Renowned Cannabis and Biosciences Lawyer Peter Homberg Unexpectedly Passed Away
2025-12-06 | The legal and cannabis industry was deeply affected on Friday, November 5, by the news of the sudden death of Peter Homberg, who was considered one of the most internationally renowned lawyers in the sector, as reported by cannareporter.
The lawyer, specializing in corporate law, intellectual property (IP), and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), dedicated his professional career in particular to biosciences law and, in recent years, primarily to cannabis law. The news was announced in an official statement from his law firm, gunnercooke. gunnercooke highlighted in its statement that Homberg “brought people together and kept them together,” and his positive spirit and passion would live on through his colleagues. Just on the day of his unexpected death, Peter Homberg had shared an enthusiastic message on LinkedIn about his participation in the Euroforum Annual Conference on Dietary Supplements 2025 in Düsseldorf, where he took part in a panel discussion on “CBD in Dietary Supplements – Between Therapeutic Promises and Legal Obstacles.” This post, characterized by optimism, is now considered one of his last public testimonies of his work. In the course of his career,
Peter Homberg worked as a consultant for start-ups, corporations, and international investors and contributed significantly to the creation of a more mature regulatory framework for medical cannabis in Europe. Peter Homberg made valuable contributions to the professional discussion with constructive proposals, most recently in the LTO on the current MedCanG discussion.
The BvCW loses an recognized expert, friend, and valued member with him. We express our condolences and sympathy to his family, friends, and all business contacts. Further condolences can be found from KrautInvest, Cannamedical Pharma, CannaReporter, Materia Deutschland, PTMC – Portugal Medical Cannabis and Sean Hocking on LinkedIn. His work in the industry, which enjoyed a high reputation and earned him, among other things, the award for “Life Sciences Lawyer of the Year,” will sustainably shape medical cannabis law.
