Kaival Brands Appoints James W. Dobbins as Senior Vice President, General Counsel
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Former Turning Point Brands (NYSE: TPB) General Counsel brings more than three decades of corporate counsel experience focused on nicotine, cannabis, and adjacent consumer categories
GRANT-VALKARIA, Fla., Dec. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: KAVL) ("Kaival Brands," the "Company," or "we"), today announced that it has appointed James W. Dobbins as General Counsel effective December 5, 2023.
Barry Hopkins, Executive Chairman of Kaival Brands, said, “James Dobbins has extensive experience advising companies on a breadth of legal matters, and importantly, he also has a deep, relevant understanding of industry business operations, including corporate governance, M&A, international sourcing, and compliance matters. Along with an anticipated reduction in legal expenses, we are thrilled to welcome James to guide and assist our executive leadership team as the Company seeks to execute upon a more aggressive growth strategy near term.”
Mr. Dobbins joins the Company with more than three decades of legal experience. Most notably, he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Turning Point Brands, Inc. (NYSE: TPB) He has expertise in corporate legal, public affairs and human resources matters including litigation, intellectual property, SEC reporting, M&A and structured finance, anti-counterfeiting, manufacturing, employment and regulatory affairs and compliance, marketing and sales, contracts, international sourcing (including China), governance, government relations, and FDA matters.
Prior to Turning Point Brands, he spent several years in private practice. Mr. Dobbins began his legal career with the law firm of Webster and Sheffield in New York. Prior to joining Kaival, he provided client counseling for litigation and other matters in various industries and served on the Board of Directors of both for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Mr. Dobbins earned a B.A. in Political Science and Mathematics from Drew University and a Juris Doctor (JD) from Fordham University.
ABOUT KAIVAL BRANDS
Based in Grant-Valkaria, Florida, Kaival Brands is a company focused on incubating innovative and profitable adult-focused products into mature and dominant brands, with a current focus on the distribution of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) also known as “e-cigarettes”. Our business plan is to seek to diversify into distributing other nicotine and non-nicotine delivery system products (including those related to hemp-derived cannabidiol (known as CBD) products). Kaival Brands and Philip Morris Products S.A. (via sublicense from Kaival Brands) are the exclusive global distributors of all products manufactured by Bidi Vapor.