Schedule III Classification of Cannabis: Banking, Capital, and Tax Planning for Medical Cannabis Businesses

Mr. Alovisetti is a partner at Vicente LLP and co-chair of the firm's Corporate Department. He advises investors, companies, and other law firms on complex corporate transactions across highly regulated consumer industries: including cannabis, alcohol, hemp, psychedelics, and other emerging regulated products. Mr. Alovisetti has managed hundreds of licensed transactions across some of the most active regulated markets in the country, including New York, Colorado, Massachusetts, and the Washington, D.C. metro area. That cross-jurisdictional experience gives him fluency in the state and local regulatory frameworks that shape stock and asset acquisitions, management and ownership structures, and strategic investment planning in licensed industries. He also counsels emerging growth and portfolio companies on general corporate governance, commercial transactions, and compensation arrangements.

Mr. Landau is a Partner and a member of the firm’s Litigation Group. He represents clients in litigation before Federal, New York State and Local courts and other tribunals, including arbitration and mediation before the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Landau's practice also focuses on providing day-to-day business counseling to cannabis and other businesses with an eye toward avoiding problems before they arise. He has been recognized as a New York Metro Super Lawyer® in the area of Commercial Litigation every year since 2012. In addition, Mr. Landau has received a peer review rating of AV®Preeminent on Martindale-Hubbell®. He has become a thought leader in the New York Cannabis legal community. Mr. Landau frequently writes and speaks on such topics as attorney ethics, cannabis banking and licensing of cannabis businesses. He is currently the President-Elect of the Westchester County Bar Association. Mr. Landau is Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Cannabis Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and Co-Chair of the Cannabis and CBD Litigation Committee of NYSBA’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section. He is also a Founder and Immediate Past Co-Chair of the Westchester County Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Committee and a Director and Chair of the Regulatory Committee of the Hudson Valley Cannabis Industry Association. Mr. Landau is a past president of the White Plains Bar Association.

Mr. Robbins serves as chair of Akerman’s Cannabis Practice, counseling clients on the evolving, complex legal and business issues impacting companies with interests in the regulated substances industries. Ranked by Chambers USA as a top lawyer in Cannabis Law and recognized in 2018 by the National Law Journal as one of the country’s “Cannabis Law Trailblazers,” he has been published and quoted in national media outlets such as U.S. News & World Report, The American Lawyer, Politico, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, and Law360. Mr. Robbins is a founding board member of the National Cannabis Bar Association and is also an active member of the National Cannabis Industry Association. He brings deep experience representing public and private companies and individuals in complex regulatory and litigation matters in the regulated substances sectors. Mr. Robbins experience encompasses investigations and administrative and enforcement proceedings brought by federal, state, and self-regulatory bodies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Florida Attorney General’s Office, Florida Department of Financial Services, and Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.