Frank A. Segall

Background

About Frank A. Segall

Frank leads Burns & Levinson as part of its Executive Committee and as Chair of the firm’s Business & Finance groups as well as the Cannabis Business & Law Advisory group. Frank has helped build the firm’s practice and focus on the needs of growing companies. In 2022, he was named "Cannabis MVP of the Year" by Law360 and a "Go To Business Transaction Lawyer" by Mass Lawyers Weekly. Highly networked and capitalizing on his business acumen along with lawyering skills, Frank helps clients create, develop, and build synergies, negotiate highly complex and sophisticated transactions, secure billions of dollars of financing, broker strategic partnerships and expand revenues for his clients. With a strong background in finance and business operations, Frank and his team regularly negotiate business deals including mergers, acquisitions, sales, syndications, loans, restructuring and equity investments. Frank works as outside general counsel to businesses throughout the world and has deep expertise in a broad base of industries including manufacturers, industrials, technology, transportation, retail and services industries, as well as expertise in commercial lending and structured finance. Frank also has built a national corporate cannabis practice providing counsel to clients in the cannabis industry including investors, lenders, venture capital funds, operators of cultivation and dispensary facilities, and businesses providing ancillary products and services to the industry throughout the country. Frank was one of the first leading corporate lawyers to enter the space in 2010 and was named an inaugural Cannabis Trailblazer by the National Law Journal. Frank is retained as general corporate counsel for capital raises, mergers and acquisitions, structuring investments, drafting operative documents, and general business advice in this rapidly growing industry. Mergers | Acquisitions | Sales | Syndications | Loans | Restructuring | Equity investments | Cannabis Law Included in "Top 200 Cannabis Lawyers" Directory (2023) Named a "Cannabis MVP of the Year" by Law360 (2022) Named a "Go To Business Transaction Lawyer" by Mass Lawyers Weekly (2022) Modell Award, Crohn's & Colitis Foundation (2021) Named a "New England Trailblazer" by Am Law (2019) Named a "Cannabis Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal (2018) Massachusetts Super Lawyers