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Dave Kopilak

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Dave Kopilak focuses his practice on business and corporate law. He has extensive experience assisting clients with business structuring, entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities, equity incentive plans, and all types of commercial contracts.

Dave was the primary drafter of Oregon Ballot Measure 91 (2014) and understands the business, corporate, and securities law challenges that cannabis businesses face. Additionally, Dave was the primary drafter of Oregon Ballot Measure 109 (2020), also has known as the Oregon Psilocybin Services Act, which was approved by Oregon voters on November 3, 2020. Dave has been following the meetings of the Psilocybin Advisory Board and its various subcommittees and has a unique insight into the numerous challenges that Oregon-licensed psilocybin businesses will face as the industry prepares to launch in 2023.

Prior to co-founding Emerge Law Group, Dave was a shareholder at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C., Oregon’s second largest law firm. He also worked on-site at Intel Corporation where he drafted and negotiated numerous contracts and created several new legal document templates for complex business scenarios. For eight years, Dave was an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, where he taught a mergers and acquisitions lab class. Dave attended University of Oregon School of Law where he earned Order of the Coif honors, and was the Executive Editor of the Oregon Law Review.

Outside the practice of law, Dave has engaged in a number of entrepreneurial ventures. He is the president and co-founder of ClayTablet, a company that provides legal document templates to Oregon and Washington attorneys. He also produced a documentary movie that won awards at several film festivals, and for several years designed and published a calendar that was carried in regional bookstores.