Navigating Complexity. Identifying Opportunity. Strategic Execution.
DeMartinis Law Group advises businesses, investors, operators, and strategic partners in emerging and regulated industries where commercial objectives must be pursued within evolving legal, regulatory, and operational frameworks. The firm brings substantial experience advising cannabis businesses and related stakeholders on transactions, corporate structuring, commercial relationships, licensing arrangements, governance, expansion, and strategic initiatives.
The firm understands that businesses operating in regulated markets face considerations extending beyond technical legal compliance. Regulatory requirements can affect ownership, financing, transaction structure, governance, operations, branding, commercial relationships, and the timing and execution of strategic initiatives. DeMartinis Law Group works with clients and appropriate regulatory counsel to develop practical structures that account for those constraints while preserving commercial objectives and supporting long-term growth.
Representative services include:
- Mergers, acquisitions, investments, and strategic exits in regulated industries
- Ownership structures, governance arrangements, and regulatory considerations affecting transactions
- Joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and management and operating arrangements
- Brand licensing, intellectual-property transactions, and strategic collaborations
- Cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, retail, and other regulated-industry commercial agreements
Selected Experience:
- Served as outside general counsel and lead transaction counsel to a California investment and operating platform in multiple acquisitions and strategic transactions involving cannabis retail, cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, real estate, intellectual property, and branded consumer products.
- Structured acquisitions, staged investments, joint ventures, governance arrangements, and ownership transitions involving regulated cannabis businesses, including transactions requiring regulatory approvals and specialized ownership structures.
- Negotiated licensing and collaboration transactions involving nationally recognized talent, cannabis brands, trademarks, publicity rights, product development, commercialization, and expansion into domestic and international markets.
- Advised cannabis operators, investors, and strategic partners on cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, retail, management-services, and commercial arrangements requiring the integration of regulatory constraints with operational and economic objectives.