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IV Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Conference Speakers

After completing his MBA at we talk about social entrepreneurship Oxford with a Skoll Scholarship, and social enterprises. Defnitions are he was selected for the Global critically important to the productive Shapers network, a World development of emerging felds. Economic Forum community. José Miguel Alfaro Senior Manager, s.e.e.d. by EY Central America In 2018, s.e.e.d., a boutique law frm founded by Alfaro, became seed by EY Andrea Armeni Central America, EY Central America’s Anat Alon-Beck Co-Founder and Executive Director, business unit in charge of serving Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business, Transform Finance “strategic growth markets,” including New York University School of Law Andrea Armeni is the co-founder and venture capital, startups, SMEs, social Anat Alon-Beck is the Jacobson executive director of Transform Finance, enterprises, and impact . With Fellow in Law and Business at New a feld-building organization exploring the integration, seed by EY Central York University School of Law. She the intersection of fnance and social America is able to further scale its will be joining Case Western Reserve change with both investors and activ- presence in Latin American markets, University School of Law as an assis- ists. Armeni is also the lead convener of leverage tech-based solutions for legal tant professor. Her research focus is in the complementary Transform Finance services, and strengthen its systemic corporate law, , Network, a community of approach to pro bono initiatives. contracts, entrepreneurship, and inno- practice of family offces, foundations, Additionally, since late 2016 Alfaro vation, with an interdisciplinary empha- pension funds, and other asset owners has been engaged as legal counsel sis on the intersection of law with with a social justice approach. He is for Carao Ventures, assisting the frm business, management, fnance, ethics, recognized as an innovator in the feld and its portfolio companies in a wide strategy, society, sustainability, and the of impact investing, particularly at the variety of legal matters ranging from natural environment. She is passionate nexus of capital and systemic change. day-to-day legal advice to fnanc- about empowering women to advance He is a private equity by training ing and mergers and acquisitions. in entrepreneurship and leadership and has taught at the Yale Law School positions in the business world. and at Université Paris-Dauphine in Back in 2009, when he launched France. He is a BMW Foundation s.e.e.d., Alfaro coordinated legal affairs Alon-Beck’s most recent article, Responsible Leader, serves as fnance of outstanding ventures in various “Unicorn Stock Options—Golden advisor to the United Nations’ Joint felds of the impact investing spectrum, Goose or Trojan Horse?” is published SDG Fund, and sits on the board of such as sustainability, tech, conserva- in Columbia Business Law Review. directors of the CARE tion, micro-fnance, fair trade, culture, Several media outlets and corporate Enterprises, Inc. and of the NGO education, volunteering, health, sports, law blogs featured her research, includ- Finance for Good Brazil. Armeni is an and development. He also actively pro- ing Business Law Prof Blog, Harvard adjunct faculty member at the NYU moted socially responsible investments Corporate Governance Blog, Mayer Wagner Graduate School of Public and the enhancement of the social Brown’s Free Writings + Perspectives, Service[EK2], where he lectures in business ecosystem in Latin America. Money Stuff: Bloomberg Opinion, the master’s program. Most recently, and TheMarker Magazine. Alfaro started his career as corporate he is the author of “Private Equity counsel in one of the largest corpo- Her article, “The Law of Social Funds as Vehicles to Drive Employee rate law frms in Central America. He Entrepreneurship—Creating Shared Ownership Conversions,” “Innovative worked as coordinator of a multi-feld Value through the Lens of Sandra Financing Structures for Social legal practice in corporate and commer- Day O’Connor’s iCivics,” published Enterprises,” and, as co-author, the cial law, real estate, trusts and estates, in University of Pennsylvania Business briefng “Renewable Energy: Managing mergers and acquisitions, and litigation Law Review, considers the merits and Investors’ Risks and Responsibilities.” and arbitration. There, he founded downsides of pushing for hard bound- the Costa Rican Pro Bono Committee, aries on the vocabulary we use when through which he worked with such NGOs as TECHO and Grameen Bank. June 4–5, 2019 New York University School of Law #NYULawGrunin2019 1 Conference Speakers

Shena Ashley Constance E. Bagley Stephanie Bagot Vice President, Center on Nonprofts Senior Research Fellow, Senior Attorney, and Philanthropy, Urban Institute Yale School of Management FINCA Impact Finance As vice president and the director Constance E. Bagley is a Senior Stephanie J. Bagot is a senior attorney of the Center on Nonprofts and Research Fellow at Yale School of at FINCA Impact Finance, a global Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Management, where she was pre- microfnance organization with 20 Institute, Shena Ashley leads research, viously professor in the practice of subsidiaries in Latin America, Africa, technical assistance, and advisory law and management and a Senior Eurasia, Middle East and South Asia. services to provide evidence and Research Scholar at Yale Law School. She is the lead attorney for cross-bor- insights that inform the social impact She is also founder and CEO of Bagley der mergers and acquisitions in the sector and advance effective strategies Strategic Advisors LLC. Prior to joining network, and she also advises on to achieve better outcomes for people the Yale faculty, she was an associate corporate law and corporate gover- and communities nationwide. Dr. professor of business administration nance. Bagot has 20 years of legal Ashley has led the expansion of the at Harvard Business School, senior experience as an international trans- center’s policy research and program- lecturer in law and management actional attorney and was a senior matic initiatives, including projects at Stanford Graduate School of associate in the Business section at related to democratizing charitable Business, and a partner at Bingham Holland & Knight prior to joining giving, impact investing, and equitable McCutchen. She was also on the faculty FINCA. She also served as vice pres- grantmaking while spearheading the of the Young Presidents Organization ident and board member of the French- transformation of the National Center University for Presidents in Hong Kong American Chamber of Commerce of on Charitable Statistics (NCCS) to and the Czech Republic. She received Washington, DC, and currently chairs a freely accessible, open-data plat- her AB, with honors and distinction, the International Business Committee. form. She is committed to making from Stanford University; her JD, Bagot earned a law degree and a the center a model for training the magna cum laude, from Harvard Law diploma in English law (DEJA) from the next generation of diverse, engaged School; and an honorary doctorate Université Paris-X, an LLM in interna- scholars who can work to elevate the in economics from Lund University. tional law from American University, voice and expertise of the practitioners and a master’s degree in international Professor Bagley is the author of on the frontlines of social change. affairs from Georgetown University. Managers and the Legal Environment: Bagot is a native French speaker and Dr. Ashley currently serves on the Strategies for Business (9th ed.); The has good knowledge of Spanish. She board of ARNOVA and the edi- Entrepreneur’s Guide to Law and is admitted to practice law in New torial boards of the Nonproft Strategy (5th ed.), one of Business York, Washington, DC, and France. and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ) Insider’s must-read 25 books for and the Nonproft Quarterly. Before entrepreneurs; and Winning Legally: joining the Urban Institute, Dr. Using the Law to Create Value, Marshal Ashley held academic positions at Resources, and Manage Risk. She has Syracuse University and Georgia published in multiple journals, includ- State University and led research ing Academy of Management Review, and policy at the Annie E. Casey Harvard Law Review, Duke Journal Foundation’s Civic Site. of Comparative and International Law, Pennsylvania Business Law Journal, American Business Law Journal, and Cardozo Law Review.

2 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond to Justice Commission, and treasurer of the Public Market. Bal graduated from Williams College and Northeastern University School of Law.

Navjeet Bal Johanna Beduhn Managing Director and PhD Candidate in Developmental General Counsel, Social Finance Economics, American University Navjeet K. Bal is managing director Johanna Beduhn is a PhD candidate and general counsel at Social Finance. at American University in develop- She is responsible for working with Amélie Baudot ment economics, with a professional the Social Finance team to develop General Counsel and Company background in program evaluation and execute innovative fnancings that Secretary, Global Innovation Fund for Oxfam America, USAID, and bring together the public, private, and Amélie Baudot is the general counsel GlobalPACT, as well as for the United nonproft sectors to promote solutions and company secretary of the Global Food and Commercial Workers to social needs. Bal brings to Social Innovation Fund (GIF), a nonproft fund International Union. Her research Finance over 25 years of experience whose mission is to identify, fund, and focuses on the microeconomics of as a public fnance attorney and a scale evidence-based innovations that gender and employment, including public offcial. As bond counsel to measurably improve the lives of the employment decisions at the individ- the Commonwealth of Massachusetts world’s poor. Baudot oversees legal ual and household level. Beduhn’s and many public authorities through- matters across GIF’s operations and US-focused work seeks an understand- out Massachusetts and New England, grant and risk capital portfolio. As a ing of women’s employment decisions she was responsible for structuring member of the senior management against the rapidly evolving backdrop innovative bond fnancings to address team, Baudot contributes to GIF’s of gender norms. In developing country critical infrastructure needs. In addition, operational strategy, governance, contexts, her work has focused on how she represented the Commonwealth and risk management. She previ- public policy and development pro- of Massachusetts in negotiating and ously served as in-house counsel to gram design interacts with local gender documenting its groundbreaking Pay AgDevCo, a social impact investor norms to produce intended or unin- for Success contracts addressing juve- and agribusiness developer focusing tended impacts. As a research fellow nile justice and chronic homelessness. on Sub-Saharan Africa. Baudot began with Oxfam America, she conducted her legal career in private practice as a a study on gender-differential impacts Bal served as the commissioner of restructuring lawyer at Allen & Overy in of a lack of free school transportation Revenue in Governor Deval Patrick’s New York and London advising clients on educational outcomes in Kenya, administration from 2008 through on a range of fnancing transactions with the purpose of identifying areas 2011, where she was responsible for and in the international develop- in which de jure gender-neutral public a 2,000-person agency with three ment sphere on a pro bono basis. policy may be improved to eliminate lines of business: Tax Administration, de facto discrimination. Beduhn served Child Support Enforcement, and Baudot is admitted to practice law as research analyst for independent the Division of Local Services. in New York and is a solicitor of performance evaluations of USAID England & Wales. She has a JD from Bal has held many leadership positions Feed the Future activities. Her current New York University School of Law, in legal, community, and professional independent research study with The an MA from the Graduate Institute of organizations, including serving as a Fund for Peace focuses on the role of International and Development Studies member of the Boston Bar Association divestment, SRI, and shareholder action (Geneva), and a BA in International Council, where she served on the in promoting socially responsible Relations from Connecticut College. Executive Committee from 2011 to business practices. 2014. She is a board member of the Legal Advocacy and Resource Center, a commissioner emeritus of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Access

