Mitch Kulick is a co-founder and partner of Feuerstein Kulick and is the head of Feuerstein Kulick’s Cannabis, Securities and Corporate Departments.

Mitch brings a wealth of practical experience and knowledge to his practice and clients as a result of the many hats that he has worn during his 25-year legal career. Mitch’s current client base is primarily comprised of companies, funds, and investors focused on the cannabis industry both in the U.S. and abroad. Mitch advises his clients in all aspects of the cannabis space ranging from corporate governance to capital markets transactions to regulatory compliance. Mitch has also worked directly with state regulatory and licensing bodies in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Mexico.

Prior to co-founding Feuerstein Kulick, Mitch was the General Counsel of Steep Hill Labs, Inc., the country’s first commercial cannabis lab (Oakland 2007) and a current Feuerstein Kulick client. At Steep Hill, Mitch was the Company’s liaison to Steep Hill’s investors and government regulators and also served as the in-house investment banker and lawyer for the Company. Mitch is a charter member of the International Cannabis Standards Board and has been a featured speaker in numerous Cannabis seminars and other industry group functions.

Prior to joining Steep Hill, Mitch spent the previous 8 years as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Iroquois Capital — an active hedge fund and private equity fund in New York City — where he was heavily involved in the drafting of the fund formation documents and advised the fund managers on all aspects of the ’33 Act, ’34 Act and the Investment Advisors Act of 1940. Mitch also gained invaluable experience as an enforcement lawyer in the Northeast Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission and has leveraged that experience to provide practical advice in his representation of funds, investors, and companies in the context of SEC and DOJ matters.

Mitch began his legal career in the New York office of Greenberg Traurig, where he worked on complex corporate reorganizations, labor disputes and securities litigation matters.

Mitch graduated from the University of Michigan (with Honors) and received a JD from Hofstra University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review.

CANNABIS ATTORNEY LICENSED IN NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, MASSACHUSETTS, ILLINOIS, COLORADO, AND WASHINGTON

-Chair, New York City Bar Association, Committee on Drugs and the Law - AKA the Cannabis Law Committee
-Director, Cannabis Advisory Group

Alana Hans-Cohen is a one-woman repository of legal knowledge, rap lyrics, and bad puns. An attorney in the cannabis group at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, Alana is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Washington State, Colorado, and Illinois. A self-proclaimed “cannabis nerd,” who focuses on cannabis law and policy, and how this new, highly regulated industry intersects business, real estate, government, and public policy. She’s pragmatic, direct, with a deep social conscience: the perfect combination for a modern lawyer.

An unbreakable advocate for her clients and their causes, navigating her way through the strange maze of cannabis law with no lawyerish crap along the way. She is a firm believer in the idea of an equitable and diverse legal and regulated cannabis industry, and many have had the benefit of her compassionate and fierce advocacy in their cause. Alana is focused on helping the cannabis industry become less "pale, male, and stale." She always says it like it is, in a voice that’s not hard to hear and she might have speeds other than fast forward, but no one is sure. Up for anything, filled with opinions she is happy to share, Alana is basically a good vibe.

Laid back but certainly not slow moving, Alana is your quintessentially millennial NYC professional. Disinclined to accept that anyone should be asleep if she’s not, maybe Alana never actually sleeps. No one really knows. If there’s one thing for which Alana is famous, apart from her mad skills and taste in music, it is for belying the conventional belief that lawyers are boring. She puts an exclamation mark on that sentence.

• From start-up to exit strategy, representing businesses and individuals at each level of the cannabis supply chain, including state-licensed adult-use cannabis, medical cannabis and hemp cultivators, manufacturers, distributors, and dispensaries, whether vertically integrated or operating as standalone businesses, as well as investors in those businesses.

• Advising a full range of vendors, plant-touching and ancillary, which supply their products and services to the cannabis industry, such as bio-mass, technology, advertising, social media, consumption products and security companies on the considerations pertinent to entering into the cannabis space.

• Assisting cannabis-related clients in understanding and assessing the federal and state regulatory framework for cannabis; applications for licenses to operate and related administrative matters; commercial litigation; negotiating and documenting investments, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions; conducting due diligence on the targets of such transactions; federal, state and local tax issues; day-to-day regulatory advice and general business counsel; and labor and employment, including workplace training and litigating workplace claims.

• Providing to public sector stakeholders involved in legislation, rule-making, regulation and municipal decision-making relevant guidance from established cannabis-friendly states, cannabis industry operators, advocates, and thought leaders.

• Educating and providing actionable perspectives to government and private clients on the “how” of the development of legal access to cannabis at the state and local levels.

Fatima Afia is a cannabis attorney and civil litigator at Rudick Law Group, PLLC, with a background in commercial and business litigation, land use and landmarks law matters, and disability insurance law. As a litigator, Fatima was an instrumental member of the litigation team behind Washington v. Barr, a pro-bono lawsuit brought against the federal government that sought to declare the federal law criminalizing cannabis unconstitutional. As part of her work in Washington v. Barr, Fatima led the effort in securing overwhelming amicus support before the U.S. Supreme Court from seven members of Congress, 19 disparate and highly regarded organizations, and two eminent cannabis researchers and scientists. In connection with her disability insurance work, she has helped secure and maintain disability benefits for clients from some of the largest disability insurance companies in the United States, playing a vital role in the firm's successful administrative appeal against Unum Insurance Company which resulted in an award of approximately $1 million in retroactive benefits for the client. 

As a cannabis attorney, Fatima assists cannabis clients navigate the legal cannabis and hemp industry in the areas of corporate law and regulatory compliance, business transactions, litigation, and state licensing applications in various jurisdictions including New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Fatima is also a social equity advocate, providing instrumental testimony to the Cannabis Control Commission in Massachusetts in 2019 which resulted in an expedited license application-review process for women-and-minority-owned businesses that were unfairly excluded from the regulatory definition of a social equity applicant. Fatima is also an article contributor for Marijuana Venture, has regularly organized and chaired CLE panels and events for the International Cannabis Bar Association (“INCBA”), and is the Co-Chair of INCBA’s CLE Committee. She was the Moot Court Winner at the Medical Cannabis Conference held at Columbia University in 2019, and in 2021 was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine.

Fatima attended Brooklyn Law School where she graduated in the top 20% percent of her graduating class. 

Nick is the Vice President of Legal at Cann Social Tonics (www.drinkcann.com), a leading THC-infused beverage brand in the US and Canada. Prior to joining Cann Social Tonics, Nick was an Intellectual Property Litigation and Cannabis Associate at Goodwin Procter LLP and Sideman & Bancroft LLP in San Francisco, California, where Nick advised clients on a wide range of cannabis (including hemp) regulatory
and intellectual property matters, assisted the firms in founding their respective cannabis practice groups, and represented clients with respect to various intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution matters.