Mitigating and Addressing Litigation Risks for Cannabis Businesses
Cannabis M&A: Pain Points and Opportunities
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Companies and the Corporate Transparency Act
Intellectual property considerations for launching new cannabis products
Unpacking the current cannabis regulatory landscape and how it impacts your business
Video: Food for Thought and Thoughts on Food: Innovating USDA Science with Sanah Baig, Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Inside a Top MSO with Jushi's EVP of Legal Affairs Matt Leeth
If Cannabis Is Reclassified, What Will Happen to the Marketplace? – Diagnosing Health Care
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Farmers First According to Humboldt Trim Company
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: THC Infused Beverages: Cantrip's Journey Through the Hemp-Derived Looking Glass
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Investing in the U.S. - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: The ‘CannaBoies' Lawsuit and Why it Matters
Internal Investigations and the Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Industry
Cybersecurity Threats Facing Food and Agribusiness Companies & the Preparation and Protection Safeguards to Help Mitigate Them
A Look Inside the Expanding Cannabis-Infused Beverage Market With the CEO of Hillview, Producer of Hemp-Infused Seltzer Brand Kaló
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast Episode Five: Exploring Succession and Generational Change with Kevin Adams, Managing Director for The Mountain Group
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast Episode Four: The Financialization of Agriculture with David Muth from Alternative Equity Advisors
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast Episode Three: Diversity in Agriculture: From its People to its Products with Elin Miller, Founder of Umpqua Nut Farms & Umpqua Vineyards
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast Episode Two: A Bright Future for Agriculture with Phil Ward, CEO of Oregon Future Farmers of America
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast Episode One: Keeping America Fed with Jeff Huckaby, President & CEO of Grimmway Farms
The past two years have seen significant growth in the number of mergers and acquisitions nationwide with many agriculture and farming business owners choosing to liquefy their assets and move on. At the same time, employers...more
Le secteur de l’agroalimentaire et des produits alimentaires et embouteillés figure au nombre des secteurs les plus durement touchés par la pandémie de COVID-19. Malgré l’assouplissement des restrictions et le retour à un...more
The food, beverage and agribusiness (FBA) industry was among the most impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite restrictions easing, and the industry returning to a degree of normalcy, businesses operating in the space...more
Deals in the consumer and retail sector show signs of recovery as consumer spending rallies post-pandemic - The consumer and retail sector has had a turbulent year. Some sub-sectors, including non-essential and physical...more
In his first significant legislative achievement in office, President Biden quickly signed the American Rescue Plan, legislation passed by Congress providing $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief to Americans and businesses...more
With only three weeks until the first legislative deadline, higher profile legislative initiatives have started moving through committees and, in some cases, been voted on by the full House or Senate. Next Friday, February...more
Whatever your position on fur coats is, you should be worried about the effect of COVID-19 on the mink industry. As of this writing, the disease has been found on mink farms in nine countries: Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Sweden,...more
The Farm Credit Group here at Nexsen Pruet has compiled the highlights from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (recently passed as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021) that...more
In this episode, host Kermit Nash, co-chair of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness (FBA) Practice, speaks with fellow FBA Practice co-chair, Jonathan Havens, on the portfolios of the U.S. Food and...more
In this episode, host Jonathan Havens speaks with Kermit Nash, both of whom are co-chairs of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness (FBA) Practice, about how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the...more
Under State aid rules, UK and EEA Member State governments may not generally provide selective assistance to businesses without prior approval from the European Commission (EC). This includes assistance in the form of...more
New York state seemed poised to legalize marijuana in 2020 – but those efforts, like so many others, were thwarted by COVID-19. However, we can expect this unfinished business to remain on the radar – with legalization seen...more
The USDA is allowing more comments on its new hemp rule. The House voted to allow marijuana research. We have an update on the Nebraska situation. Illinois’ social equity program comes under fire, while Maryland’s program is...more
Earlier this month, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of New York filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court against Hillandale Farms alleging that the company gouged egg prices during the COVID-19 pandemic....more
On August 13, 2020, Governor Jay Inslee issued Proclamation 20-67: Food Production Workers Paid Leave. Proclamation 20-67 modifies previous proclamations to prohibit any food production employer from continuing to operate...more
Governor Wolf announced on August 25, 2020, a call to action for the state legislature to legalize recreational marijuana, which he cited as a strong potential source of revenue for the commonwealth. ...more
More on TikTok’s plans to sue the U.S. over the White House’s recent executive orders seeking to block the app on American soil and force its owner, ByteDance, to sell its American assets. The company intends to argue that...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has already been declared as history's gravest economic crisis. Chancellor Angela Merkel described the current situation as "the most challenging crisis we have faced since the Second World War." But...more
The UK government’s Dairy Produce Order of May 1, 2020, which temporarily relaxed the application of UK competition law to certain types of cooperation in the dairy sector between dairy produce suppliers or dairy logistic...more
Après s’être débattues pendant plusieurs mois, les entreprises canadiennes exerçant des activités dans le secteur de l’agroalimentaire et des produits alimentaires et embouteillés sont maintenant en mesure de revenir sur ce...more
Having weathered the storm for several months, Canadian food, beverage and agribusiness (FBA) businesses are now in a position to reflect upon what they have learned throughout this pandemic. Members of our Food, Beverage &...more
In Washington: Sens. Ben Cardin (R-MD) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) led a letter from a group of 31 senators calling on Senate leadership to include an international response to COVID-19 in the next coronavirus package....more
The European wine sector has been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to statistics from the European Commission (EC), there has been a 30% reduction in the volume of wine sold and a 50% drop in the value of...more
As of June 15, the Small Business Administration (SBA) again began accepting Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and EIDL grant (Grant) applications from qualifying small businesses in addition to agriculture businesses....more
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March relaxed its labeling requirements for food manufacturers and restaurants to aid the distribution and sale of food...more