Andrew Cooper – Falcon Rappaport & Berkman
Partner
Andrew is Counsel at Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLC where he Chairs the Firm’s Cannabis & Psychedelics Practice Group.
After spending most of his over 30 years of practice as a trial and transactional attorney, handling primarily intellectual property, commercial litigation, and healthcare matters, and as General Counsel representing companies in markets such as salty snacks (as General Counsel for Robert’s American Gourmet, the manufacturer and distributor of the iconic “Pirate’s Booty”) and beer, wine and liquor (representing BH Group, the manufacturer and distributor of “Notorious Pink”), Andrew pivoted to cannabis.
Since that time, Andrew has used the skills he’s honed as an IP and Healthcare lawyer to represent clients in and around the emerging cannabis industry. Andrew is considered a leading expert on cannabis & psychedelics, and represents businesses and individuals at every level of the cannabis supply chain. Clients include state-licensed adult-use marijuana and hemp cultivators, processors, delivery companies, distributors, testing laboratories and dispensaries, whether vertically integrated or operating as standalone businesses, as well as investors in those businesses. He also represents a full range of vendors and ancillary players that supply their products and services to the cannabis industry, from raw materials, technology, advertising and marketing, consumption products, beverage, and security companies.
Andrew is a founding member of Common Culture, a company that operationalizes and provides operational support to adult-use retail dispensaries across New York State and beyond. Andrew has utilized his expertise and vision to build a program which provides much needed executive and high-level fractional services to early-stage and growth-focused dispensaries.
Andrew is also committed to help build a truly equitable cannabis model in the Tri-State area. As an Executive Board Member of The JUSTÜS Foundation, a § 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to ensuring and facilitating the entry of legacy operators to the legal cannabis market, Andrew has assisted social equity and justice-involved applicants pro bono in structuring their businesses and navigating through the licensure process.
Andrew is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University where he currently teaches a course entitled “The Law & Business of Marijuana”.
Andrew also has been recognized as a Super Lawyer (2013 – 2025) (Cannabis).
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265 Sunrise Highway Rockville Centre, NY
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