As head of Husch Blackwell’s Food Systems industry unit, Steve leads more than 70 professionals from numerous practice areas. He excels in bringing innovative, cost-effective answers to the various challenges that his clients face, and is especially passionate about working with new industries or industry disruptors.

Steve’s gift for developing creative solutions to new problems makes him a perfect fit for fresh and rapidly growing industries. Since 2009, his major practice focus has been on the burgeoning cannabis industry, where he guides clients through the tangle of shifting regulations governing the sale and use of cannabis in both the marijuana and industrial hemp sectors across the nation.

Steve has earned multiple national rankings in this practice area, working closely with the top MSOs in North America, as well as entrepreneurs, on all matters of marijuana and industrial hemp regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring, debt and equity financing, governance, and securities compliance. The Cannabis team he co-leads is one of the country’s largest and most experienced, having grown with our clients to provide full-service representation to many of the largest cannabis operators in the U.S. and Canada.