Jason Klimek is a special counsel in Manatt’s cross-platform Cannabis and CBD practice. He leverages his extensive corporate and tax experience to guide clients across a variety of regulatory, licensing and structuring-related matters.
With a deep background in cannabis and policy throughout New York and the Northeast and experience as a successful corporate and tax attorney, Jason is uniquely positioned to counsel clients at the intersection of corporate, tax law and regulatory frameworks. For the better part of the last decade, he has led a cannabis practice representing conditional adult-use retail dispensary licensees, cultivators, processors, cannabis labs and several multi-state operators. Jason has worked with lawmakers and regulators to develop cannabis law, advised clients on aspects of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act and structured relationships to comply with cannabis regulations in mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property.
Jason currently serves as Tax Committee Chair and Executive Committee Member of the New York State Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Section and has served as Policy Committee Chair for the Cannabis Association of New York.