Clients rely on Richard Lyons for his deep transactional experience in the real estate, corporate, cannabis, life sciences, and healthcare sectors. These transactions include real estate leasing, acquisitions and dispositions, stock/asset purchase agreements, service agreements, licensing agreements, and corporate and business formation matters. Rich also serves as outside general counsel for a number of clients, advising them on a wide range of issues involving corporate governance and best practices, commercial agreements, and regulatory requirements, including in the cannabis industry.
Rich’s cannabis industry clients appreciate his guidance on matters concerning licensing, regulations, financing, real estate, employment agreements, and other general business matters. With the industry expansion outpacing clear guidance on agreements and regulations, Rich has helped cannabis industry clients streamline service, supply, and distribution agreements to better fit their needs.
In the healthcare and life sciences sector, he works with clients in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and clinical trial sectors addressing their real estate and commercial contracting needs. This includes advising a large medical device company on its national leased and owned real estate portfolio and drafting and negotiating consulting agreements, clinical and nonclinical research agreements, and business formation and structuring agreements.
Beyond his legal career, Rich serves as a councilman in the borough of Upper Saddle River, NJ and serves on the borough’s historical society and water committees. He also coaches tee ball within the community and participates in various community charitable events.