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Colborn Bell John Berger Lorenzo Bernasconi Founder, 5th Element Group PBC; Impact Solutions Architect, Toniic Senior Associate Director, Innovative Director, SDG Impact Fund John Berger, CFA, is responsible Finance, The Rockefeller Foundation Colborn Bell is a founder of the 5th for building and expanding impact Lorenzo Bernasconi joined The Element Group PBC and director of solutions at Toniic Institute, a global Rockefeller Foundation in 2013. As the SDG Impact Fund, whose vision community of high net worth indi- senior associate director, he is respon- is to help create a new socio-eco- vidual, family offce, and foundation sible for the foundation’s innovative nomic era that closes historic gaps in asset owners who are active in seeking fnance and impact investing portfo- last-mile inclusion and engages the deeper impact in all investments, and lio. His work focuses on identifying “bottom billion” to take true quantum in their lives. His portfolio at Toniic and shaping new fnancing solutions leaps for humanity, prosperity, and includes writing for and working on that unlock private sector capital the planet through integrating the ImpactTerms.org, a curated library to address the world’s most critical most innovative blockchain and smart of innovations in impact investing problems with a focus on the founda- contract technologies into new impact terms and investment structures, tion’s dual goals of building resilience capital vehicles and products. Bell is available to entrepreneurs, inves- and promoting inclusive economies. the founder and managing principal tors, and impact professionals. Prior to joining The Rockefeller of Finite Square Well, a pioneer- Prior to his work at Toniic, after 17 Foundation, he worked at Dalberg ing crypto-assets management and years as an investment banker, Berger Global Development Advisors, the services company that develops and was the CFO, COO, and co-founder of Boston Consulting Group, and in the executes investment strategies for Her Future Coalition, an international investment banking division of UBS. select private families and UHNW organization that creates empowering individuals seeking intelligent access Dr. Bernasconi holds dual Ecuadorian opportunities for survivors of gender to the rapidly emerging global capital and Swiss citizenship. He received a violence to build an independent, safe, paradigm shift in crypto and digital bachelor’s degree in economics from and rewarding future. He was also assets. Bell also leads the US-based the London School of Economics and co-founder of Relevée Jewelry LLC, a private family offce for a prominent a PhD from Cambridge University woman-owned, high-margin, fne jew- Middle Eastern family managing and was a post-doctoral fellow at elry . It was Berger’s investments in green energy, education, Columbia University’s Earth Institute. work for Relevée that led to his role as hospitality, aviation, real estate, and art He sits on the board of Spring client and banker on the team behind and specializes in enabling tech- and Bank, a Bronx-based community the Grunin Prize-winning investment innovation-focused companies develop bank focused on the underbanked structure Performance Aligned Stock. or expand their Middle Eastern pres- communities of New York City. ence. Previously, he was with Abacus Wealth Partners leading daily trading of over 1,000 client accounts with $1B+ AUM. He also worked with UNCDF and began his career in investment banking with Laidlaw & Company allocating PIPE deals for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and eHarmony.

4 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Bham is qualifed to practice in She is also The Chief of the Block New York, the District of Columbia, at the Blockchain Accelerator for England and Wales, and before the Global Growth, which helps com- US Supreme Court. She holds an AB panies become fundable with the from Harvard University and a JD from Due Diligence Intensive, a 31-page Georgetown University. She speaks analysis of the company for tradi- Leila Bham Burmese, French, and Spanish. tional and blockchain funding and Senior Special Counsel, International Business Focus for grow- Offce of Legal Policy, Offce of ing and scaling a company globally. General Counsel, US Securities and Exchange Commission Previously, Bickham was the direc- Leila Bham is senior special counsel tor of Engineering for Flexeye at the US Securities and Exchange where she architected, designed, Commission, in the Offce of General and coded the 2014 Gartner Cool Counsel’s Offce of Legal Policy. She Barbara Bickham Vendor Award Winning REST API for advises on regulatory initiatives, Founder and Managing Director, their IoT platform eyehubiot.com. including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Women’s Innovation Fund Bickham founded TechGenii, Inc., a dig- Reform and Consumer Protection Accelerator ital strategy company; Wilderforex.com, Act, Regulation Crowdfunding, Barbara Bickham is a CTO with a Forex Software company; and PCNLA, and issues of technology in mar- extensive experience in technology an investment association connecting ket structure and access to capi- and entrepreneurship. Her current Southern California businesses with tal. She is a two-time recipient of areas of expertise are in Internet venture funding. She has more than the SEC’s Law and Policy Award. of Things, blockchain, augmented seven years of experience preparing reality, and artifcial intelligence. Previously, Bham provided legal coun- and evaluating companies for private sel to the World Bank’s Financial Market Bickham is the managing director for equity and venture capital fnancing. Integrity Unit. She began her career Women’s Innovation Fund Accelerator She is on the Advisory Board of practicing as an associate and senior (wifaxvc.com), an opportunity zone the MIND Institute, MindMusic, associate at the law frm Freshfelds fund accelerating growth by using a and Yummy Society and is a men- Bruckhaus Deringer in London, advis- mix of incubation, shared workspace, tor for Springboard Enterprises, ing on global capital raisings and and business fnance while requiring Stubbs Alderton PreCellerator, listings by issuers based in Europe, the participants to have a C-suite made and MakeInLA. She is an advisor Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. up of at least 50 percent women. and EIR at the Bixel Exchange. With the American Bar Association, Bickham is also currently founder and She holds degrees from the University Bham advises on legal reforms in CTO of Trailyn Ventures, a Blockchain of Chicago and New Entrepreneurs Myanmar, and co-chaired an Annual Advisory Company. She provides stra- Program, an MSCS from West Coast Meeting of the International Law tegic advice and technical execution University, and a BACS from the Section. She is a past co-chair of the for companies incorporating blockchain University of California, Berkeley. conference on Legal Issues in Social and/or artifcial intelligence into their Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing company and products. Companies at NYU School of Law and co-launched include The Aclyd Project—Payment the DC Chapter of the Impact Investing and Remittance on the Blockchain; Legal Working Group. She also serves 2TransFair—Payment and Remittance as elected Steering Committee vice on the Blockchain; Plaak—Exchange; chair of the DC Bar’s Corporation, EVRealities—AR/VR Attribution on Finance and Securities Law Community. the Blockchain; Rechain—Universal Rewards on the Blockchain, and others.

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Jane Bieneman Lauren Boccardi Aaron Bourke Senior Advisor, Tideline Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Senior Associate, Reed Smith; Jane Bieneman is a senior advisor at US Agency for International Co-Founder, the Impact Investing Tideline, a consulting frm that pro- Development Legal Working Group (IILWG) vides tailored advice to clients devel- Lauren Boccardi currently serves as Aaron Bourke is a senior associate oping impact investment strategies, the deputy assistant general counsel in Reed Smith’s Global Corporate products, and solutions. She joined for USAID’s Bureau for Food Security Group, practicing primarily in the area Tideline in 2015 and focuses on client and for the Bureau for Democracy, of private fund formation and coun- engagement, research and strategy. Confict and Humanitarian Assistance. seling (including traditional private Her work at USAID has covered pri- equity funds, venture capital funds, Bieneman’s career spans senior roles vate sector engagement, legislation and similar types of private invest- in investment banking at UBS and and policy, and Middle East issues. ment vehicles). He also advises limited Citigroup, where she worked with partners on investments into private private equity frms and other fnan- Boccardi has extensive experience equity and venture capital funds cial sponsors to help them structure working in the government, private and has engaged in a range of other and raise funds totaling over $30 and nonproft sectors. Prior to join- types of transactions, including direct billion of capital. She also has exten- ing USAID, she worked on a wide investments and brand licensing deals. sive experience helping public sector, range of corporate transactions as corporate, and fnancial institution a corporate lawyer at Debevoise & Bourke has focused his practice in clients raise debt and equity capital Plimpton, focusing in particular on particular on the growing social impact to fund and grow their businesses. energy and environmental work. She investing industry. He is a founding has worked with various nonprofts, member of Reed Smith’s Social Impact In addition, she advised Women’s including a women’s group in Oaxaca, Finance Group, and in that capacity he World Banking on the creation of its Mexico, and was the manager of has advised several sponsors on the inaugural fund to invest in microfnance Communications and Research for an formation of social impact funds and institutions globally and worked on internet software company in New York. limited partners on investments into product development, restructurings, social impact funds. He is a founding and other fnancial advisory assign- Boccardi is a graduate of Harvard Law member and a leader of the Impact ments at impact investment manager School and earned her master’s degree Investing Legal Working Group (IILWG), BlueOrchard Finance. She started from the Fletcher School of Law and a network of attorneys working in the her career in commercial banking at Diplomacy at Tufts University. She areas of impact investing and social Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati. received her undergraduate degree enterprise, and in that capacity he has from Georgetown University. She is Bieneman holds a BA in govern- helped build the group’s membership a member of the bar in New York. ment from Dartmouth College to nearly 200 attorneys globally. He has and an MBA from the Kellogg been integrally involved in developing Graduate School of Management IILWG’s annual conference on legal at Northwestern University. issues in social entrepreneurship and impact investing, which is hosted in collaboration with the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law and drew over 300 attendees from around the world

