Max M. Borg

Max M. Borg
Partner
Cannabis
Corporate

Biography

Max Borg has over a decade of experience as a corporate lawyer and adviser, focusing his practice on corporate and commercial transactions, restructuring, and outside general counsel services. Max regularly advises business operators and founders, private equity firms, license holders, brands, technology and other ancillary businesses, investors, and funds operating in the emerging legal cannabis industry, as well as other regulated industries.

His corporate practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”), securities offerings, debt financings, restructurings (including state court receiverships and bankruptcies), securities laws compliance, corporate governance, and related commercial transactions. Max also serves as outside general counsel to various licensed cannabis dispensaries, cultivators, and manufacturers, helping them navigate an increasingly complex business and regulatory environment through all stages of the business cycle.

Max combines his legal and business acumen to serve as a trusted dealmaker, helping his clients grow (and eventually sell) their businesses while mitigating risks along the way. Max also has deep experience working on special situations and insolvency matters—having worked on some of the largest Chapter 11 cases, to state court receiverships of various cannabis businesses throughout the country. In this context, Max has significant experience advising buyers and sellers in distressed M&A transactions—both in and out of court. His ability to distill complex information regarding how legal issues manifest into business issues creates significant value for his clients, who feel well-educated and empowered to make critical decisions with Max’s counsel.

Max goes beyond his role as an attorney to help his clients build relationships to generate growth for their businesses. With deep connections throughout the cannabis industry on a national basis, he enjoys introducing his clients to potential capital sources, operating partners, skilled employees, and executives, customers, and suppliers.

Max previously practiced law as a partner in the corporate and cannabis groups at a leading law firm based in Boston. Before that, Max practiced law at a leading boutique, cannabis-focused law firm in New York. Max began his career as an associate in the corporate department of a premier New York law firm, where he focused on M&A, bankruptcy and restructuring, workouts, public and private securities offerings, debt financings, corporate governance, and general corporate matters.

Max received Brooklyn Law School’s graduation award for exceptional achievement in Commercial Law and Bankruptcy.

Outside the Firm

Max enjoys spending time with his family, friends, and dog; playing basketball and golf; cooking; and mindfulness.

Max is actively involved as a Big Brother volunteer mentor with Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Boston.

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Recognitions

  • 2024–2025, Massachusetts “Rising Star” in Cannabis Law, listed by Super Lawyers
  • 2023, Massachusetts “Rising Star” in Securities & Corporate Finance, listed by Super Lawyers
  • 2021, New York Metro “Rising Star,” listed by Super Lawyers

Credentials

Admissions

  • Massachusetts
  • New York

Education

  • George Washington University, BA
  • Brooklyn Law School, JD, magna cum laude

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