What to Expect in Cannabis Real Estate Deals

[ad_1] Cannabis real estate transactions can be notoriously complicated – much more so than your average real estate deal. On January 9, 2024, I’ll be speaking on a panel called “Navigating Real Estate Issues Impacting the Cannabis Industry” for the Los Angeles County Bar Association, where my co-panelists and I plan on touching on many of the most precarious issues in these sorts of transactions. Today, I want to preview some of the key issues…

"What to Expect in Cannabis Real Estate Deals"

‘GAFAM’ tech giants, ByteDance and Samsung expect to face EU’s rebooted antitrust regime

[ad_1] Seven tech giants have informed the European Union that its rebooted antitrust regime — the Digital Markets Act (DMA) — will apply to them. The initial seven, the majority of whom are US-based giants, are: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance (TikTok), Meta (Facebook), Microsoft and Samsung. The DMA takes an ex ante approach to antitrust enforcement on major platforms that act as intermediaries between other digital businesses and consumers. It does this by laying…

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Trump in court: What to expect when he’s arrested

[ad_1] Former U.S. President Donald Trump is set to appear in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush-money investigation, the first president ever to be charged with a crime. Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing and has repeatedly assailed the investigation, has called the indictment “political persecution” and predicted it would damage Democrats in 2024. Trump’s lawyers have said the former president “did not commit any crime. We…

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What to expect from Russia’s much-awaited offensive in Ukraine

[ad_1] Russian citizens recruited as part of partial mobilization attend combat training in the training spots of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Donetsk, Ukraine on October 05, 2022. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images A renewed Russian offensive in the east of Ukraine is underway. It began last week with a renewed push by Moscow’s forces on the outskirts of Bakhmut in Donbas, and a wave of…

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‘I don’t expect anything’ from Turkish justice

[ad_1] Days before Osman Kavala’s appearance in a Turkish court on Friday, his wife, Ayse Bugra, gave an exclusive interview to FRANCE 24. She spoke about the accusations faced by the so-called “red billionaire”, a prominent member of Turkish civil society who has been behind bars without a sentence since October 2017. He risks life in prison if he is found guilty of “attempting to overthrow the government”.  Osman Kavala, a philanthropist and entrepreneur nicknamed the…

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