Stevens & Lee provides strategic guidance and comprehensive legal representation to businesses, investors and individuals operating and seeking to operate in the adult-use and medical cannabis markets of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. As a full-service law firm with business-minded professionals, Stevens & Lee is a one-stop shop for our cannabis industry clients.
Our Cannabis Law Group has experience guiding clients from entity formation through the licensure process to eventual market entry. Our attorneys also have substantial experience working on cannabis-related business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and financing transactions, and have successfully litigated matters on behalf of our cannabis clients involving licensure awards, local endorsements and certification of diversely owned business entities.
Our clients include licensed cultivators, processors, distributors and retailers operating or soon to be operating in New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Maryland as well as licensed operators and businesses ancillary to the cannabis industry in other states across the country.
To meet the multifaceted challenges presented by our cannabis clients, we draw from our deep bench of practice areas across the firm, including our real estate, corporate, land use, intellectual property, health care and tax groups. We work collaboratively to address each client’s unique needs.
We also provide advice to employers regarding the impact of the cannabis industry on their businesses and operations, and to health care providers regarding compliance with Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s medical cannabis laws.
From inception to ongoing operations our lawyers assist cannabis businesses and related service providers every step of the way, including:
