Cannabis Law

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Provided by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

The global legal marijuana market is expected to reach USD 146.4 billion by end of 2025. The growth of the cannabis industry necessitates well-informed, agile legal counsel capable of navigating the gauntlet of federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing this emerging sector. Featuring members from nearly every practice group, Sheppard Mullin’s Cannabis Team is poised to help the firm serve current clients and new clients including retailers, processors, growers, investors, and ancillary businesses participate in this booming industry. Sheppard Mullin’s Cannabis Team can help cannabis businesses and ancillary businesses, including CBD based or infused products, with a wide array of issues attendant to legal cannabis business activities, including raising and deploying capital, litigation, banking and finance, accounting control and anti-money laundering compliance, real estate development and leasing, protecting intellectual property, public company representation and SEC filings, land use and zoning, investigations and taxation. In addition to advising participants in the medical and adult-use marijuana industries, as the industry has grown Sheppard Mullin attorneys experienced in cannabis-related issues frequently advise clients in other sectors whose businesses intersect with the cannabis industry, including with respect to real estate development, banking and financing, insurance and employment issues.