David Pejovic, Esq.

David Pejovic is a New York cannabis lawyer who helps advise clients in the adult-use cannabis market on a wide variety of business facing issues including: regulatory compliance, equity fundraising, commercial real estate, and corporate governance. David entered the adult-use cannabis industry as a small business owner in the cannabis ecosystem and deeply understands the issues that cannabis operators face on a day-to-day basis. His approach provides holistic advisory to best counsel businesses through the different challenges that they face on a daily basis.

David founded and chairs the Cannabis Association of New York’s (CANY) Municipal Affairs Committee, helping provide equitable cannabis zoning policy support at the state level and sits as co-founder of CANY’s Retail Committee. His work at CANY helps drive operator focused policy and education for the industry from a land use, operative, and financial products perspective.

David’s legal career started with tokenized securities & commodities work in the blockchain legal space, clerking full-to-part time through law school. He is admitted to practice in New York and is a graduate of the Villanova Law class of 2021.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law | Villanova University — Charles Widger School of Law

B.A., Political Science and Philosophy | Baruch College