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Federal DEA registration applications and compliance, license enforcement defense, and the transactions in between. You talk directly to Ryan, not an intake desk.
Ryan Kocot
Attorney · Licensed in CA, NY & MA
On a deadline
Enforcement document on your desk?
Embargo notices, emergency decisions and orders, notices to comply. Each one starts a response deadline. Identify the document, calendar the real clock, and call before you respond.
Planning ahead
Getting DEA-ready?
Registration under the new federal pathway, the follow-up questionnaire, and the compliance program behind both: records, security, reporting, and mock inspections before anyone knocks.
Licensed CA · NY · MA
Federal DEA registration and compliance
Author of The Federal File
Services
Compliance, transactions, and enforcement defense covered
Registration, compliance, contracts, and defense, handled by the same attorney instead of four different firms.
DEA registrationFederal registration under 21 CFR § 1301.13(k) for state-licensed medical operators, plus the compliance program that keeps it.Learn more →
Compliance & regulatoryPrograms built from the enforcement side backward: audits, SOPs your staff can answer for, mock inspections.Learn more →
Contracts & transactionsSupply, distribution, licensing, and M&A paper that survives a dispute and a regulator reading it.Learn more →
Permitting & licensingState and local licensing in California, New York, and Massachusetts, from application to renewal.Learn more →
Corporate governanceEntity structures and intercompany agreements that hold up when someone tests them.Learn more →
Criminal defenseFor when the matter stops being administrative. Defense counsel in all three states.Learn more →
Three states, one federal layer
Licensing, compliance, and transactions in all 3 states, plus the federal layer over every one of them.
CaliforniaDCC compliance, enforcement defense, transactions, and a Sacramento presence.California →
New YorkOCM licensing, compliance, and transactions for the New York market.New York →
MassachusettsCCC licensing, compliance, and transaction counsel.Massachusetts →
The Federal File
Federal cannabis law, explained weekly
A free weekly newsletter on federal cannabis law for state-licensed operators and their advisers. DEA registration, rescheduling, and what each development actually means for your operation. No gate, no spam.
One attorney for the whole file.
Registration, compliance, transactions, and enforcement defense. Bring the matter to one firm instead of getting bounced between four.
Ryan Kocot · Attorney · CA, NY & MA · You talk directly to Ryan, not an intake desk.
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