国际大麻组织继续关注美国市场
尽管COVID-19导致世界大部分地区的经济放缓，但许多行业的商业交易仍在继续。公司继续寻求战略收购、合作和投资，因为他们进入新的国际市场，或寻求将其部分业务或供应链从高风险市场（如中国）转移到东南亚的低风险市场。
中国真的会购买更多的美国大麻吗？没有保证
过去几周，以特朗普总统为中心的两件大事一直在展开，每一件事都交替地占据了风头，又被另一件事所掩盖了。首先，我们有正在进行的参议院弹劾听证会，该听证会于1月16日开始；其次，美中贸易协定的第一阶段，该协定于1月15日签署并公开。
Cannabis Taxation: C Corp, S Corp, LLC, LLP, Partnership, Nonprofit, or Something Else for Your Cannabis Business?
One of the most fundamental questions facing any businessperson in the cannabis industry and every other industry is: “What type of business entity should I use?” This is such a loaded question that your lawyer or accountant will first respond with, “That depends,” and then they will need to ask you at least ten follow-up
Utah Cannabis Investment Fraud: Know Your Securities Laws
It is trite of me to say so, but the current “gold rush” in the U.S. has prospectors dreaming of double-fisting cannabis buds and greenbacks, and that makes for fertile fraud soil. In this green rush, investors are voraciously putting money into cannabis ventures that are, in some instances, producing vast amounts of cash and
Marijuana Business Financing: Tough Questions From Investors
As veteran marijuana business owners (and virtually every other type of industry owners) know, there may come a point in time in the business when you are sitting across the table from someone who is offering to put money into your business. They may be your prospective business partner. They may be your close friends
Hemp/CBD Litigation: Curaleaf Hit With Federal Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Securities Violations
Just a few weeks ago, Curaleaf Holdings (“Curaleaf”) announced that it would pay $875 million, mostly in stock, to acquire a Chicago based cannabis company, Grassroots. (See here.) This followed news in May that Curaleaf had reached a nearly $1 billion all-stock deal with one of Oregon’s biggest cannabis companies, Cura Partners, Inc. (See here).
Cannabis Securities Litigation: Don’t Expect to Put One Past the SEC
Since 2014 we’ve cautioned investors about publicly traded marijuana stocks. Back then we cautioned would-be investors about “pot companies that are trading at frothy levels that are not well-positioned to compete in the marijuana marketplace.” More recently, we’ve written about the scale of mergers, acquisitions, and cross border work, how to “raise money right,” and
Take Your Hemp or CBD Company Public on the TSX
Banking, intellectual property, food and beverage (and cosmetics), international trade, domestic trade, state laws, ag production contracts, etc., etc. When it comes to industrial hemp, the 2018 Farm Bill upended all of these things. Our cannabis business lawyers have been busy advising a large number of new hemp and hemp-CBD businesses getting in on the
Oregon Cannabis Securities: Raising Money Right
The deals in Oregon cannabis are getting very big and much of what we do these days involves mergers, acquisitions and cross border work. It’s amazing this happened so fast. Less than four years ago, as the OLCC began writing rules for the adult use marijuana industry, there was a distinct small business tenor to
Industrial Hemp and the Banks: Slow Going
We have spilled a lot of ink on this blog related to the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp at the federal level. It’s huge news. And there are so many ramifications, from food law to trademarks to the financial services environment. This blog post is going to cover financial institutions and hemp at about