Cannabis Legal Services Offered By Rattner Law

When things go wrong, we’re armed and ready to protect our clients’ rights. We get right to the heart of issues and stay laser-focused on achieving our clients’ goals, whether in court, mediation, or arbitration. Our deep knowledge of the highly regulated cannabis industry allows us to identify issues that others do not, and provides our clients with a distinct advantage in resolving disputes.

Our extensive litigation experience includes everything from litigating cutting edge issues to routine business disputes. For example, we have litigated novel issues in New York State Court like the legality of the New York State Cannabis Control Board’s position that it must deny every license application that fails to achieve a waiver in the public convenience and advantage. Similarly, our founder has resented a well-known functional mushroom brand before the federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to challenge trademark applications of a knock off brand on the basis that the infringer could not have had a bona fide intent to use the applied-for mark due to the content of its products at the time of the application’s filing.

Clients also rely upon us when winning is urgent and paramount. For example, we have secured temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions to prevent the destruction of businesses and imminent harm to founders and their employees.

We also handle more routine business disputes such as breach of contract matters, payment disputes, and employment law claims. Whether your matter raises issues that nobody has litigated before or your business has a dispute that cannot be resolved amicably, we can handle it.

The attorneys at Rattner Law are here to assist clients as they navigate the license application process. Whether you want help applying for a license, renewing a license, or are deep in the weeds on your True Party of Interest/ownership and control disclosures, we are familiar with the issues license applicants and their owners face. Similarly, we routinely assist license applicants in correcting application deficiencies, and go to bat for applicants whose applications are stuck in limbo.

One of the most valuable assets businesses have is their brand and other intellectual property. A business that licenses its intellectual property to a reputable partner expands its market reach in a cost-effective way. We help businesses evaluate potential partners through due diligence, and then partner with them to negotiate intellectual property licensing agreements that bring new brands to market and expand the reach of existing brands, all while protecting our clients’ intellectual property.

Some founders want to run their cannabis businesses forever. Others, though, seek to exit their businesses via a sale of their equity to their partners or to other businesses. The attorneys at Rattner Law guide individuals through mergers, acquisitions, and exits by counseling them about finding the right partners, conducting due diligence, and negotiating and drafting the agreements required to achieve the sale on fair terms that ensure our clients receive payment.

Rattner Law serves as outside general counsel to numerous businesses in the cannabis industry. We routinely advise our clients on day-to-day legal issues that are unique to the cannabis industry as well as more routine legal issues that occur when running any business such as labor and employment issues, and contract review and drafting. Our advice is clear, actionable, and takes into account business and market realities.