Lauren Estevez

Lauren is a Los Angeles-based attorney advising licensed cannabis industry operators, brands and ancillary businesses on strategy, investment sourcing, and regulatory compliance. Lauren has been practicing in the cannabis space since shortly after Proposition 64 was passed in California, and has completed over 100 cannabis projects with U.S. and international clients. In addition to cannabis, Lauren also advises clients on CBD and The Farm Bill. Her work has been featured on CNBC, Cheddar, and in Law360 and she is a regular contributor to cannabis industry conferences.

Prior to her career in cannabis, Lauren graduated from Harvard Law School and worked at an AmLaw100 global law firm in London & New York in the Capital Markets and Banking groups, and at a start up, where she managed a multi-million dollar book of business and her clients included emerging and Fortune 500 life sciences and technology companies.

Lauren has been advising brands and operators in the world’s largest cannabis market, California, since 2017. In addition to her experience in the California cannabis market, she brings a global perspective having worked abroad and with publicly-traded life sciences companies earlier in her career. Lauren’s clients appreciate her precise, effective, and results-oriented approach to legal advising.

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