Leasing to a Cannabis-Related Business: Banking, Permitting, Zoning, Rent, Indemnification, and Insurance

Mr. Palmese’s practice focuses on the representation of purchasers, sellers, investors, developers, lenders, tenants, and landlords in all facets of their commercial real estate portfolios, including C-PACE, bridge, permanent and mezzanine financing, and solar, retail, and office leasing. He has been a member of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council’s Sustainability Initiative, which focuses on the intersection of climate risk and commercial real estate finance, since its inception in 2021. He has served as a curator on the Content Committee for the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s Building Energy NYC conference—a conference dedicated to sustainability in real estate and decarbonizing the built environment.

Mr. Bench helps entrepreneurs, companies, and venture capital and private equity funds with international and domestic business transactions. His clientele stretches across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. National and global trade organizations regularly invite Mr. Bench to speak regarding international business transactions, particularly foreign direct investment to and from the U.S. and China. He is an emerging legal expert in the fast-moving and complex web3 ecosystem, including business and regulatory issues surrounding decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), smart contracts, decentralized finance (defi), cryptocurrencies, coins, and tokens, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs). He has worked on wide-ranging blockchain projects involving various international DAO communities, NFT artists and studios, layer-2 blockchain developers, metaverse companies, and celebrity brand influencers.

Mr. Sampson focuses his insurance coverage practice on assisting policyholders across various industries to address and resolve complicated insurance coverage matters relating to commercial general liability policies, property insurance, management liability coverages, and many other types of insurance, such as cyber liability, hull and marine liability, specie insurance and pollution liability insurance. While he routinely counsels clients at various stages on a wide range of insurance coverage matters, a significant portion of his practice is dedicated to litigating coverage claims against insurance companies and/or third-party claims administrators.