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About McKöena Law

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From providing strategic advice on complex acquisitions and regulatory matters to guiding companies doing IPOs and subsequent offerings, McKöena Cannabis Group is able to leverage its unmatched experience in Canadian business law to assist our clients achieve their objectives in this rapidly expanding sector.

As one of Canada’s most active legal advisors in the sector, we have been at the forefront of the recent wave of cannabis industry transactions. In addition to advising on public and private business developments and other strategic transactions, we have worked on a large number of successful new businesses now engaged in Canada’s first cannabis-focused SPAC.

Our multidisciplinary team and industry partners has a deep bench of experience in the life science & healthcare industry and includes lawyers from our Intellectual Property and Employment & Labour practice groups, among others. The team advises on supply agreements, joint venture arrangements, licensing agreements, regulatory matters, intellectual property matters, and other strategic initiatives. Clients include cannabis producers, investors, financiers, advisory firms, underwriters, agents, and pharmaceutical companies in Canada, the United States and around the world. This wealth of experience has given us an unparalleled understanding of the industry and enables us to work with clients to manage and minimize risk while achieving their business goals.

About Kashmeel McKöena

Senior Partner

 

Major Kashmeel McKöena (retired) spent several years as a Military lawyer with the Office of Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2012, Major McKöena retired from the JAG and entered private practice with McKöena Professional Law Corporation.

Major McKöena now primarily focuses his legal practice on Small Business Development, In-House Consulting and the McKöena Cannabis Practice Group that provides innovative and practical solutions to clients in the cannabis industry.

Major McKöena attended York University where he studied political science and mass communication. He later enrolled in Queens University Law School in 1995 and graduated with the Law class of ’98.

Major McKöena also enrolled in the International Business and Law program at Queens University International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle in England, UK and graduated with a certificate in International Business and Law (technology law business development).

Upon graduation from Queens Law, Major McKöena accepted and completed his legal articles with a major Bay Street law firm in Toronto. During his legal articles, Major McKöena spend considerable emphasis on high technology law and business development transactions. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2000.

In July 2000, Major McKöena was retained as an in-house counsel with Ascom AG a technology design and development firm in Switzerland. During his tenure at Ascom AG, Major McKöena worked on several Ascom’s applicable research and technology (AR&T)’s patents and trademarks with regards to internal re-organization of products & solutions offered to customers. Working closely with Ascom AR&T technology engineers involved in product & solutions development to define specific product content and IP related matters for licensing business.

Major McKöena also liaised with Ascom’s AR&T marketing department to devise Ascom’s 3G/UMTS IP business strategy and implementation in anticipation of the European deployment of 3G network operations and service in 2001. Major McKöena initiated the re-organization of Ascom AR&T global Internet presence through constructive media proposals that were aimed at making Ascom AR&T products more focused and effective to potential partners/customers.

Major McKöena has participated in several business developments training seminars, law seminars, information technology development & marketing conferences; including as a delegate and guest speaker at the 2000 Europe System on CHIP for a connected Worldheld in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ascom AR&T 2001 & 2002 Conferences on Business Opportunities for UMTS held in Hoechenschwand, Germany

In the last few years, Major McKöena and the McKöena Cannabis Practice Group has been leading the cannabis industry that is quickly evolving in Canada, amid a complex and rapidly changing regulatory scheme. McKöena Cannabis Practice Group is at the leading edge of these developments. McKöena Cannabis Practice Group works closely with a wide range of industry participants, including licensed producers, retailers, investors, technology and other service providers, to help them succeed in the medical cannabis industry. Our group is made up of experienced professionals with significant in-depth knowledge. We understand the laws, regulations and business landscape of Canada’s medical cannabis industry, and can provide you with valuable legal solutions for financing, accessing public markets, licensing and regulation, employment law and workplace issues, mergers and acquisitions, tax structuring and intellectual property matters, whether you are just entering the market or already established.