6 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond in 2018. Bourke initiated and devel- volumes and many law journals, frm. From foundations and family oped the frm’s partnerships with the including Boston College Law Review, offces to funds and entrepreneurs, International Transactions Clinics at Emory Law Journal, Indiana Law Bromberger offers counsel and serves the University of Michigan Law School Journal, and Notre Dame Law Review. as a trusted advisor and connec- and New York University School of Law, tor for his clients. His ambition is to Professor Brakman Reiser is a member through which Reed Smith attorneys build legal systems for social beneft of the American Law Institute and was have supervised law students repre- that will thrive for years to come. an associate reporter for its project on senting impact investors and social the Principles of the Law of Nonproft enterprises on a broad array of trans- Organizations. She is also a mem- actions. He also regularly lectures at ber and past-chair of the Section on New York University School of Law on Nonproft and Philanthropy Law of the legal topics relating to impact investing. American Association of Law Schools, Bourke was previously a member and a member of the executive board of Reed Smith’s Financial Industry of its Section on Business Law. She Tom Brunner Group, where he gained experience is a graduate of the University of Formerly General Counsel, both as a litigator (three years) and Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. Leapfrog Investments as a corporate fnance attorney (one Tom Brunner retired at the end of 2018 year). He also spent six months on as a partner of LeapFrog Investments, secondment at Morgan Stanley which manages impact investment Wealth Management, where he funds supporting businesses serving focused on compliance with federal the emerging consumers of Africa and remittance transfer regulations. emerging Asia (defned as those living Allen Bromberger on approximately $10 a day). Brunner spent a decade at LeapFrog, serving as Partner, Perlman & Perlman its frst general counsel and compliance Allen Bromberger is nationally rec- offcer. Prior to joining LeapFrog, he ognized for his groundbreaking work headed the insurance law practice at on the development of nonproft Wiley Rein, a Washington, DC, law frm, and for-proft legal structures that representing US and international insur- Dana Brakman Reiser support the simultaneous pursuit of ers and insurance industry organiza- Professor of Law, fnancial and social goals. Through his tions in large-scale litigation. He served Brooklyn Law School legal practice, as author of The Art as co-chair of the Washington ’ Dana Brakman Reiser is currently of Social Enterprise, and as a speaker Committee for Civil Rights and Urban visiting professor of law at Fordham about the intersection of business and Affairs and received that group’s Wiley University School of Law and is a philanthropy, Bromberger has been at Branton Prize. Brunner is a gradu- Professor of Law and Former Vice the forefront of the fourth sector and ate of Columbia College, Columbia Dean at Brooklyn Law School. She social enterprise movements that have University, and Yale Law School. He teaches courses in corporations, social risen to prominence in recent years. lives with his wife Shelly in Washington, enterprise, nonproft law, property, His expertise in corporate matters DC, and New York and has three adult and trusts and estates. Her scholar- and business transactions includes children and four grandchildren. He is ship focuses on the law and fnance of social venture formation, fnance, joint a director of the International Senior philanthropic organizations and social ventures, mergers and acquisitions, Lawyers Project and coordinates the enterprises—businesses that pursue strategic philanthropy, cause mar- ISLP impact investment program. a social mission. Her most compre- keting, IP licensing, and regulatory hensive work on social enterprise is compliance. Before joining Perlman Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public & Perlman, he served as president of Beneft, And Capital Markets (Oxford Power of Attorney, a private operating University Press 2017) (with Professor foundation in New York City, and as Steven A. Dean). Her scholarship also executive director of Lawyers Alliance has appeared in numerous edited for New York, a public interest law

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Professor Burand received her BA, cum laude, from DePauw University and a joint degree, JD/MSFS with honors, from Georgetown University.

Mary Rose Brusewitz Deborah Burand Member, Clark Hill Associate Professor of Clinical Mary Rose Brusewitz is member Law; Faculty Co-Director of the in charge of Clark Hill’s New York Grunin Center for Law and Social offce. She concentrates her prac- Entrepreneurship; Director of tice on international transactions International Transactions Clinic, William Burckart involving Latin America, Africa, New York University School of Law President and Chief Operating Asia, India, Europe, and the US. Deborah Burand is an associate Offcer, The Investment professor of clinical law at New York Integration Project Brusewitz is active in impact investing, University School of Law, where she William Burckart is president and sustainability, accountability, ESG/SDG directs the International Transactions COO of The Investment Integration compliance, and corporate governance. Clinic and is the faculty co-direc- Project (TIIP), an applied research and She represents a provider of currency tor of the Grunin Center for Law consulting services frm that helps hedging to the impact space, as well as and Social Entrepreneurship. investors manage systemic societal several funds active in investing debt and environmental risks, and solve and equity in sectors including micro- In 2010-2011, Professor Burand served systemic problems. He has worked fnancing, solar energy, retail, sanita- as general counsel to the Overseas with a range of clients, including tion, and housing. She has substantial Private Investment Corporation, the frms, private experience in emerging markets devel- development fnance institution of the foundations and endowments, and opment and fnance. Areas include United States. Earlier in her career, she government and major industry bodies, infrastructure, water, power, oil and worked in the environmental sector helping them to integrate impact and gas, renewable energy, and mining. Her (Conservation International), micro- investment goals through the develop- expertise includes structuring, imple- fnance sector (FINCA International ment and implementation of ESG and menting, administering, and exiting and Grameen Foundation), and US impact investment strategies. He has impact debt and equity investments; government (Federal Reserve Board also contributed to the feld through coordinating groups of investors, and Department of the Treasury). She groundbreaking research, including including DFIs, privately managed also has worked in private practice the development of market insights funds, commercial banks, for-prof- at a global law frm, where, among and practical guidance for institu- its, and nonprofts; blended capital other things, she supported, on a pro tional investors and fnancial advisors structures; project and structured bono basis, the development of the in collaboration with the Money fnancing; private equity; cross-border world’s frst debt-for-nature swap. Management Institute (MMI); co-edit- investments; joint ventures; restruc- Professor Burand is a member of the ing New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A turings; workouts; insolvencies; and Board and Investment Committee Guide to the New Tools and Actors dispute resolution and mediation. of the MicroBuild Fund, an impact that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy Brusewitz contributes substantial time investment fund sponsored by Habitat and Social Investing (Oxford University and expertise on a pro bono basis for Humanity International. She is Press: 2014); and helping write the for impact clients. She was a compli- an advisor to the Linked Foundation, “Status of the Social impact invest- ance panel member and panel chair Social Sector Franchise Initiative, ing Market: A Primer” (UK Cabinet of the independent accountability and GIIN/ISLP Legal Practitioners Offce: 2013), which was distributed mechanism of the Inter-American Track. She co-founded the Impact to policymakers at the inaugural Development Bank. She is a pro Investing Legal Working Group G8-level forum on impact investing. bono supervising attorney at the (IILWG) and Women Advancing Burckart is a visiting scholar of the US International Transactions Clinic at Microfnance (WAM) International. Federal Reserve and is a founder or New York University School of Law.

8 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond co-founder of two impact investment advisory frms (Burckart Consulting and Impact Economy LLC).

