Paula Winner Barnett is a corporate attorney, who worked at large law firms and in-house as general counsel, with a broad breadth of experience in all aspects of law, issues and transactions affecting large and small, private and public, companies. Paula has extensive experience with regulatory compliance, corporate governance, corporate finance, commercial transactions, day-to-day operations and human resources, across many different industries, including financial services, biomedical, technology, manufacturing, software, internet, digital, and consumer products.

Paula has the experience with regulations and regulators to help you navigate the complex and evolving regulations touching the cannabis industry. While the regulations on cannabis will likely be onerous, Paula believes you can use them to your benefit, to structure your business to be as profitable as possible. The only way to successfully navigate the impending regulations is to be organized, analyze closely all aspects of your business, be nimble and agile, have the foresight, that comes with experience and intuition, to adjust as the regulations evolve. It is almost certain that there will be lots of bumps and starts as California and other states work out their regulatory schemes. Having a legal advisor who has successfully helped navigate companies through uncharted territories and is comfortable working in uncharted territory is essential. Paula will help you take advantage of what could otherwise be a costly, treacherous downside of doing business and make it an opportunity to structure your business in a way to foster growth, profitability and expansion.

Paula is a practical, business savvy lawyer and a creative problem solver. She offers business solutions from a legal perspective.

Columbia University
B.A., Economics 1987
magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa