Jennifer R. Trowbridge, Esq.

Jennifer Trowbridge, Esq. serves as Jr. Partner at Jacko Law Group, PC (“JLG”) where she provides corporate and regulatory counsel to clients with diverse business models and various backgrounds. Within her practice, Ms. Trowbridge not only focuses on corporate securities, corporate finance, corporate transactions as well as general corporate governance but also provides advice on employment, intellectual property, and real property issues  to both private and publicly traded companies. With a focus on compliance, she also works with cannabis-related companies with securities offerings, agreements, licensing applications and on-going compliance with the ever-changing state regulations.

With her extensive experience, she assists clients with private and public offerings (Regulation D, Reg A+, etc.), registration of securities (Forms S-1, S-8, etc.), mergers, acquisitions, stock and asset purchases joint venture agreements, license agreements and periodic SEC and OTC Markets  filing compliance (Annual and Quarterly Reports and Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, etc.) employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, trademark and copyright registration and protection, trade secret protection, commercial lease negotiation and agreements and more. Her focus is on ensuring a client’s compliance with the patchwork of state, federal and local regulations, a company is tasked with managing. When issues arise, she can also assist in dispute resolution through the negotiation and preparation of settlement agreement, but also through to Arbitration. Overall she acts general counsel for her clients.

Previously, Ms. Trowbridge served as In-House Counsel to a privately held vertically integrated cannabis company, where she oversaw their compliance Federal, State and local rules and regulations. She also managed several private offerings of both debt and equity and managed the company’s existing convertible debt obligations. Before that, Ms. Trowbridge was a Senior Securities and Business Transactions Attorney at Weintraub Law Group, PC, Securities and Business Transactional Attorney at Trowbridge Mills Law Group, APC and Attorney at Stoecklein Law Group, LLP.

Ms. Trowbridge received her J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she received the Pro Bono Honors Certificate, CALI Award for Academic Excellence, and the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence for both Constitutional Law and Role of Small Business in Community Economic Development. Prior to that, Ms. Trowbridge received her Paralegal Certificate, with honors, from the University of San Diego and is a graduate of Chapman University where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Leadership.

Ms. Trowbridge Is admitted to the State Bar of California. She also proudly teaches both Introduction to Business Entities and Intellectual Property at the University of San Diego’s School of Law’s Paralegal Program.

Practice Areas

• Corporate Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions
• Corporate Finance and Venture Capital
• SEC and FINRA Examinations and Investigations
• General Counsel Services and Corporate Governance 
• Investment Adviser, Broker-Dealer, Investment Company, Private Fund and Issuer Regulatory Counsel
• Employment Law
• Intellectual Property 
• Cannabis Industry Compliance
• Real Estate

Awards & Recognitions

Finalist, 40 Next Top Business Leaders Under 40, San Diego Business Journal (2021, 2020)

Women of Influence in Law, San Diego Business Journal (2021)

Women of Influence, SD Metro (2021)

Rising List, National Association of Women Lawyers (2021)

Legal Risk Management Tips

Media Mentions

Blog Posts

Industry Affiliations

National Association of Woman Lawyers

Lawyers Club of San Diego