Lisa Gora

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Lisa Gora, a shareholder in Baker Donelson's Metropark (Iselin), New Jersey office, provides comprehensive legal guidance to clients on regulatory compliance, corporate transactions, and emerging industries. With extensive experience in health care, cannabis, and psychedelic law, she is a trusted advisor to health care providers and businesses navigating complex regulatory frameworks.

Health care providers and businesses turn to Ms. Gora for advice on regulatory compliance and representation in corporate transactions. She regularly advises health care professionals, group practices, hospitals, academic medical centers, ambulatory surgery centers, management service organizations, ambulatory care facilities, substance use treatment facilities, mental health facilities, and nursing homes.

Ms. Gora analyzes federal and state statutes and regulations, including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law, New Jersey's Codey Law, the federal and New Jersey False Claims Acts, licensing and reimbursement issues, Board of Medical Examiners regulations, and other fraud and abuse laws. She provides clients with guidance on mergers, acquisitions, entity formation, joint ventures, affiliation agreements, and management services arrangements. Ms. Gora also helps clients understand the complexities of ownership of health care practices and cannabis entities, particularly regarding buying into and separating from these practices.

With years of experience in the cannabis industry, Ms. Gora helps clients navigate the complex and evolving regulatory landscape. She represents alternative treatment centers in the medicinal cannabis space and advises startups and multi-state operators in the adult-use cannabis industry, including cultivators, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, delivery services, and testing laboratories. Ms. Gora assists with licensing, ownership, and regulatory compliance under state laws, as well as issues related to mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, she advises physicians, hospitals, and others on matters related to medicinal cannabis in New Jersey.

Ms. Gora's experience extends to the psychedelic sector as well. She guides researchers, academic medical centers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other stakeholders through the legal and regulatory challenges in this emerging field. She serves as co-chair of the psychedelic subcommittee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and is a former chair of the Health Law Section and past co-chair of the Cannabis Law Committee.

Ms. Gora was editor-in-chief of Health Care and the Business of Cannabis: Legal Questions and Answers, a pioneering publication by the American Health Law Association. She also co-authored "Medical Marijuana: State and Federal Law Thickets and Practical Implications" in the Health Law Handbook, published by Thomson Reuters in 2020.