Zuber Lawler

Tom Zuber is a founder and the Managing Partner of Zuber Lawler.  Tom is the relationship partner for some 10 Fortune 500 Company clients of the firm, as well as funds and government entities.  He has also represented leading cannabis companies for 15 years.  Zuber Lawler as a firm manages the highest-stakes matters of a large percentage of the biggest brands in global cannabis.  Tom is also a founder of the international cannabis consulting company Global Go.  He earned a J.D. degree Columbia Law School, a master’s in public policy degree from Harvard University, and a biomedical engineering degree from Rutgers University, where he graduated with highest honors.

Tomas Ortiz focuses on real estate transactions and disputes, and bankruptcy and restructuring matters. He also taps his broad experience set and good managerial judgement to serves as effective outside general counsel for many of his clients. He often works in highly regulated industries, including as to energy, foods, cannabis, hemp, and psychedelics.

Mr. Ortiz’s transactional and outside general counsel experience includes real estate acquisitions and loans; distribution agreements; licensing agreements; and corporate structuring, often in heavily regulated industries.

Mr. Ortiz dispute experience includes real estate and title disputes, quiet title disputes, adverse possession, boundary and easement disputes, trespass, entitlement disputes, escrow disputes, and eminent domain actions. He also has experience with bankruptcy litigation, bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, bankruptcy asset sales, domestic and international restructuring, and insolvency.  Mr. Ortiz is a seasoned trial lawyer with 20 years of litigation experience, taking disputes from demand to trial and through appeal.

He has worked with banks and non-institutional lenders, cultivators, manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, commercial and residential real estate investors, commercial landlords and tenants, SPEs, nonprofits, attorneys, and accountants. In the bankruptcy and restructuring context, he’s represented a wide range of stakeholders, including creditors, debtors, trustees, creditors’ committees, franchisors, real estate enterprises, and corporate/institutional interests.

Mr. Ortiz writes and lectures on cannabis, real estate, bankruptcy, and insolvency.

Jonathan Purow is Counsel in the New York office of the law firm Zuber Lawler, where his practice focuses on cannabis regulatory and transactional matters, as well as general intellectual property litigation and transactions. Jon is also the weekly Monday morning industry news podcast “Cannabis Last Week” from Global Cannabis Times, aka “News & Analysis Extract from 420+ Sources”.

Jon is a graduate of Brown University and the Cardozo School of Law.