Get in Touch with Our Cannabis Litigation Team
Get started by filling out the form, or call 1-888-330-0010 to schedule an initial consultation.
"*" indicates required fields
Since 2010, we’ve settled and defended complex, high-stakes securities cases in many jurisdictions.
Contact UsThe rapid influx of investor capital into the cannabis—marijuana and hemp—industry has been paralleled by a significant increase in legal disputes involving federal and state securities laws. These laws are intended to protect investors and they impose comprehensive disclosure requirements on issuers of securities. Over the past several years, high-speed industry growth and ongoing regulatory uncertainties have combined with administrative missteps by securities issuers to drive a sharp increase in litigation, much of which appears to have been preventable.
Since 2010, we’ve been helping businesses navigate rapidly evolving cannabis regulation and policy, helping cannabis businesses with their corporate legal matters involving company formation and structuring, transactional agreements, IP, corporate governance, taxation, licensing, and the acquisition and leasing of property. Our securities litigators work closely with our corporate team, so we know cannabis securities from the perspectives of both issuers and investors, and time and time again we have seen that careful planning and comprehensive disclosure can result in substantial savings for our clients, as well as the avoidance of regulatory problems relating to financial guidance, internal controls and other issues.
Our litigation team has settled and defended many complex, high-stakes securities cases involving claims ranging from fraud to violations of disclosure obligations, breach of fiduciary duty and insider misconduct, at both the federal and state levels. Our starting point, however, is the development of legal strategies that will not only mitigate the risk of future litigation but also help our clients build the durable legal framework they need for long-term growth and success.
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.
View BlogGet started by filling out the form, or call 1-888-330-0010 to schedule an initial consultation.
"*" indicates required fields