Gary Stuart Kaminsky

Gary S. Kaminsky, Esq.
Senior Counsel
Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld, LLC

Mr. Kaminsky has over thirty-five years of experience in legal regulatory compliance, the past six in the cannabis industry. Mr. Kaminsky’s expertise is in developing and implementing regulatory enterprise risk management infrastructure for companies investing and operating in the cannabis industry as well as for asset management companies, broker-dealers and other financial institutions.

Mr. Kaminsky’s distinguished career began as a senior attorney with the Enforcement Division of the U.S. SEC in Washington. He was also co-founder, COO, CCO and General Counsel for two alternative investment fund companies and CCO and Counsel for Susquehanna Investment Group, a leading proprietary trading firm, preceded by a position as a securities and regulatory attorney with Dechert, LLP. Most recently, Mr. Kaminsky has advised US multi-state operators and other companies across the supply chain in the cannabis industry. Indeed, he is frequently turned to as an informational resource by state and federal regulators and law enforcement

Mr. Kaminsky is frequent author and panelist for cannabis industry issues and currently Chief Regulatory Advisor for the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp chairing its CBD Task Force and a founding member of its Cannabis Beverage and Capital Markets councils.

He received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his Juris Doctor from the State University of New York at Buffalo.