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BR Lion Gainsburgh Ltd

Mr. Gainsburgh adds great value to his clients on legal, business and compliance matters. He carries more than two decades of legal, business and investment-related experience, as well as being fully engaged in the cannabis industry. Lion is nationally known and has been published on numerous occasions providing keen insight into the cannabis, fintech and securities industries. Lion can assist clients by providing cannabis business consulting and compliance, negotiate and draft various agreements, address day-to-day legal concerns. He represents various cultivators, edible producers, dispensaries and other ancillary cannabis businesses...

Mr. Gainsburgh previously served as General Counsel for BioTrackTHC™, a cannabis industry seed to sale tracking operation. Lion is also well versed in SEC, CFTC, NFA & FINRA processes and statutes, He focuses on BD and RIA compliance, regulation, as well as, securities agreements and regulatory filings. Lion assists his clients with corporate governance and Board issues. Lion has spent nearly a decade operating his own law practice focusing on securities regulation. His experience on Wall St. has been far-reaching.

He acted as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Steben & Company, Inc, a registered broker-dealer and CPO. He’s also previously served as Director of Compliance and Counsel at John W. Henry & Company, Inc., a commodity trading advisor and CPO, and Director of Compliance at several financial affiliates, including Westport Capital Management Corporation, Global Capital Management Limited and JWH Securities, Inc.

“White Lion” also advises Jamaican cannabis stakeholders and reggae music industry artists. He has previously served as the legal advisor to the LPH Foundation, a Rastafari Community non-profit organization. Currently, he acts as counsel for the Theocracy Reign Order of Nyabinghi His &Her Majesty Repatriation Foundation, Inc., a Harlem NY non-profit Rastafari Community organization
Throughout his career, Lion has served executive roles at various broker-dealers, hedge funds and commodity firms. He previously held Series 3, 7, 24, 63 and 65 industry licenses He holds a Juris Doctorate from Hofstra Law School (1993) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University (1990). He is admitted to practice law in New York (1994).

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