Bruce D. Cameron Jackie Camp Director, Food Security and Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson Project Finance, Overseas Private Jackie Camp is a partner at Womble Investment Corporation (OPIC) Bond Dickinson law frm, serving clients Alice Decker Burke Bruce D. Cameron is the director, Ag across every business sector in 26 loca- Associate General Counsel, and Project Finance, at the Overseas tions in the UK and US. She is an expe- Special Assets, Overseas Private Private Investment Corporation, the rienced corporate lawyer with both Investment Corporation (OPIC) development fnance institution of borrower- and lender-side experience. Alice Decker Burke is the associate the US government. He has been at Camp began her legal career in 1988 general counsel for Special Assets OPIC for 23 years and has worked on at Ropes & Gray in Boston, where she at the Overseas Private Investment projects in a wide range of sectors had a more general corporate practice. Corporation, the US government’s and countries, currently focusing on In the late-1990s, she began to focus development fnance institution. Burke the Agribusiness and Food sector. more exclusively on debt fnancing. has worked in OPIC’s Legal Affairs OPIC is actively seeking and working Camp has extensive experience department for four years. Her work to develop game-changing projects representing lenders in international encompasses a variety of projects, and fnancial facilities for this sec- fnancings. At Womble Bond Dickinson, evenly divided between small and tor and is reaching far and wide to she leads a team of mostly women medium fnance, primarily in East bring non-traditional parties together attorneys, who regularly represent Africa, and transactional restructur- to discuss support from OPIC. two US governmental agencies and a ing of distressed loans across the Cameron previously worked for private equity company specializing in OPIC portfolio. Her fnance projects McDermott International’s Washington international project fnance, export have included innovative education Operations Offce, a multinational fnance, and micro lending. Camp’s fnance, sanitation, and agriculture. energy services company, on issues team has negotiated, documented, Prior to joining OPIC in 2015, Burke ranging from power project devel- and closed impact investment fnanc- worked for the Chicago offce of opment, oil, and gas, to defense ings around the globe, with particular Latham & Watkins for 10 years, with and energy government contracts. emphasis on the developing world. a combined practice of middle He also worked as an architec- market secured lending and cred- tural staff member at the Northern itor-side restructuring. In between Virginia architectural frm of Temple periods with Latham, she clerked Washington and Associates. for the US District Court for the Cameron holds an MBA as well as Northern District of Illinois. She a professional architecture degree holds a BA in economics from from Virginia Polytechnic Institute Camille Canon Swarthmore College and a JD from and State University (Virginia Tech). Partner, Purpose Network Northwestern University School of Law. Camille Canon is a partner of the Purpose Network, an international nonproft organization dedicated to researching and promoting stew- ard-ownership and alternative fnancing. Canon supports both startups and mid-sized businesses in their transi- tions to steward-ownership. She also manages the Purpose US research

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collaborations, partnership programs, social impact bonds. She led the and feld building. Prior to Purpose, she launch of the frst social impact led a multi-project real estate develop- bond in the City of Buenos Aires. ment initiative in Northern California Connolly founded the frm’s impact that combined affordable housing, business and, together with a group of hospitality business, and community Theodore Colombo professionals, provides strategic and programming to revitalize a neighbor- Lead Counsel, FinDev Canada legal services at the cutting edge of the hood. Canon graduated magna cum Theodore Colombo leads FinDev rapidly growing impact economy. She laude from Mount Holyoke College. Canada’s legal function. He began his is a member of the task force created legal career in private practice with by Argentina-Uruguay to promote McCarthy Tétrault in Montréal working impact investment in Argentina. She on private and public M&A and secu- advises on the design and develop- rities offerings. He moved to London, ment of impact funds with a view to qualifying as a solicitor while with mobilize sustainable investments or Linklaters’ Global Project Finance team, focused on sound ESG (environmen- Peter Cohen working on energy and infrastructure tal, social, and governance) practice. General Counsel, development and fnancing transac- Connolly was elected president of the Partnership for New York City tions around the world. Returning to Latin America Committee that brings Peter M. Cohen is general counsel of Canada, Colombo was an investments together the B Lawyers of the region the Partnership Fund for New York lawyer at the Business Development to promote the B Corporations. She City, a $120 million social impact Bank of Canada supporting the sub- was named “Lawyer of the Year” at the venture fund focused on creating ordinate fnancing and venture capital 2017 TrustLaw Awards, the Thomson jobs in New York City and growing groups and then counsel at Air Canada Reuters Foundation’s annual celebra- the local economy. The fund’s invest- working on commercial, operational, tion of outstanding pro bono work. ments range broadly—from projects and structured fnance transactions. She has authored several articles in inner-city neighborhoods that help He completed his legal studies at about corporate law and has been a provide employment and better McGill University and is a mem- speaker at various conferences. Her services to underserved populations ber of the Ontario and Quebec Bar most recent publications include: to those that catalyze the growth of Associations. He also holds an MA in “Legal Guide for Social Ventures in emerging tech sectors such as life history and was a Parliamentary intern Argentina: Which is the Most Suitable sciences and digital manufacturing. at the House of Commons in Ottawa. Structure to Create a Social Company?” Previously, Cohen practiced law at Paul, (Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2016). Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he represented publicly traded companies, fnancial advisors and institutions, and private equity inves- tors in connection with a variety of public and private transactions. Constanza Connolly Associate, Estudio Beccar Varela Leslie Cornell Constanza Connolly is senior asso- Associate General Counsel, ciate of Beccar Varela (Argentina). Social Finance Her practice areas include corporate Leslie Cornell is the associate gen- law and mergers and acquisitions. eral counsel at Social Finance. Prior She has broad expertise in devel- to Social Finance, she was a public oping businesses seeking positive fnance attorney, serving as bond social and environmental impact and counsel, underwriter’s counsel, and its fnancial structuring, including borrower’s counsel for a wide vari- ety of public fnance transactions,

10 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond including tax-exempt conduit holding leadership positions at the fnancings for nonproft universities, Steeltown Entertainment Project, a hospitals, health care systems, and -based social enterprise. cultural institutions. Her work also has included participation with Pay for Success fnancings, representing Steven Dean social service providers, investors, Professor and Faculty Director, municipal entities, and intermediaries. Graduate Tax Program, New York University School of Law Kevin Davis Steven Dean is currently the faculty Beller Family Professor of director of the Graduate Tax Program Business Law, New York University at NYU Law. His scholarship focuses School of Law on tax law and social enterprise law. Kevin Davis joined the New York Professor Dean has collaborated with Stephanie Dangel University School of Law as profes- Professor Dana Brakman Reiser on a Executive Director, Innovation sor of law in 2004. He was formerly a number of projects, including Social Practice Institute; Adjunct Professor tenured member of the University of Enterprise and the Law: Trust, Public of Law, University of Pittsburgh Toronto’s Faculty of Law. He teaches Beneft and Capital Markets (Oxford School of Law courses on contracts, law and devel- University Press 2017), exploring the Stephanie Dangel is the executive opment, and secured transactions, as role of the law in the growth of social director of the Innovation Practice well as seminars on fnancing develop- enterprise. Other work has consid- Institute (IPI) at the University of ment and contract theory. His current ered unconventional solutions to Pittsburgh School of Law (Pitt Law research is focused on contract law, longstanding problems such as tax School). The mission of the IPI is to the governance of fnancial transac- havens, regulatory complexity, and tax train law students to be and to serve tions involving developing countries, shelters. Professor Dean is a member innovators and entrepreneurs, with and the general relationship between of the Executive Committee of the a special emphasis on social inno- law and economic development. New York State Bar Association’s Tax vation and impact investing. For Section. Before teaching, he worked Professor Davis received his BA in more information on the IPI, see as an associate at two global law frms. Economics from McGill University in http://innovation-practice.net/. He graduated from Yale Law School. 1990. After graduating with an LLB Prior to joining Pitt Law School, from the University of Toronto in 1993, Dangel enjoyed successful careers as he served as law clerk to Justice John a practicing lawyer, social entrepre- Sopinka of the Supreme Court of neur, and documentary flmmaker. She Canada and later as an associate in graduated from the Wharton School the Toronto offce of Torys, a Canadian at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale law frm. After receiving an LLM from Law School, and Oxford University, Columbia University in 1996, he was Ana Demel where she was a Rhodes Scholar. appointed an assistant professor at Adjunct Professor of Law, the University of Toronto and was New York University School of Law Early in her legal career, Dangel had promoted to associate professor in member of the board, Vice-chair; the honor of clerking for Judge Pierre 2001. He has also been a visiting Chair of the Governance Committee, Leval at the US District Court in the assistant professor at the University Pro Mujer Inc. Southern District of New York and of Southern California, a visiting Ana Demel is a member of the board, Justice Harry Blackmun of the US fellow at Cambridge University’s vice-chair, and chair of the Governance Supreme Court. She also practiced Clare Hall, and a visiting lecturer at Committee of Pro Mujer Inc., a New law as an associate at K&L Gates the University of the West Indies in York-based not-for-proft dedicated to in Pittsburgh. She then pursued an Barbados. He came to NYU School of women’s empowerment through health interest in social entrepreneurship and Law as a visiting professor in 2003. services, training, and microfnance entertainment, which resulted in her in fve countries in Latin America. producing two documentaries and

