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Phantom Stock – Why Private Cannabis Companies Should Take Note

Privately held cannabis companies might want to give serious consideration to awarding their employees “phantom stock” rather than equity options. Working so close to Silicon Valley and its “option holder” millionaires, can make it easy for California entrepreneurs to forget the many challenges private companies face when awarding equity options to employees. Obviously, private companies lack a public market for

Rogoway Law Group November 21, 2018

Cannabis Startup 101: Building a Strong Foundation for Your Cannabis Business

Starting a company is intimidating for most, if not all, early stage entrepreneurs. Often founders are product-focused and put legal concerns on the back burner in hopes that they can get up and running before incurring legal expenses. Unfortunately, in the cannabis space especially, it’s important to have legal advice at the outset of the business to avoid later excess

Hilary St. Jean November 1, 2018

Three Important “Drafting Tips” When Negotiating Cross Border Cannabis Transactions

As the world continues to shrink, cross border transactions continue to become more common, even in the cannabis field where more countries are legalizing both medicinal and recreational use of cannabis. Today, there are at least thirty countries that allow the cultivation, manufacturing and use of medicinal cannabis (Argentina, Australia, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Thailand, etc.). A handful

Rogoway Law Group October 30, 2018

Tilray's implications for “medicinal” cannabis companies

What the Heck Happened Last Week at Tilray? And its implications for “medicinal” cannabis companies.

What Tilray’s IPO means for “medicinal” cannabis companies? Tilray, Inc. describes itself as “a global pioneer in the research, cultivation, production, and distribution of medical cannabis and cannabinoids.” However, last week’s events make a pretty good case that Tilray (Nasdaq: TLRY) is not a pharmaceutical company after all despite being branded as one by companies like Yahoo Finance. This is very good

Rogoway Law Group September 25, 2018

Insurance coverage for cannabis businesses in California

Selecting the Right Insurance for Your Cannabis Business

California cannabis licensees face a lot of risks, from business competition to regulatory uncertainty, to unforeseen disasters and lawsuits of all types. Cannabis companies can act to protect themselves from certain risk by obtaining specific types of insurance. State-Mandated Insurance Requirements for Cannabis Businesses While the state’s governing statute for commercial cannabis activity, MAUCRSA, does not require cannabis companies to

Rogoway Law Group June 15, 2018

Converting Mutual Benefit Corporations into For-Profit Corporations

Over the past few months, many cannabis collectives organized as non-profit mutual benefit corporations under prior law, such as the 2004 Medical Marijuana Program Act, have asked us to help them convert into for-profit general share corporations (C Corps.). This isn’t surprising because the laws have changed and because cannabis operators wanting to attract new-money investors are learning fast that

Rogoway Law Group May 24, 2018

Cannabis Valuations: Canada & California

A practical guide to establishing valuation Over the last 12 months one of the most frequent questions we get at Bowman/Hanson is; why are the Canadian companies valued so high? The follow up question is “since there are very few industry “comps”, isn’t it reasonable to apply Canadian valuations to my US cannabis business?” This document is designed to shed

Rogoway Law Group April 6, 2018

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