By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Business Insider Start your day knowing what traders are talking about with our Finance newsletter. The firm also helped Canopy Growth, a publicly traded marijuana cultivator, cross-list on the NYSE in May.For Barry, who was instrumental in building out Dorsey's cannabis practice alongside co-head Mike Weiner, being at the forefront of the new industry is what keeps him going. "As the industry expanded, I found there was a huge demand for my services," Berlin said. "It's something I take pride in because these are really difficult deals in a very volatile marketplace," she said.Since she's worked in the industry, Bricken said 2018 marked a turning point: "We're seeing more and better diversity in the field. He'd spent three years working at the law firm before moving to Toronto to start Cronos in 2016.Matthew Goodman, an associate at Sullivan who worked on the deal, said he and Gorenstein were in the same first-year class at the firm and spent time working on the M&A floor together. "We have a lot of lawyers who have experience in heavily regulated industries like alcohol," Dibble added.

Expect to see tie-ups with consumer packaged goods, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies either through joint ventures or strategic acquisitions, she said.

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Barry M. Marder Rancho Mirage - Barry M. Marder, born July 19, 1939 and raised in Long Island, New York, passed away in Rancho Mirage, CA. "We look at everything from a law-firm perspective," Balakrishnan added. "Goldberg, a seasoned trial lawyer with decades of experience, said he spearheaded the firm's involvement in the industry in 2014 after Colorado became the first state to allow recreational pot shops.And for Kumar, the opportunity to become an expert in a field where there's "a new development every week" was something he couldn't turn down.Duane Morris represented iAnthus, a US cannabis company, Hilary Bricken has been around the cannabis industry for a long time. "In the past year, Gillette was part of a team on a landmark case against the cofounders of the Colorado-dispensary Sweet Leaf, winning $8.8 million for her clients.She also continues her advocacy work around section 280E of the federal tax code, which, Gillette says, forces law-abiding marijuana businesses to pay prohibitively high tax rates.As a partner in Baker Botts' San Francisco office, Samuel Dibble has been at the forefront of the burgeoning cannabis industry since its inception.The firm has made a push to grow its presence in California, and cannabis deals have consumed lots of oxygen in the state in the past year, Dibble said.

"Since that first deal, Davies has ramped up its M&A work in the sector, particularly after Canada legalized marijuana federally last year. "This is more fun than a barrel of monkeys," Barry said. "Right now there are very few firms that provide the really high-level counseling and transactional work cannabis companies need," Berlin said.

on February 14, 2019. Cannabis is one of the "few emerging markets that has multibillion-dollar potential. Additional troubleshooting information here. "I approached the CEO of the firm the following day and told him we'll be kicking ourselves if we miss this opportunity," he said.That was at the outset of Florida's medical-marijuana program, which has now blossomed into a big business, with many US marijuana retailers vying for a piece of the market.Robbins is now the chair of Akerman's Cannabis Practice Group, which he says is one of the first cannabis practices at a national US law firm.Many of the firm's clients, either private-equity funds, family offices, or high-net-worth individuals, provide a lot of the financing for the cannabis industry as traditional financial institutions like big banks remain wary of working with marijuana businesses, Robbins said.In the past year, Robbins has helped Green Growth Brands, an Ohio marijuana retailer, acquire valuable grow facilities in Nevada and has "Just as you're starting to see more sophisticated law firms dip their toes in the water, we're seeing the same thing with more established, sophisticated businesspeople," Robbins added.He said that the size and complexity of the deals he's worked on have dramatically increased as well. "But it just ups the level of everything. "Look, I'm 71 years old. Disclaimer: BeenVerified’s mission is to give people easy and affordable access to public record information. Marder also co-wrote the DreamWorks film Bee Movie, with Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, and Andy Robin, which was released on November 2, 2007. Courtesy of Dorsey & Whitney