This is a Great Opportunity to Bring Serious Deal Flow
and Main Stream Transactional Services to the Cannabis & Hemp
Sector
Las Vegas, NV -- May 22, 2018 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire --
Freedom Leaf, Inc., (OTCQB: FRLF), a group of
international, vertically integrated hemp businesses and cannabis
media companies, has purchased a 25 percent equity interest in
Cicero Transact, an invitation-only online community dedicated to
forging strategic business alliances and a solid method of
transacting business.
A leading resource on the cannabis, medical marijuana, and
industrial hemp industries since 2014, Freedom Leaf Inc. As part of
this expansion, one of Freedom Leaf’s has just added to its
investments a 25 percent equity interest in the business
transaction platform Cicero Transact Group, LLC. Clifford J
Perry, CEO, Freedom Leaf Inc says “This is a great opportunity to
bring serious deal flow and main stream transactional services to
the Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Industry. Our goal is to
help the growth of the Cicero Transaction Platform at a rapid pace
leveraging our strong business relationships throughout our teams
long careers in and out of the Cannabis and Industrial Hemp
Industry.”
“Freedom Leaf is a mainstay in the Cannabis and Industrial Hemp
Industry and its executive team has extensive influence in that
space as well as other industries that their extensive careers have
taken them. They will be a great source of introducing
valuable members to Cicero Transact, according to Michael Woloshin,
Co-Founder and a managing partner of Cicero Transact Group,
LLC.
Described as a “transactional version of LinkedIn,” Cicero
Transact is a new, exclusive platform that brings together
startups, entrepreneurs, companies, venture capital, and private
equity firms to facilitate joint ventures, strategic partnerships,
product and service transactions, mergers and acquisitions. Unlike
other social business platforms, Cicero Transact allows members to
follow deal flows, get involved in new deal flows, and utilize
contacts and connections to transact new business.
The Company intends to work with Cicero in regard to deals
related to the Cannabis and Industrial Hemp industry as well as
other areas that can drive revenue. A soft launch of
the Cicero Platform will take place in August of 2018 with a full
launch shortly thereafter.
“Cicero Transact fills the gaps left behind by other online
business communities, which don’t offer members ways to conduct
transactions directly through their platforms,” says Joe Abrams,
who Co-Founded the MySpace predecessor Intermix and now serves as a
managing member of Cicero Transact. “Freedom Leaf is getting in on
the ground floor with its equity interest in Cicero Transact, which
in turns helps us to create a more robust, valuable service for our
members.”
Members will have the ability to execute their business models
abroad as well, with strategic introductions in more than 20
countries.
Michael Woloshin is a highly skilled,
entrepreneurial-minded leader with decades of experience in
technology, business development, marketing and brand building.
Michael was the driving force behind
developing, expanding and managing Candidates On Demand
Group, which was ranked No. 4 in the Crain's New York Business list
of the New York Area's Largest Executive Recruiters. Mike utilizes
his expertise in creating strategic partnerships and joint ventures
for Recruiter.com and its subsidiaries. Michael is also Co-Founder
and CEO of Recruiter.com. Recruiter.com has among the largest
LinkedIn Groups of any other member with the following LinkedIn
Groups being the largest in their category: CFO, CIO and
CMO.
Joseph “Joe” W. Abrams has vast experience in helping
early-stage, private and publicly held technology companies
accelerate growth. Mr. Abrams co-founded Intermix, Inc., the
parent company of MySpace, in 1998. Intermix was sold to News
Corp in September 2005 for $580 million. Prior to that Mr.
Abrams co-founded The Software Toolworks, Inc. which was sold to
Pearson, PLC for $463 million. He serves on Several private
and nonprofit boards, including the board of the William E. Simon
Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester.
About Cicero Transact
Cicero Transact is an invitation-only online community dedicated
to forging strategic business alliances. Members gain an inside
look at startups, entrepreneurs, and companies seeking support to
enhance and execute their business models. Cicero Transact covers
all business verticals and allows members to actively review deals
and select opportunities that best suit their expertise. Members
can participate in and earn on deals directly through the Cicero
Transact platform. Simply put, the platform allows users to
leverage their existing tools, resources, and contacts into income
on new deals. The founding members of Cicero Transact have more
$100 of millions in transactions under their belt,
collectively.
About Freedom Leaf Inc.®
Freedom Leaf Inc., The Marijuana Legalization
Company®, is a group of diversified, international,
vertically-integrated hemp businesses and cannabis media companies.
Freedom Leaf Inc. is a fully-reporting and audited publicly-traded
company under the symbol (OTCQB: FRLF). Freedom
Leaf Inc. has been a leading go-to resource in the cannabis,
medical marijuana, and industrial hemp industries since 2014,
founded by professionals with over 200 years combined experience in
marijuana legalization advocacy. FRLF building a diverse portfolio
of valuable businesses through strategic mergers, acquisitions, and
acceleration projects across the industry.
FRLF’s large portfolio of acquisitions and properties includes:
our recently acquired hemp CBD product line Irie
CBD, our wholly-owned hemp extraction
division Leafceuticals, Inc., our exclusive
health and wellness CBD brand Hempology, our
60,000 acres of indoor hemp greenhouse cultivation and 200 acres of
outdoor cultivation with Green Market Europe,
our hemp-based rolling paper company Plants to
Paper, two of the largest Spanish-speaking cannabis web
portals in the
world LaMarihuana.com and Marihuana-Medicinal.com,
and of course our flagship publication, Freedom Leaf
Magazine.
Utilizing these mergers and acquisitions, Freedom Leaf Inc. is
continually building a solid foundation for our
vertically-integrated hemp company to maximize both shareholder
value and revenue growth. Our cultivation and extraction divisions
allow FRLF to grow and source our own hemp CBD, which allows
dramatically lower production costs for our wholly-owned CBD
product lines, thereby generating more revenue for each product
sold. We also formulate and manufacture the majority of our
products in our own in-house formulation centers, also greatly
reducing our costs and increasing revenue. In addition, our
extensive domestic and international media companies ensure we can
continuously direct traffic to our many ecommerce sites and
nationwide retail locations.
Freedom Leaf, Inc. does not handle, grow, sell, or dispense
marijuana or related products.
All of our European activities are in full compliance with relevant
EU laws.
Investor relations information can be found on
the FreedomLeafInc.com company website.
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Contact: Freedom Leaf, Inc. Raymond Medeiros PR and Business Development Director Phone: 415-601-1974 ray@freedomleaf.com