Jeremy Shaw

Partner

Boston

j.shaw@vicentellp.com

617-934-2121

800 Boylston St.
26th Floor
Boston, MA 02199

Commercial Transactions
Corporate & Business
Insolvency & State Receivership
International Transactions
Licensing
Real Estate
Regulatory Compliance
Technology

Massachusetts

J.D., Northeastern University School of Law
B.A., Brandeis University

Overview

Jeremy Shaw co-chairs Vicente LLP’s corporate group, where he advises clients in a full range of corporate and transactional matters through the business life cycle, including corporate structuring and governance, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and commercial arrangements. Jeremy has deep experience guiding clients in complex corporate transactions within highly regulated markets.

Jeremy advises a range of clients, from small, privately-held businesses to publicly traded MSOs, as well as individual investors and law firms in connection with a variety of cannabis-related investment transactions, giving Jeremy the experience necessary to meet each client’s individual needs and transactional goals.

In 2024, Jeremy was honored as a "New Leader in Law" in the Law360 New England Legal Awards. He has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America® for Corporate Governance and Compliance Law and Corporate Law (2024-2025). Additionally, he has been featured in Boston magazine's "Boston's Top Lawyers" list from 2021 to 2024 and was selected for Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers' "Massachusetts Rising Stars – Cannabis Law".

In law school, Jeremy served as co-chair of Northeastern University School of Law’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and interned with Vicente LLP’s Massachusetts and Denver offices, as well as with Federal District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton of the Massachusetts Federal District Court. Jeremy is a former elected Town Meeting Member of Brookline, MA.

Experience

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Acted as outside general counsel and regulatory counsel for a privately-held MSO in one of the largest and first cannabis ESOP transactions

  • Acted as corporate counsel to Village Farms International, Inc. in its acquisition of Balanced Health Botanicals, LLC, a private CBD-product wholesaler and online retailer, for consideration of $75 million in cash and stock

  • Acted as lead corporate and regulatory counsel to a private cannabis cultivator and manufacturer in connection with the execution of definitive agreements for the sale of that company and its associated real estate holding company to a publicly-traded MSO for consideration of $55 million in cash and stock

  • Acted as corporate counsel to a leading MSO in its acquisition of a licensed cannabis retailer for consideration of $14 million in cash and stock 

  • Represented multiple leading MSOs as regulatory counsel in their respective acquisitions of licensed cannabis businesses in the northeast

  • Acted as corporate and regulatory counsel to a multi-state cannabis testing laboratory operator in its acquisition of a cannabis testing laboratory business

Financing

  • Acted as corporate counsel to a cannabis retailer in its $15 million Series A financing, which included a lead investment by a growth equity fund

  • Acted as corporate counsel to a regional MSO in connection with a convertible note financing

  • Represented several cannabis companies in connection with early-stage equity and convertible note financings

  • Acted as corporate and regulatory counsel to a cannabis operator in connection with a $6 million secured debt financing

  • Acted as corporate and regulatory counsel to a cannabis operator in connection with a $10 million secured credit facility

  • Represented multiple investors in connection with regulatory and corporate due diligence in connection with a variety of cannabis investment transactions

General Corporate Matters

  • Represented numerous clients in connection with the formation and structuring of cannabis businesses and cannabis joint ventures

  • Represented numerous clients in corporate reorganizations related to conversion from non-profit to for-profit entities in connection with changing regulatory schemes

  • Acted as corporate and regulatory counsel to a regional MSO in connection with its restructuring and expansion

Litigation

  • Assisted in the representation of the plaintiff in Barbuto v. Advantage Sales Marketing, LLC, which resulted in the groundbreaking ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court establishing the availability of certain state disability law protections for medical cannabis patients. 

Leadership & Community Involvement

  • Elected Town Meeting Member, Brookline, Massachusetts Precinct 4, 2015-2019

  • Co-Chair of Northeastern University School of Law’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, 2015-2016

Recognition

Publications

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Events