Kelsey Middleton

Ms. Middleton’s recent experience includes :

• Providing advice and counseling related to compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations applicable to cannabis, hemp and cannabinoid businesses to a range of entities, including Bespoke Financial, Dutchie, Hassie Holdings, TRPC, Waitr and a Fortune 500 multinational company.
• Performing regulatory and licensing due diligence in connection with financings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures for a range of entities, including private equity funds.
• Providing advice and counsel concerning the defense and enforcement of intellectual property rights for a variety of software and consumer products companies.
• Representing a large, well known digital assets exchange in defense of litigation asserting civil conspiracy and money laundering.
• Representing BrowserStack in defense of patent litigation.
• Representing Company X in pre-litigation counseling.

Ms. Middleton also maintains an active pro bono practice. Recent experience includes:

• Preparing a clemency petition for an individual sentenced to a decade in prison for a crime involving cannabis through the Cannabis Justice Initiative.
• Interviewing and preparing citizenship applications through Project Citizenship.
• Corresponding with incarcerated people who identify as transgender regarding legal advocacy and issues impacting the incarcerated transgender community through the Transgender Law Center Prison Mail Response Program.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Ms. Middleton was a regulatory specialist and associate attorney at Vicente Sederberg LLP. During law school, Ms. Middleton completed internships at Emerge Law Group and the Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation.