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OCM Guidance Regarding Ownership Transfers Provides Pathway for Funding Social Equity Licensees

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The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (“OCM”) conducted its license lottery for social equity applicants on June 5, 2025. Lottery winners received preliminary approval and must secure a business location and, in many...more

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Recent SEC AML Enforcement Against Securities Firms Engaged in Cannabis Sector

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The evolving regulatory landscape for marijuana-related businesses poses unique compliance challenges for firms in the securities industry. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) continues to enforce its 2014...more

A&O Shearman

Southern District Of New York Grants Motion To Dismiss Putative Securities Class Action Against Cannabis Company For Failure To...

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On July 17, 2024, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action against a cannabis company and three of its officers....more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Class Action Lawsuit Dismissed: Commercial Division Finds Company’s Alleged Misrepresentations and Omissions During Stock Sale...

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Many of us have previously heard the expression that there is a fine line between fact and fiction.  In securities law that holds especially true where companies that risk walking the “fine line” in their registration...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Securities Regulators Provide Guidance to Improve Transparency for Reporting Issuers in the Cannabis Industry, Providing Lessons...

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On November 12, 2019, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published Multilateral Staff Notice 51-359 Corporate Governance Related Discourse Expectations for Reporting Issuers in the Cannabis Industry ("MSN51-359") to...more

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