Andrew Cooper – Falcon Rappaport & Berkman
Partner
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 including assisting inventors and growing companies in formulating business and “go to market” strategies, as well as in assisting life science companies on regulatory strategies for their products and services, to representing 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 operates 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 a former Executive Board Member of The JUSTÜS Foundation, an organization dedicated to ensuring and facilitating the entry of legacy operators to the legal cannabis market. As such, 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).
Publications
- A Lawyer’s View on the Cannabis Industry
- Karma Koala Podcast 171: Andrew Cooper, Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP. Chevron, The Cannabis Lawyers’ Dirty Little Secret
- The U.S. Hemp Industry: Loopholes, implications, and looming change
- NYC Cannabis Landlord Accountability Law Has Limitations
- Dormant Commerce Clause Limits New York’s Cannabis Licensing – A New Second Circuit Decision
- Will Trump Reschedule Cannabis?
- Judge Strikes Down Long Island Dispensary Zoning Restrictions – More to Come?
- Too Close for Comfort: OCM’s School-Distance Mistake Puts 100+ Dispensaries at Risk
- Biden Commutes Sentences of Close to 2,500 People Convicted of Nonviolent Drug ChargesHochul Signs Law to Revive Cannabis Farmers’ Markets (Growers’ Showcases) via New Event Permit
- Twenty-Three FRB Attorneys Selected to 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars List
- New York City Council Hearing Addresses Operation Padlock and New Regulations Targeting Unlicensed Cannabis Retailers
- Cannabis Rescheduling – A Look Towards the Future of the Industry
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Locations
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(516) 599-0888
Address & Contacts
Address
265 Sunrise Highway Rockville Centre, NY
GPS
40.6575757, -73.6445268
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