Donnie Emmi

Utilizing his Wall Street investment banking background and more than 17 years of legal experience, Donnie Emmi advises major cannabis brands, celebrity brands, and publicly traded companies. Emmi currently serves as a board member for large cannabis businesses, financial institutions, and as a strategic advisor to many companies - extending well beyond the provision of traditional legal services. Since 2015, Emmi has represented the nation’s largest marijuana banking financial institution, both as a legal and strategic business advisor, and was fortunate to be asked to author the legal chapter in the foremost authority on marijuana banking, Navigating Safe Harbor: Cannabis Banking in a time of Uncertainty. In recent years, Emmi has assisted in building the nation’s first cannabis transaction escrow company and has participated in multiple capital raise projects. He has been a strategic and legal advisor on more than $100 Million in cannabis transactions and mergers and acquisition activity, both domestic and internationally. Emmi has successfully litigated more than 100 cases throughout the United States and abroad, both within and without the cannabis industry, particularly focused on securities litigation, multi-district business and corporate disputes, intellectual property disputes, and patent infringement litigation.