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Rebecca Stamey-White

Partner, Hinman & Carmichael LLP

Rebecca Stamey-White is a legal advocate, advisor and strategist focusing her practice on the laws related to the sale, distribution and marketing of alcoholic beverages and cannabis. She is a partner with Hinman & Carmichael LLP, a nationally-recognized boutique law firm representing the alcoholic beverage, hospitality and cannabis industries and their service providers.

Rebecca helps her clients secure and maintain the alcohol and cannabis licenses that permit them to operate in a regulated market, by providing licensing, production, distribution, sales and marketing counsel and defending clients before regulatory bodies when their licenses are at risk. She is the practice leader for the firm’s marketing & events, third party provider & technology and cannabis practices. She has a particular interest and experience structuring compliant sponsorships and events, social media marketing campaigns and promotions, technology services & delivery platforms and complex route-to-market licensing strategies. Prior to Hinman & Carmichael, Rebecca was an associate in the San Francisco litigation group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she worked on litigation involving constitutional challenges to state alcohol direct shipping restrictions and provided regulatory advice to California wine industry businesses.

Rebecca received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History & International Studies from Northwestern University and her juris doctor from Northwestern University School of Law. Rebecca is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, law schools and continuing legal education programs on the latest legal issues in the alcoholic beverage and cannabis industries. She is an active member of many of the alcohol beverage industry organizations, including the Wine Institute, the Rhone Rangers, the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers, the California Music & Culture Association, the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators and the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA).

In the cannabis space, Rebecca is an active member the National Cannabis Bar Association, the California Cannabis Industry Association and the Sonoma County Growers Alliance. During ski season, she volunteers as a national ski patroller at Northstar California Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe. Rebecca Stamey-White Partner phone: 415-362-1215, Ext. 106 fax: 415-362-1494 email: rebecca@beveragelaw.com