Cannabis Law: Eastern United States

Established in 2014, Foley’s Cannabis Industry Team is one of the most experienced legal teams focused on the cannabis industry, bringing together significant experience from multiple practice disciplines to comprehensively advise clients involved in the space as well as clients within supporting and peripheral industries. Our Cannabis Industry Team includes a deep bench of more than 60 attorneys nationwide and in Mexico City.

We appreciate the opportunities presented by the emerging cannabis industry and are committed to helping clients navigate the complexities of federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Our dedicated legal team develops creative and agile business solutions that allow businesses, lenders, investors, cultivators, processors, caregivers, transporters, landlords, and others to address current contradictions between agencies and jurisdictions, without limiting future options when those contradictions are resolved. Foley has played a key role in some of the highest profile transactions in the industry to date.

Foley’s Cannabis Industry Team advises clients on best practices regarding corporate formation and finance, joint ventures, tax strategies, industry-focused compliance programs, patent and intellectual property protections, real estate leasing, multistate licensing, SEC compliance, and in connection with government investigations involving the Department of Justice, the SEC, and other enforcement authorities.