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Demel also teaches The Law and member of several multinational National Advisory Board. She is also Business of Social Enterprise, Financing companies in the power industry working with National Treasury in Development, and Project Finance (utilities and renewables) and commod- South Africa to help integrate out- at New York University School of Law. ities trading businesses (agriculture, comes-based contracting mechanisms Prior to 2009, was a partner at the bio-energy, and food value chains). into supply chain management, as well international law frm of Cleary Gottlieb as with line departments and private Develle is passionate about bridg- Steen & Hamilton, where her practice donors to design outcomes-based ing planet conservation, sustainable focused on international fnancings funds and impact bonds. Those business models, business innovation, and business transactions, particularly projects cross the spectrum of early technology, and legal and policy stand- in Latin America. At Cleary Gottlieb, childhood development, access to SME points, especially in the renewable she advised private and public sector fnance, workforce development, job energy, commodities, agritech, and clients on a variety of transactions, creation, and health. Previously, de Witt mobility sectors. Expert at the World including structured fnance and proj- worked with the Social Investment and Commission Environmental Law of the ect fnance, as well as sovereign debt Finance Team in the UK Cabinet Offce IUCN in Switzerland, he participated in restructurings and mergers and acqui- engaging with social impact bonds the working group on Access Beneft sitions. In addition, was involved in pro specifcally and social investment policy Sharing to Marine Genetic Resources. bono matters involving microfnance. more broadly. She has worked as a As chair of the Switzerland Chapter veterinary surgeon in both the public Demel was distinguished by Chambers of New York-based The Explorers and private sector, in South Africa and USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Club, he is active in promoting sus- abroad, and holds an MBA from the Business for Latin American invest- tainability and innovative solutions UCT Graduate School of Business and ment and Chambers Latin America’s through scientifc exploration. Develle a BVSc from the University of Pretoria. Leading Lawyers for Business for is also a member of the Environmental corporate/M&A. She received a JD Lawyers Club (Club des Avocats from New York University School of Environnementalistes) (France). Law in 1986, where she was a note A French-qualifed “Avocat,” he editor of the Law Review, and an also graduated from the Institute undergraduate degree, magna cum of Political Studies of Paris (“Institut laude, from Brandeis University. She d’Etudes Politiques de Paris”) and is a member of the bar in New York. Edward Diener from Harvard Business School (AMP). Her native language is Spanish. Chief Operating Offcer and General Counsel, King Philanthropies Edward Diener is the chief operating offcer and general counsel at King Philanthropies. He provides expertise and leadership regarding fnancial, operational, legal, governance, invest- Laurent Develle Susan de Witt ment stewardship, risk management, Senior Project Manager— and tax matters. He is also nationally Of Counsel, Froriep Innovative Finance, Bertha recognized as a leading practitioner Laurent Develle, of counsel at Swiss Centre for Social Innovation & in program-related investing. Prior to law frm Froriep in Geneva, has been Entrepreneurship, Graduate School working at King Philanthropies, Diener advising clients on corporate, M&As, of Business, University of Cape Town worked for almost 13 years as the gen- environmental, and fnance matters Dr. Susan de Witt is the Innovative eral counsel of the Skoll Foundation for over 25 years. He spent most of Finance senior advisor at the Bertha after consulting for that foundation for his legal career abroad, including over Centre for Social Innovation and about a year. He was the vice president 10 years in Japan as a partner of a Entrepreneurship at the Graduate of Finance & Administration at the major US law frm. He has also worked School of Business in Cape Town. Omidyar Foundation (predecessor to for several years as group general She is currently heading up the sec- the Omidyar Network) in 2003-2004. counsel, compliance and sustainabil- retariat for the Impact Investing From 1996 to 2002, he worked at the ity offcer, and Executive Committee

12 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Packard Foundation in senior legal and fnance positions. A California attorney and certifed public accountant, Diener practiced commercial and corporate law for 17 years prior to entering the philanthropic sector. He holds a JD Ryan Dings Anmay Dittman from the UC Berkeley School of Law Chief Operating Offcer, Sunwealth Director, BlackRock and a bachelor’s degree in accounting A 2018 Boston Business Journal 40 Anmay Dittman, director, is a mem- from Bowling Green State University. Under 40 honoree, Ryan Dings is an ber of the BlackRock Real Assets experienced clean technology execu- business within BlackRock Alternative tive with a deep commitment to impact Investors, which manages over $45 investment. As chief operating offcer billion in equity and debt invest- of Sunwealth, an impact investment ments and investor commitments. frm focused on the commercial solar Dittman is responsible for facilitating market, he leads the development transaction executions and product of Sunwealth’s community of clean Lucas Diez-Suarez development for BlackRock Real Assets, Compliance Counsel, energy investors. In addition to his advising on investment and divestiture International Finance Corporation, role at Sunwealth, Dings serves as strategy, structuring and execution, World Bank Group the chair of the board of directors of due diligence review, negotiation of As Compliance counsel in IFC, Lucas the Social Innovation Forum, Boston’s deal documentation, portfolio opti- Diez-Suarez provides legal advice in leading community for social impact mization, and asset management. respect to integrity matters affect- engagement and connection. ing IFC transactions, including AML/ Prior to joining BlackRock, she was Prior to joining Sunwealth, Dings CFT regulations, anti-corruption laws, a director and senior counsel at served as vice president, general economic sanctions, tax evasion and , where she headed the counsel, and corporate secretary of abuse, and crisis management related legal coverage in the Americas for the Blu Homes, Inc., a leading, sustain- to signifcant integrity matters. He is Global Investment Solutions business. ably focused prefab home builder. also IFC’s liaison for World Bank Group Prior to Deutsche Bank, Dittman was He started his career practicing debarments and sanctions matters. a vice president and associate general commercial real estate and con- counsel at and an Before joining IFC, Diez-Suarez worked struction law at a boutique frm in executive director at Morgan Stanley. as Compliance specialist for the Charlotte, North Carolina. He holds She began her career as an associate Inter-American Development Bank, graduate degrees in law from Wake at Shearman & Sterling, where she where among other things, he was Forest University School of Law and concentrated primarily on project responsible for developing AML/CFT in design from Harvard University and structured fnance. She holds a policies and for assessing the AML/ Graduate School of Design, and a BA in journalism and politics from CFT controls of fnancial institution bachelor of arts from UNC-Chapel Hill. New York University and a JD from clients. Prior to that, he worked as New York University School of Law. general counsel for a private equity frm and spent fve years in China as a lawyer advising multi-national com- panies in cross-border transactions.

He holds law degrees from University of Oviedo (Spain) and Columbia University and is admitted to the prac- tice of law in New York and in Spain.

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Sarah Dobson Timothy W. Docking Robert Esposito Executive Director, ESELA Managing Director, Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Sarah Dobson is the executive direc- Refugee Investment Network Wharton & Garrison tor of ESELA – The Legal Network Tim Docking is managing director for Rob Esposito is a private funds asso- for Social Impact, a global network the Refugee Investment Network (RIN), ciate in the New York offce of Paul, of lawyers, advisors, academics, and the frst impact investing and blend- Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He businesses working to create a sus- ed-fnance collaborative dedicated counsels private equity fund clients and tainable economy that promotes to creating long-term solutions to their portfolio companies in connec- positive social impact. She is also global forced migration. He is based in tion with responsible investing (RI) and the part-time Impact Economy man- Washington, DC, and has 20 years of environmental, social, and governance ager at Bates Wells, the frst and only private and public sector experience. (ESG) issues relating to fund formation UK law frm to become a B Corp. and fundraising, side letter negotiation, As an intrapreneur, he worked at the RI policies and procedures, ESG due Dobson holds qualifcations in Law intersection of business, technol- diligence, ESG reporting to limited and English and was called to the ogy, and international development partners, and ESG regulatory matters. Bar of England and Wales. She has building a $100M revenue stream a background working for justice at IBM; as a public sector executive, Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Esposito charities as head of Trusts for the he helped start up the Millennium was an M&A and private funds attor- Personal Support Unit and Trusts Challenge Corporation (US government ney in the New York offces of two manager for African Prisons Project. agency); and as a scholar, he directed international law frms. Previously, Africa research at a DC think tank. he served as a Jacobson Fellow in She is a Fellow of On Purpose, the Law & Social Enterprise at New York proft with purpose leadership pro- Docking has testifed before Congress, University School of Law, where he gram, through which she worked at published and commented widely in co-created the Social Enterprise Big Society Capital—the UK’s social the media, is a member of multiple Law Tracker and published scholar- investment wholesaler—on the estab- national and international boards and ship focused on social enterprise law lishment of a CDFI investment facility, has helped form and implement policy and impact investing. His work has assessment of a venture capital fund at the highest levels of government been published in the NYU Journal proposition, and engagement with as a White House Fellow. He holds of Law and Business, the William & local government pension schemes. a PhD in comparative politics from Mary Business Law Review, and the She also worked directly with inter- Boston University and has lived and Stanford Social Innovation Review. He mediaries to support their organiza- worked in more than 40 countries. is a professional lecturer in law on the tional development and resilience. adjunct faculty at George Washington Dobson is chair of trustees of KDC University Law School and is a frequent Theatre, a central London arts charity. speaker on ESG, sustainability, impact investing, and social enterprise topics.

Esposito received his LLM, with highest honors, from George Washington University Law School, his JD from Wake Forest University School of Law, and his BA from Dartmouth College.

14 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Jason R. Factor Anne Field Elizabeth Fine Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Journalist, Forbes General Counsel and Steen & Hamilton Anne Field is an award-winning Executive Vice President, Jason R. Factor is a partner at Cleary business journalist, writer, and editor Empire State Development Gottlieb. His practice focuses on tax who focuses on entrepreneurship, Elizabeth Fine is general counsel and matters. He has signifcant experience social enterprise, and impact invest- executive vice president of Empire with private equity and hedge funds, ing. Field’s work has been published State Development. She is chief legal partnership and compensation issues, in Crain’s New York Business, CNBC. offcer of New York State’s economic joint venture arrangements, domes- com, Locavesting, the New York development agency, with $11 billion tic and international acquisitions and Times, and many other places. Her in infrastructure and business projects, divestitures, private clients’ tax work, blog Not Only for Proft, which annual bonding issuances of $2 billion, real estate, and fnancing transactions. covers social entrepreneurship and and public private partnerships with Select notable clients include General impact investing, appears in Forbes. businesses throughout the state. Fine Mills, The Home Depot, Honeywell, previously served as general counsel to Field also has a deep background International Flavors and Fragrances, the New York City Council from 2006 writing about fnancial services, supply The Raine Group, Samsonite, TPG Sixth to 2014, responsible for all aspects of chain issues, and management. And Street Partners, Warburg Pincus, and legal representation for the Council she taps her long career covering Western Digital, among others. He has and its members. Her career has business to produce content for published several articles on issues included seven years as a senior US consulting frms, foundations, non- related to taxation and employment Department of Justice offcial, ser- profts, and other organizations. compensation, and he leads the frm’s vice as special White House counsel efforts with respect to tax analysis Before starting work as a freelancer, to President Clinton, counsel to the arising from the Opportunity Zones Field was on the staff of such publi- Judiciary Committee of the US House program. Factor has been recognized cations as Business Week, Business of Representatives, and counsel to the as a leading tax advisor by Chambers Month, and Success. She is the winner Spence Chapin adoption agency. She Global, Chambers USA, Law360, of many awards, including the Jesse is a graduate of Brown University and The Legal 500 U.S., Tax Directors H. Neal Award for Best How-To Article New York University School of Law and Handbook, Turnarounds and Workouts, and the American Society of Business completed a teaching fellowship at and Who’s Who Legal. He joined Publication Editors Award for Best Georgetown University Law Center. Cleary in 1997 and became a partner Case Study. She was also featured in 2005. Factor earned a JD, magna in the Denver Business Journal’s cum laude, from the University of 2018 Who’s Who in Impact Investing Michigan Law School and a BA, magna special issue. Field attended the cum laude, from Harvard College. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Wesleyan University. She lives in New Rochelle, New York.

