Bio
Dan Garfield brings almost 30 years of experience practicing in cannabis, bankruptcy, and business transactions.
Dan is a leading cannabis industry attorney, with experience in all issues concerning cannabis and hemp. He represents private and public companies, investors (including private equity funds and family offices), landlords, lenders, manufacturers, hemp farmers, CBD manufacturers, and a wide range of ancillary businesses. He also provides legal opinions and regulatory advice to industry participants.
His bankruptcy, restructuring, and distressed asset practice includes representation of clients in bankruptcy, receivership, and all matter of distressed situations, including Chapter 11 debtors, creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured lenders, shareholders, trustees, receivers, landlords, and purchasers of distressed assets. He also litigates adversary proceedings in bankruptcy court, including fraudulent transfers and preferences. He assists clients in creditors’ rights matters in and out of court, including debt restructurings, liquidations, workouts, foreclosures, and collecting judgments. He also represents contractors and subcontractors in enforcing mechanics’ liens.
Dan’s transactional experience in a range of industries includes entity formation and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, private placements, licensing, contract negotiation and drafting, corporate governance, and joint ventures, and acts as outside general counsel. Dan also provides advice to lenders and borrowers in structured finance loans and has authored for borrowers or reviewed for secured lenders over 75 nonconsolidation opinions.