Cannabis

In a pioneering and rapidly evolving industry, cannabis businesses require representation that will help them easily navigate the complex regulatory and corporate matters required to start, grow, or exit their business successfully.

Our cannabis clients operate across the sector including producers, retailers, researchers, and pharmaceuticals, as well as ancillaries such as vaping, edibles and topicals. Goodmans Cannabis group has assisted these public, private, and government clients with:

• Regulatory compliance – our deep and long standing experience and expertise include guiding the first and third non-incumbent licensed producers in Canada in their initial licensing and their private and public financing and capital market transactions.
• Cross-border strategic business advice and transactions – we were counsel on some of the earliest cross-border transactions for US and Latin American cannabis businesses accessing Canadian capital markets and we are counsel in many of the restructuring transactions during the current right-sizing and consolidation of the industry both in Canada and in the U.S.
• Financing, including Private Equity.
• Transactions and acquisitions.
• Initial Public Offerings – we were counsel on the first-ever cannabis-focused TSX SPAC IPO, and the first cannabis SPAC qualifying acquisitions in Canada.
• Intellectual Property matters.
• Business restructuring.
• Real estate acquisition and leasing for production and storage facilities.