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Adjudicator, the Council for Medical Schemes, the Competition Commission, the Board Appeal Board, the Equality Court, and the High Court. He supervises due dili- Gary Ford Kate Geder gences on these matters and advises on various transactions involving President and Chief Executive Assistant General Counsel, pension and medical benefts transfers. Offcer, MCE Social Capital Overseas Private Investment Gary Ford currently serves as presi- Corporation (OPIC) Geral has BA and LLB degrees from the dent and CEO of MCE Social Capital, Katherine (Kate) Geder is an assistant University of Cape Town. He holds a a nonproft impact investment frm general counsel for the Overseas certifcate in Impact Investing in Africa that uses philanthropic guarantees Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). from the University of Cape Town to mobilize capital and generate At OPIC, she has worked on several and is a leading attorney in relation economic opportunities for people transactions with blended fnance to impact investing, social impact throughout the developing world. He structures in the renewable energy and bonds, and environmental, social, and is an attorney, executive, and impact water and sanitation sectors. Before governance related (ESG) investing in investor who focuses on market-driven OPIC, Geder was a project fnance South Africa. He is a CEDR Accredited approaches to help people lift them- lawyer for Chadbourne & Parke (now Commercial Mediator and a notary. selves out of poverty. Since 2006, MCE Norton Rose Fulbright), where she Some of Geral’s recent, notable has made over $187 million in loans to represented primarily development matters include advising one of South microfnance institutions and small and fnance institutions, and Cooley, Africa’s largest adminis- growing businesses to promote fnan- where she represented primarily trators in relation to an industry-wide cial inclusion, stimulate job creation, sponsors of US energy projects. She Financial Services Board inspection and provide people living in poverty, is a graduate of Washington and into alleged irregular pension fund particularly women, access to micro- Lee University and Washington and deregistrations; representing Transnet credit, savings, health care, insurance, Lee University School of Law. (the South African State Rail Utility) in education, and other services. Ford has defense of the country’s frst pensioner been an MCE guarantor since 2007. class action; performing a benefts He has served as ERISA counsel to due diligence and providing advisory the Senate Committee on Labor and services, compliance, and regulatory Human Resources, general counsel to advice on the Alexander Forbes Group the federal Pension Beneft Guaranty private equity exit and listing; and per- Corporation, and managing principal of David Geral forming a benefts due diligence and Groom Law Group in Washington, DC. Partner and Head of providing advisory services regarding Banking and Financial Services Marriott Hotels’ acquisition of Protea Ford also serves as a member of the Regulatory, Bowmans Hotels’ administration business in 2013. executive committee of the board of David Geral is a partner in Bowmans’ the Synergos Institute. He is a member Chambers and Partners 2019 ranked Banking and Finance Department, of the Global Philanthropists Circle and Geral as a Recognised Practitioner and is the head of Bowmans’ Banking the Investment Advisory Committee for Insurance. He was also ranked and Financial Services Regulatory for the Sarona Frontier Markets Fund. in Band 3 by Chambers and Practice. He specializes in pensions, He lives with his wife, Nancy Ebb, in Partners for his work in Fintech. health care, group insurances, and Bethesda, Maryland, within hailing equity-linked incentive schemes. He distance of their sons, Mike and Dan. advises local corporations, private and industry retirement funds, and medical schemes and their service providers on governance, contracting, compli- ance, and dispute resolution, as well as on matters before the Pension Funds

16 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Community Economic Development Giovine is a tutor of the Human Committee and former Governing Rights and Migration Law Clinic at the Committee member of the ABA University of Turin, and he collaborates Forum on Affordable Housing & with Politecnico of Milan support- Community Development Law. She ing research and projects focused Dorcas R. Gilmore is the co-editor of the ABA publica- on social innovation carried out by tion Building Community Resilience Tiresia International Research Centre. Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Post-Disaster: A Guide for Affordable University of Maryland Carey Housing & Community Economic School of Law; Principal, Development Practitioners and a Gilmore Khandhar forthcoming book, Investing for Dorcas R. Gilmore is a principal of Social and Economic Impact: A Guide Gilmore Khandhar, LLC, a solidarity for Lawyers and Practitioners. economies law frm, representing social enterprises, businesses, and nonproft Nicholas Glicher organizations at startup and growth Chief Operating Offcer, phases. She is also the director of the Thomson Reuters Foundation Small Business & Community Equity Nick Glicher is chief operating offcer Development Clinic at the University of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. of Maryland Carey School of Law. She During his time at the foundation, was a visiting associate professor in the Emiliano Giovine he has been director of TrustLaw, Small Business & Community Economic Associate, R&P Legal Associato the world’s largest legal pro bono Development Law Clinic at George Emiliano Giovine is an Italian lawyer service, and also spent three years Washington University Law School operating mainly in corporate law and based in Johannesburg, where he and practitioner in residence in the social business, with several years of was head of African Programmes. Community Development Law Clinic international experience working as a Glicher has a special focus on social at American University Washington UN consultant at the United Nations innovation and the social economy and College of Law. Before clinical law Environment Programme (UNEP) and designed and leads the foundation’s teaching, Gilmore was an assistant as legal offcer at the Joint Research Social Enterprise and Impact Investing general counsel for the NAACP Centre of the European Commission. legal training courses. He also leads the representing the national offce and He holds a master’s degree in foundation’s work on slavery in supply its over 1,000 local and state affliates environmental law and manage- chains, looking after the Stop Slavery as in-house corporate counsel and ment from Ca’ Foscari University Awards and developing other tools advocacy counsel focused on economic in Venice and is a PhD candidate in designed to help promote transpar- and environmental justice. Gilmore international public law at Utrecht ency in supply chains and operations. began her legal career as a Skadden University, focusing mainly on Fellow and staff attorney at the Glicher is a Fellow of the Royal Society human rights and migration law. Community Law Center, Inc. creating of Arts and a non-executive director of the Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative Giovine gained experience and TSIP, the Social Innovation Consultancy. to provide business legal services to competences in the EU projects He sits on the board of Impact Terms youth-led businesses, organizations, sector managing the legal section Project, as well as a number of other and social ventures and the Equitable of various multidisciplinary partner- advisory boards and steering commit- Development Project to assist commu- ships within EU-funded projects and tees in the impact economy. Prior to nities in developing and negotiating currently assists nonproft entities, joining the foundation, he worked as a community benefts agreements. social entrepreneurs, and impact lawyer specializing in fnance and bank- investors on a national and interna- ing law in the London and Chicago Gilmore is a 2012-2013 Wasserstein tional scale. He is involved in differ- offces of Mayer Brown. He also worked Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law ent impact investing projects also in the Debt Capital Markets division at School and 2013 American Express related to integration and assistance the Royal Bank of Scotland, focusing NGen Fellow. She is the chair of of asylum seekers and refugees. on emerging market transactions. the ABA Business Law Section’s

