Bankruptcy experts and attorneys for cannabis companies will be closely watching next Tuesday's Chapter 15 recognition hearing for The Cannabist Co. Holdings, which if approved could provide a novel path for cannabis-related companies to access U.S. bankruptcy court after historically being blocked by marijuana's status as a federally controlled substance.
Wiser Solutions Inc., a software company that collects data from retailers, has tapped lawyers from the firms Hogan Lovells and Thompson Coburn LLP to help it through the Chapter 11 case it began with about $563 million in debt and plans to sell its business to its main lender.
Entities representing groups of opioid claimants in the Chapter 11 case of Purdue Pharma have named their representatives on an oversight board created to implement a public repository of documents related to the national opioid epidemic and Purdue's role in the crisis.