Other Regulated Products (Food & Beverage, Dietary Supplements, Cosmetics, Cannabis)

Arnold & Porter’s Consumer Products team integrates multiple practice areas, jurisdictions, and forums to provide full-service, strategic counsel to some of the world’s biggest and best-known brands. Our edge comes from deep experience in product development, maintaining ideal regulatory classification, advertising and marketing risk mitigation, governmental enforcement defense, compliance, consumer-and competitor-based challenges, M&A, supply chain concerns, and complex scientific issues. For consumer product and services companies, brand value is paramount. Clients rely on our multidisciplinary team to protect their brands against threats that continually evolve in the marketplace. 

Our Cannabis practice advises a diverse portfolio of clients in the rapidly growing cannabis industry, including pharmaceutical and medical device companies, consumer products companies, and other entities in the sector, as well as funds, investors, financial institutions, and other stakeholders. We work with clients to address legality issues within the industry, which vary by country. In addition to advising companies and individuals on the lawfulness of engaging in, transacting with, or investing in cannabis-related businesses, we help navigate the complex regulatory regime applicable to CBD in consumer products and the medicinal, therapeutic, and recreational use of cannabis. We also assist on licensing and supply agreements, M&A and joint ventures, cannabis due diligence, and various types of financing.