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Steven Godeke Neil Golden Jay Grunin Founder and Principal, Partner, Orrick, Co-Founder and Chairman, Godeke Consulting Herrington & Sutcliffe Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation Through his independent consulting Neil Golden has more than four In 1964, Jay Grunin graduated, with practice, Steve Godeke connects decades of experience representing honors, from Brooklyn College. He families, foundations, and funds to the energy clients in complex equity and knew he wanted to be a lawyer right impact investing partners and debt fnancings, project acquisitions from the time he was 12 years old resources. Godeke Consulting leads and divestitures, and other signifcant (medicine was also an option, but independent advisor searches for corporate transactions. He has rep- he was disabused of that career asset owners and works with invest- resented major project developers, track when he was too squeamish ment managers and funds to deepen equity investors, and lenders in the to dissect a frog in high school). the environmental and social impact independent energy industry, in the At New York University School of of their offerings. Prior to establish- United States and internationally. Law, Grunin was an editor of the ing his own frm, Godeke worked In recent years, Golden has worked NYU Law Review and was selected for 12 years in corporate and project extensively on the development and as a John Norton Pomeroy Scholar. fnance with Deutsche Bank, where he fnancing of renewable energy proj- structured debt and equity products After his second year of law school, he ects involving wind, solar, biomass, and advised corporate clients in the worked for the summer at a major Wall and fuel cells, and on alternative natural resources, telecommunications, Street law frm. Upon graduation, and fuels projects in the ethanol indus- media, and real estate industries. while awaiting his call to military basic try. He has also worked extensively training, he served as an assistant to an Godeke is board chair and a mem- on the development and fnancing NYU Law professor who was teaching a ber of the Finance Committee of the of conventional power generation seminar on legislative history. Returning Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, a $60 facilities. His corporate and fnancing from active duty, Grunin worked for million private foundation with a long experience has included represen- a large midtown Manhattan law frm history of integrating its investments tation of clients in syndicated bank and then accepted an Appellate and social justice mission. He is also fnancings, fnancings by multilateral Division clerkship in New Jersey. an adjunct professor of fnance at and bilateral agencies, Rule 144A debt New York University’s Stern School of offerings, sale-leaseback fnancings, Finally, he took the advice of his NYU Business, where he teaches investing construction loans, formation of joint Law classmate and bride-to-be, Linda, for environmental and social impact ventures and partnerships, equity and settled down in Toms River, a and impact investing in family offces. investments, and the purchase and then-small town in Ocean County sale of equity interests in projects. on the Jersey Shore. Jay and Linda Godeke grew up on a family farm in Grunin practiced law together until Southern Indiana and attended Purdue Internationally, Golden has repre- the early 1990s, expanding their University, where he received a BS in sented sponsors of power projects interests to include real estate and management and a BA in German. and electric distribution companies other investments. Thereafter, they He studied as a Fulbright Scholar at in a number of countries, including devoted their full time and attention the University of Cologne and earned Brazil, Argentina, Jamaica, Honduras, to their two greatest passions, their an MPA from Harvard University. Bangladesh, Nepal, Colombia, business investments and philan- Turkey, the Dominican Republic, and thropy. In 2013, they restructured their the People’s Republic of China. philanthropic endeavors by forming the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation.

18 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond he provided strategic guidance to managers in launching and scaling their businesses. Previously, he practiced as a private fund lawyer in New York at Willkie Farr & Gallagher John W. Haines and served as in-house counsel at Joan MacLeod Highbridge Capital Management, LLC. Director, MercyCorps Heminway Community Professor of Law, The University John Haines has been the executive of Tennessee College of Law director of the Community Investment Joan MacLeod Heminway is the Rick Trust with Mercy Corps Global Rose Distinguished Professor of Law Innovations Team since February 2018. at The University of Tennessee (UT) Previously, he was executive director of College of Law in Knoxville and a Mercy Corps Northwest, the domestic Christopher P. Healey Fellow of UT-Knoxville’s Center for arm of Mercy Corps, for 15 years. From Associate, Simpson Corporate Governance and Center 1997 to 2002, he was vice president of Thacher & Bartlett for the Study of Social Justice. When ShoreBank Pacifc, a startup sustainable Christopher Healey is a senior asso- she joined the UT College of Law development bank in Portland, Oregon. ciate in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s faculty in 2000, Professor Heminway From 1996 to 1997 he was senior Registered Funds group. His practice had completed nearly 15 years of fnance advisor to the Czech National focuses on matters related to business corporate transactional law practice Environmental Fund in Prague, working development companies, registered (public offerings, private placements, for Chemonics. From 1994 to 1995 funds, investment advisors, fund mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and he was executive director of Trenton boards, and asset management M&A restructurings) in the Boston offce Business Assistance Corporation, an transactions. His practice includes coun- of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & economic development loan fund seling clients on novel SEC regulatory Flom. Professor Heminway’s scholar- in Trenton, New Jersey. From 1986 issues, including co-investment, invest- ship focuses on securities disclosure to 1991, he worked in various corpo- ment company status, and other types law and policy (especially under Rule rate banking and commercial lending of exemptive relief. Healey is co-chair 10b-5) and business governance and positions with First Interstate Bank of of the Investment Management and fnance issues (including as they relate Oregon (now Wells Fargo Bank). He is a Broker-Dealer Regulation Committee to crowdfunding and entrepreneurship) graduate of the University of Wyoming of the Bar Association of the District under federal and state law. She is an and a native of Laramie, Wyoming. of Columbia and has co-authored elected member of the American Law numerous articles in industry publica- Institute and is admitted to practice in tions, including the Investment Lawyer, Tennessee (2000) and Massachusetts BoardIQ, Fund Directions, and Fund (1985, inactive). Her academic work has Board Views. Additionally, he is a key been published in a variety of books contributor to Simpson Thacher’s and law reviews, and she is a co-ed- quarterly Registered Funds Alert. itor of the Business Law Prof Blog. John Hamilton Healey received his JD from George Counsel, Stradley Ronon Washington University Law School, Stevens & Young where he was an executive editor for John Hamilton is counsel in the the George Washington Law Review, Investment Management department served as student director and Legal at Stradley Ronon, focusing on private Fellow for the Small Business and funds and sustainable investments. Community Economic Development Prior to joining Stradley, he was at Clinic, and interned for the Investment Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong as the Company Institute and the SEC. Asia head of Business Consulting in the Prime Brokerage division, where

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Earlier in her career, Henriquez-Schmitz the Board of Directors of Jacob Riis worked in private practice at two Neighborhood Settlement in Queens, leading international law frms, where New York. He also serves as a guide for she specialized in international fnance, The Resolution Project, which fosters dispute resolution, and business and social entrepreneurship on college Carolina Henriquez- human rights. She was also a legal campuses globally. He has served Schmitz expert for the ABA Center for Human on the CAIA Association’s New York Rights and previously worked as a Chapter Committee and as a judge Executive Director, Grunin Center Legal Fellow for the Zambian Law and mentor in social venture busi- for Law and Social Entrepreneurship, Development Commission and at ness plan competitions at NYU Stern New York University School of Law the World Bank in Latin America. and the Mentor Capital Network. Carolina Henriquez-Schmitz is the founding executive director of the She is a dual-qualifed lawyer and Hogan holds an MBA from NYU Grunin Center for Law and Social holds an LLM from Harvard Law Stern, an AB from the University of Entrepreneurship at New York School, where she studied interna- Chicago, the Chartered Alternative University School of Law. She is an tional fnance and development. She Investment Analyst designation, international attorney that has spent currently serves on the Advisory and the Sustainable Investment the better part of the past decade Board of the Impact Terms Project Professional Certifcate from Concordia working to educate and empower and on the Board of Directors of the University (Montreal). He also holds other lawyers to be proactive leaders Thomson Reuters Foundation Inc. Series 7 & 63 securities licenses. in driving social change. Henriquez- Schmitz regularly speaks on issues of access to justice, social impact and social enterprise, impact invest- ing and social fnance innovations, human traffcking and modern slav- ery, environmental laws and climate Will Hogan Rutherford Hubbard change, and innovations delivery of Impact Business Development, Legal Counsel, Dutch Development legal education and legal services. Bequia Securities, LLC and SVX US Bank (FMO) Prior to joining the Grunin Center, she Will Hogan is a builder of community Rutherford Hubbard is a legal coun- was regional lead and legal manager and collaboration in impact, focused on sel for the Netherlands Development at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, capital formation for impact businesses, Finance Company (FMO), specializing where she worked with social impact projects, and funds. Over his career, he in renewable energy project fnance partners around the world to develop has often led cross-functional project and equity investment in frontier mar- strategic resources and capacity-build- teams to originate commercial and kets. With a global portfolio of energy ing opportunities in the feld of social project fnancings and build investment projects, he has managed innovative enterprise and impact investing. In products. Recent focus impact themes debt and equity deals in Asia, Africa, that capacity, she spearheaded the include renewable energy generation Latin America, and the Middle East. development of the annual TrustLaw and storage; health and wellness; Hubbard has nearly a decade of Social Enterprise and Impact Investing inequality, diversity and inclusion; experience living and working in Training and expanded an award-win- sustainable agriculture+food; and real South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the ning pro bono service that facilitates estate. He is also focused on ways Caucasus, in both private practice free legal support for social enter- Opportunity Zone incentives may be and development policy. In addition, prises, educates lawyers to more utilized to generate positive Impact. he has served as a senior researcher effectively serve the needs of social Hogan has driven new business and technical advisor to Transparency entrepreneurs, and develops legal initiatives within and across organiza- International on corruption in the pri- research and tools that strengthen tions at frms such as Amalgamated vate sector, in Sri Lanka and Cambodia. the impact investing ecosystem. Bank, Aetos Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Ernst & Young. He serves on

