Cannabis

Pryor Cashman’s Cannabis Group works with numerous public companies, start-ups, entrepreneurs, investors, influencers, and other key stakeholders in the development and creation of marijuana, hemp, CBD, and cannabis-related and cannabis-adjacent products, including company formations, mergers + acquisitions, joint ventures, capital raising, exchange listings, real estate, and public-figure endorsements, as well as trademark, patent and other IP-related issues, and more.

Our Cannabis practice combines the talents of our intellectual property, corporate, restaurant, food + beverage, real estate, labor + employment, and life sciences attorneys to provide pragmatic and actionable advice that carefully assesses the ongoing risks and opportunities in this highly regulated and dynamic environment.

Our recent experience includes the representation of:

• Greenlane Holdings, Inc. (“Greenlane”), a leading distributor of premium vaporization products and consumption accessories, in numerous matters including its:
  • IPO and successful listing on NASDAQ;
  • acquisition of Pollen Gear™, a leading producer of premium, customizable child-resistant packaging solutions;
  • relevant trademark work, including prosecution, enforcement, and defense;
  • formation and distribution agreements, which include leasing and buying real estate; and
  • financings, including their $48.25 million convertible note deal and their recently completed bridge loan.
• High Tide Inc., a Canadian cannabis company focused on the manufacture and wholesale distribution of smoking accessories and lifestyle products, as the first major publicly traded cannabis retailer, in connection with its NASDAQ listing.
• A famous rolling paper company in various trademark-related matters, patent-related services concerning the use of THC-infused rolling papers, patent prosecution concerning a THC extraction process from marijuana leaves, etc. 
• Meta Therapeutics Inc. in connection with general corporate governance, investment, intellectual property, and general commercial matters.
• Savage Garden, a New Jersey-based cannabis company, in connection with the development of a cannabis incubator in New Jersey.
• Savage Valley, a California-based cannabis company, in connection with various capital raises and intellectual property matters.
• High Street LLC, a company specializing in putting on cannabis-themed events, including the National Cannabis Festival.
• Brulee, a start-up company developing artificial intelligence and machine learning technology in connection with cannabis testing.  
• Lifeist Wellness Inc., a health-tech company that leverages advancements in science and technology to enable people to find their path to wellness, in connection with the conduct of operations in the United States.
• Numerous restaurant, food + beverage clients regarding CBD-infused food, beverages, and other products in view of recent New York Department of Health enforcement actions, New York State Department of Agriculture guidelines, and FDA pronouncements regarding the prohibition on using CBD as a food or beverage additive.
• A food product packager in connection with regulatory issues involving the use of CBD in food products.
• An entity that created marijuana vaporizers where we provided patent advice and U.S. Design Patent prosecution work.
• Multiple well-known cosmetic brands on trademark clearance issues relating to products containing cannabis sativa oil.
• A California-based company that is developing proprietary product formulations and processing methodologies and utilizing various nano- and micro-encapsulation, agglomeration, and liquefying or drying processes to convert hydrophobic cannabinoid oils (marijuana THC and hemp CBD) into highly-soluble THC and CBD that can be used in foods and beverages and in a wide range of cosmetic and medicinal applications. 
• An investor in connection with its investment in a medical and recreational marijuana distributor in the State of Maine.