Kai-Friedrich Niermann

Kai-Friedrich Niermann is an attorney and the founder of KFN+ Law Office. His practice focuses on cannabis and business law. He advises companies and associations at the intersection of business practice and the legal framework governing medical cannabis, industrial hemp, and CBD.

Through KFN+, he supports companies from their founding and contract drafting, through the development and marketing of their products, to providing legal counsel for day-to-day business operations. This includes regulatory issues related to cultivation, production, import, and distribution, as well as the structuring of international business relationships. When necessary, his work also includes representation in matters of white-collar crime.

His clients include companies in the medical cannabis and CBD sectors, as well as companies and growers’ associations in the non-medical cannabis sector. As legal counsel to the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA), he focuses in particular on the European regulatory framework for industrial hemp and CBD, as well as novel food authorization procedures.

His advice combines legal analysis with an understanding of business models, economic interests, and the unique characteristics of an internationally oriented industry. The focus is on providing clear answers to complex legal questions and practical solutions for business implementation.

On his blog, canna-biz.legal, Kai-Friedrich Niermann analyzes and comments on developments in German and European cannabis law. In addition, he publishes articles in legal journals and industry media such as Krautinvest and BusinessCann, and regularly speaks at international conferences.

Born in Löhne, Westphalia, in 1972, he studied law at the universities of Marburg, Adelaide (Australia), and Cologne. He served as a press officer at the German Bundestag’s Press Center (1999–2000), followed by a legal clerkship culminating in the Second State Examination (bar exam), with placements at the Berlin Regional Court and the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office, as well as at the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Consulate General of Hong Kong.