Ice Miller’s Cannabis Group recognizes how quickly this industry is evolving and growing, which is why we have assembled a team with a history of representing dynamic and heavily regulated industries to serve our clients’ needs. The Firm has substantial multistate experience in the cannabis industry and regularly advises businesses, governments, investors, banks, suppliers, innovators and others as they navigate the growing and constantly changing legal cannabis market. Ice Miller continues to be at the forefront of cannabis issues with public policy makers. Our group experience includes all derivatives of cannabis and hemp.
Comprehensive Legal and Advocacy Support
Ice Miller’s cannabis professionals offer extensive multidisciplinary experience including:
- Government Advocacy and Grassroots – Providing direct advocacy as the primary interface between government officials and regulators relating to the industry, including providing guidance and changes to local, state and federal laws. Our governmental relations team is at the front line on getting laws passed to support growth in the industry;
- Regulatory Compliance – Assisting clients with a best practices approach with regulatory compliance to ensure proactive compliance while assisting in resolving compliance problems;
- Licensing – Helping clients on licensure applications for cultivators, processors, dispensaries, laboratories and health care service providers including advocacy work;
- Litigation – Helping clients address trade secret issues, appeal denial of licenses and address disputes between cannabis-related businesses;
- Financial Services & Banking – Ensuring proper compliance for financial institutions, and subsequent investigations, enforcement, and litigation related to banking with cannabis-related clients;
- Corporate – Providing services to help structure business organizations, mergers and acquisitions, document financing, and the acquisition of real estate for the industry; and
- Labor – Advising employers regarding the growing number of compliance issues and employee issues related to this industry.
- Real Estate - Representing clients on acquisition and required approvals for cannabis-related business.
Again, Ice Miller utilizes a cross-functional team of lawyers and professions to handle the variety of issues involved with cannabis use. Members of our team, with a broad array of experience, routinely serve cannabis-related businesses from the following areas of practice:
- Banking and Financial Services
- Banking Regulatory / Compliance
- Business Services
- Corporate
- Employee Benefits
- Energy
- Environmental
- Food and Agribusiness
- Health Care
- Intellectual Property
- Data Security/Privacy
- Economic Development
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Labor
- Litigation
- Manufacturing
- Outside General Counsel
- Public Affairs / Government Law
- Real Estate
- Regulatory Compliance
- Tax