliwoski on a regular basis as our company expands. They were also able to introduce us other professional experts. We would not hesitate to recommend Harris Sliwoski to any companies in need of legal advice.”

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This law firm was a huge help as our company went through the process of commercial licensing in the California cannabis industry.  They have helped us with a variety of legal issues in a timely fashion, while clearly communicating with us throughout the process.  Everyone we’ve worked with at Harris Sliwoski is an expert in their field and we have always felt that we were in good hands through our legal representation.

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