Alaf Equity PLLC · Attorney at Law · New York

You build the business. I’ll handle the State.

Cannabis licensing, trademarks, contracts, and the paperwork in between — explained in plain English and priced up front, by an attorney who started in legal aid, not a corner office.

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Approachable. Transparent. Dedicated.

Retail Dispensary
Microbusiness
Cultivator
Processor
Delivery
Distributor
Trademarks
Operating Agreements
501(c)(3) Formation

Practice areas

What I can take off your plate.

Every matter gets a clear scope and a flat fee before you commit. Here’s what goes in the folder.

File: Cannabis

From legacy to licensed.

Cannabis consulting & licensing

New York’s cannabis program was designed to open doors for the people prohibition hit hardest. The application process wasn’t. I help you put together every piece the Office of Cannabis Management wants to see — and tell you honestly what your timeline and odds look like.

Cultivator
Processor
Retail Dispensary
Microbusiness
Delivery
+ more

License applications, every type
Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Business plans
Compliance audits
Criminal background check guidance
Safety & security plans

File: Trademark

Your name is the business. Own it.

Trademark & IP

Knockout searches & clearance reports
USPTO applications — word marks & design marks
Renewals & maintenance filings
New York State trademark filings

File: Business

The documents that save you later.

Business legal services

Incorporation & LLC formation
Operating agreements & by-laws
Contracts & transaction agreements
Plain-English review of what you’re signing

File: Nonprofit

Built to serve, set up to last.

Nonprofit formation

501(c)(3) — Form 1023 applications
By-laws & governance documents

File: Family

Life has paperwork too.

Family law

Petition drafting
Uncontested divorce

How it works

Same three steps, every client.

Step
Tell me what you’re building

A free consultation, in normal words. Bring every question you have — you won’t be billed for asking them.
Step
Get a plan and a price

You’ll know the scope and the flat fee before you commit to anything. No surprise invoices, ever.
Step
I handle the State

Filings, applications, follow-ups — done. You get updates you can actually read.

* No question is too basic. Most of my clients have never hired a lawyer before — that’s the point.

Prohibition is over. ✶ Prohibition is over. ✶ Prohibition is over. ✶ Prohibition is over. ✶ Prohibition is over. ✶ Prohibition is over. ✶

Own a piece of what comes next. ✶ Own a piece of what comes next. ✶ Own a piece of what comes next. ✶ Own a piece of what comes next. ✶ Own a piece of what comes next. ✶ Own a piece of what comes next. ✶

Your attorney

Salar Rivani, Esq.

Most cannabis lawyers came from corporate firms and found the industry. Salar came from the other direction — years in legal aid and domestic violence litigation, standing next to New Yorkers the system overlooked. The clients changed. The job didn’t: walk in with people facing a process that wasn’t built for them, and get them through it.

Today that means cannabis licensing, trademarks, and business law for first-time founders — especially entrepreneurs from the communities prohibition was used against, who are claiming their place in the legal market.

“I spent the first decade of my career representing people the system wasn’t built for. Now I help them own a piece of it.”

Community

The work doesn’t stop at the office.

Alaf Equity exists because legalization should reach the people prohibition was used against. That isn’t a marketing line — it’s the firm’s founding premise, and it shows up in who we work with and the organizations we show up for.