Blank Rome’s Tenth Annual State of the Cannabis Industry Conference is just around the corner. The 2026 conference will take place on Monday, October 26, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport, with live stream available. For ten years now, the conference has brought together operators, investors, advisors, regulators, and counsel from across the cannabis industry to talk about the issues shaping the market. This year’s program comes at a pivotal time. The industry is dealing with ongoing financial strain, a changing federal regulatory picture, and a new round of consolidation.
About the Panel: Distressed M&A: Consolidation, Restructuring, and Strategic Opportunity
Many cannabis operators are struggling with oversupply-driven price compression, high-rate debt and sale-leaseback structures that are now coming due, and the cash tax drag of Section 280E. As a result, distressed transactions have become a central feature of the market. This panel will look at how buyers, sellers, lenders, advisors, and fiduciaries handle distressed cannabis deals. Topics will include how to separate a fixable business from a broken one, how rescheduling to Schedule III is changing deal math, how receivership compares with Article 9 and UCC sale processes, and what distressed companies can do now to maximize value.
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