Duane Morris LLP

Tracy A. Gallegos serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Cannabis industry group. Tracy has a multifaceted corporate and real estate practice that focuses on the cannabis, consumer packaged goods/services, and hospitality industries. Her clients, from startups to established businesses, include retail shopping centers, restaurants, online retailers and both plant-touching and ancillary cannabis companies in both California and Nevada. Tracy's corporate practice focuses heavily on mergers and acquisitions, governance and restructuring, debt financing, commercial contracts, and other general corporate matters. In the cannabis industry, Tracy has served as lead transaction counsel on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, and has been involved in deals with an aggregate value exceeding several billion dollars. She also frequently handles ownership disputes and rollups/securities exchanges for commercial cannabis businesses. Moreover, she serves as regulatory and compliance counsel and advises clients regarding the licensing process and other regulatory issues at both the state and local levels in California and Nevada. Having been involved in the cannabis space since 2010 when only medicinal cannabis use was permitted in California, Tracy's knowledge of and experience with the cannabis space and its rapidly evolving regulations is expansive. Her regulatory knowledge, combined with her corporate and real estate background, make her particularly adept at serving the many needs of both startup and large companies in the cannabis industry.

Tracy also represents both commercial and residential developers, as well as commercial landlords. She handles transactions involving the acquisition and disposition of multimillion-dollar commercial properties and residential subdivisions and has served as lead counsel on transactions with purchase prices in the hundreds of millions of dollars. She also handles real estate financing transactions and has served as lead counsel on deals in excess of a half billion dollars.

Duane Morris LLP - Partner, 2019-present Fox Rothschild LLP - Partner, 2017-2019 - Senior Associate, 2013-2017 Morris Polich & Purdy LLP - Senior Associate, 2010-2013 Excellence Community Management LLC - Corporate Counsel, 2009-2010 Leach Johnson Song & Gruchow - Associate, 2007-2008  Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Law Corporation - Associate, 2007 Santoro, Driggs, Walch, Kearney, Holley & Thompson - Associate, 2004-2007

Cannabis Law Journal - 2016 Editorial Advisory Board Clark County Bar Association American Bar Association - Business Forum - Entertainment Law Forum Nevada State Bar - Entertainment Law Section

Drake University Law School, J.D., 2004