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Corporate Contracts
We have extensive experience with even the most complex contracts that business use every day. Form Formation of corporate organizations, to tax and litigation avoidance tactics .
Cannabis Real Estate
Real estate legal issues are almost always big deals that require attention to details and deadlines – put our attorneys to work for you. We’ve help cannabis companies with real estate, and secured lenders.
Corporate Litigation
Banking, Cannabis, Regulatory and straight up commercial transactions that have gone bust – our lawyers can handle the most sophisticated litigation that your business could face.
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Collateral Base offers exceptional legal & business consulting services to the emerging agricultural industry to entrepreneurs that rely on the best quality information to gain competitive advantage in court or the board room.
Organizations & Publications
Our founding attorney, Tom Howard, has been recognized by both Leading Lawyers & Super Lawyers, quoted in the Wall Street Journal & Marijuana Business Magazine. We support the NORML Legal Committee & the NCIA.
Corporate Attorneys & Litigators
Practicing all over Illinois and serving businesses from coast-to-coast.
Recognized by Super Lawyers & experienced in :
- cannabis licenses
- real estate contract litigation
- health care contracts
- loan workouts
- agri-business
Our Business Law & Consulting Practice
Our Illinois & Massachusetts Business Lawyers offer effective and value priced legal solutions for cannabis companies, community banks, businesses and people with contract or real estate issues in all over Illinois and nation-wide.
Collateral Base’s mission is to provide the best legal and business advisory services to the cannabis industry so that our clients win – whether in court, on an application, or the marketplace.
Our business lawyers are business owners themselves and understand the ever evolving competitive landscape companies face in the 21st century, including the data privacy and cybersecurity issues that have arisen since the dawn of the internet age.
Our lead attorney, Thomas Howard, owns his own digital company and uses his business law and litigation skills to help defend it from risks. Our Boston Attorney David Leavitt has extensive experience in regulatory and cannabis industry matters.
Businesses face regulatory risk, employee issues, contract liabilities, and even torts if they deal with hazardous industries.
Your business may need contract help, or litigation management, or any number of issues that our attorneys with their home office in Peoria, Illinois have experience in – so call us today at (309) 306-1095.
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