20 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Hubbard holds a JD and a master’s degree in corruption in post-con- fict markets from the University of Michigan and is a recipient of the Bates Fellowship in International Law. He is also a regular guest lec- Tomer Inbar turer in international fnance law at Dan Jackson Partner, Patterson Belknap the Royal University of Cambodia. Executive Director, Tomer Inbar represents US and inter- NuLawLab–Northeastern national tax-exempt organizations University School of Law (and for-proft organizations that deal Dan Jackson directs the NuLawLab at with them) in a broad range of struc- Northeastern University School of Law, tural and operating matters, includ- an interdisciplinary innovation labo- ing tax and corporate issues, impact ratory working to merge creative arts and charitable investing, regulatory and law to create new models of legal Adam Huttler compliance, governance, operational empowerment. He is a 1997 gradu- Managing General Partner, policies and procedures, audits, unre- ate of Northeastern Law and a 1990 Exponential Creativity Ventures lated business income tax issues, and graduate of Northwestern University. Adam Huttler is the founder and man- executive compensation matters. Following a postgraduate clerkship aging general partner of Exponential Inbar regularly advises on an array of with Judge Hugh H. Bownes at the US Creativity Ventures. As a six-time corporate transactions and structures Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, founder, his career’s through-line has involving tax-exempt organizations, Jackson worked for 13 years with the been about helping mission-driven such as joint ventures and the estab- law frm of Bingham McCutchen, ulti- companies use technology to drive lishment of for-proft subsidiaries, mately serving as the frm’s director of innovative revenue strategies. corporate restructuring, private equity attorney development after practicing Huttler is best known as the founder fund formation, hybrid structures, and in the employment law group. Prior to of Fractured Atlas, a social enterprise licensing and service arrangements. law school, he worked as a designer SaaS platform that helps artists and Among his clients are public charities, for theater. He continues to do so, creative businesses thrive. During his private foundations, colleges and most recently with the Provincetown 20 years as CEO, the organization universities, environmental conserva- Tennessee Williams Theater Festival grew from a one-man-band housed in tion groups, economic development and The Provincetown Theater. an East Harlem studio apartment to organizations, advocacy groups, and a broad-based infrastructure provider museums and cultural institutions, reaching over 1.5 million artists across many of which are active worldwide. North America and distributing over Inbar is a regular speaker at programs $250 million to support their work. for tax-exempt organizations. Recent topics have focused on charitable Huttler has a BA in theater from Sarah business formation, structuring pro- Lawrence College and an MBA from gram and mission-related investments, New York University and is a self- charitable investment funds, lobbying taught software developer. He is also and political campaign activities, the an alumnus of Singularity University’s fduciary aspects of program and Executive Program and UC Berkeley’s mission-related investing, aggregat- Venture Capital Executive Program. ing capital for social good, charitable He was named to Crain’s New York issues relating to energy and the envi- Business’ 2016 “40 Under Forty” class ronment, self-dealing and conficts of and was listed by Barry’s Blog as interest, crisis management and com- one of the top 10 “Most Powerful munications, and board governance and Infuential Leaders in Nonproft considerations and liability concerns. Arts” for fve consecutive years.

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and Community Development Law, editor-in-chief and senior editor of the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, and co-chair of the Forum’s Legal Todd Johnson Susan R. Jones Educators’ Practice Division. She is a co-founder and past co-chair of the Founder and Chief Executive Professor of Clinical Law, Community Economic Development Offcer, iPar George Washington University Committee of the Section on Todd Johnson is founder and CEO of Law School Business Law, and she served on the iPar, an impact transparency platform Susan R. Jones is a professor of Business Law Education Committee, that facilitates the deployment of clinical law and a member of the full- as well as on the Commission on capital to create and encourage human time faculty at George Washington Homelessness and Poverty. fourishing. Built by a multi-family offce University Law School, where she is that deploys more than $1 billion for the director and supervising attorney Jones was a Fannie Mae Foundation impact, iPar is designed to aggre- of the Small Business & Community Fellow at the Harvard University gate, visualize, and report impact data Economic Development Clinic (SBCED Kennedy School of Government, for all types of capital deployment. Clinic). An active member of the and she is a member of Leadership District of Columbia Bar, she served as Greater Washington. She was Previously, during 29 years as a lawyer, vice-chair to the DC Bar Community awarded Washington Area Lawyers partner, and leader at Jones Day, & Economic Development Pro Bono for the Arts’ Lifetime Achievement Johnson founded and led the frm’s Project Advisory Committee. She Award for distinctive service to the Northern California presence with was a distinguished visiting profes- greater Washington, DC, creative the opening of its Silicon Valley offce sor at the University of Maryland community and for 20 years of ser- and its global Renewable Energy and School of Law and the Haywood vice on the WALA Board of Directors. Sustainability practice. At Jones Day, he Burns Visiting Chair in Civil Rights The Insight Center for Community provided social entrepreneurship and at the City University of New York Economic Development awarded her impact investing leadership dating back School of Law at Queens College. a leadership and innovation award. to 2000—counseling, advising, and representing organizations, entrepre- A former chair of the Association of She is the author of “A Legal Guide neurs, venture and private equity funds, American Law Schools (AALS) Section to Microenterprise Development” family offces, foundations, and public on Clinical Legal Education, Jones and co-editor of “Building Healthy charities seeking to address some of has held several other AALS leader- Communities: A Guide to Community the world’s most challenging problems, ship positions. She was an executive Economic Development for Advocates, in some of the world’s hardest places. committee member and chair of Lawyers and Policymakers,” both the Section on Africa, a member of published by the ABA. In addition, she In addition to his role at iPar, Johnson the Standing Committee on Clinical is co-editor of a forthcoming book, serves as board chair of Activation Legal Education, chair of the Section Investing for Social and Economic Energy, the nonproft that runs on Poverty Law, an executive com- Impact: A Guide for Lawyers and the Cyclotron Road program with mittee member of the Section on Practitioners, scheduled for pub- the Lawrence Berkeley National Transactional Law and Skills, and lication by the ABA in 2019. Laboratory and the US Department of co-chair of the Transactional Clinics Energy, providing acceleration tools Jones’ scholarly interests include Committee of the Clinical Section. and commercialization on-ramps for transactional law and practice, small climate and energy research being In addition to her work with the and microbusiness development, conducted by the best and brightest AALS, Jones has also been a leader social entrepreneurship, the creative graduate students in the United States. in the American Bar Association economy, the platform economy, (ABA), serving as vice-chair of international/comparative community the Economic Justice Committee, economic development, local economic Section of Civil Rights and Social development, nonproft organizations, Justice, on the governing commit- charitable giving, minority entrepre- tee of Forum on Affordable Housing neurship, and social impact investing.

22 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond He holds Series 62, 24 and 63 Licenses with NASD and is law-li- censed in California and Illinois. He has also been a regular con- tributor to the Huffngton Post. John Katovich Kate Kilberg Founder and President, Partner, Catalyst Law Cutting Edge Counsel Kate Kilberg is a partner at Catalyst John Katovich founded Oakland, Law, LLC. Her practice focuses on CA-based Cutting Edge Capital and complex estate planning and admin- Cutting Edge Counsel and co-founded istration, philanthropy, nonproft and SVX US, all committed to economic Jeremy Keele tax-exempt organizations, social justice and democratic capitalism, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, enterprise, and impact investing. fostering responsible and sustain- Catalyst Opportunity Funds Kilberg has experience represent- able capital-raising strategies and Jeremy Keele is co-founder and man- ing tax-exempt organizations, both operational practices. Cutting Edge aging partner of Catalyst Opportunity large and small, including public Capital is the leading provider of direct Funds, a double bottom-line invest- charities, private foundations, com- public offerings, raising community ment frm focused on leveraging the munity foundations, and social wel- funds from all kinds of investors. Opportunity Zone incentive to max- fare organizations. She has advised imize fnancial returns for investors Katovich held general counsel and tax-exempt organizations in a wide and positive impacts for communities. chief regulatory offcer positions for variety of contexts, such as qualifca- Keele is a recognized national leader in Pacifc Stock Exchange, Boston Stock tion for tax-exempt status, corporate impact investing and the Opportunity Exchange, and NASDAQ. He’s also governance, political and lobbying Zone program and brings a diverse a principal of Bequia Securities, a activities, grantmaking, excise taxes, range of cross-sector professional broker dealer focused on providing unrelated business income tax, joint experiences in government, law, busi- impact capital to socially responsible ventures and for-proft subsidiar- ness, and academia. Prior to co-found- businesses. He was general counsel ies, social enterprise, mission- and ing Catalyst, Keele was president and for OptiMark Technologies, which program-related investments, and CEO of the Sorenson Impact Center, revolutionized computer-based other impact investing vehicles. a prominent think tank focused on trading of institutional and large social impact and innovation. Prior to Kilberg is a member of the Estate block orders, and general counsel Sorenson, Jeremy was senior advisor to Planning Council of Portland and of ePit, providing enterprise-class the mayor of his hometown, Salt Lake former president of the Oregon State software for markets world-wide. City. Before that, he was a corporate Bar Nonproft Law Section. A grad- Katovich is a founding board mem- attorney with the law frms of Latham uate of Harvard Law School and the ber of SASB (Sustainable Accounting & Watkins and Cleary Gottlieb in University of Michigan, Kate is licensed Standards Board) and The Food New York, London, and . to practice law in Oregon, Washington, Commons, a nonproft that shep- Keele received BS/BA degrees from and the District of Columbia. herds an integrated system for Brigham Young University (2001), a community-owned and operated JD from New York University School enterprises scaling local food acces- of Law (2006), and a master’s degree sibility. He taught capital markets in public administration from Harvard at Presidio Graduate School’s MBA (2006). He is married with four boys. program and options trading at UC Berkeley and INSEAD, France.

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sustainable agriculture/aquaculture and food ventures, social enterprise, and impact investment. He previously practiced law at BCK Law, PC and Goodwin Procter and clerked for the Christopher Kip US Court of Appeals for the First Christina Koulias Circuit. He holds a BA from Columbia Child Rights and Business Specialist, Senior Manager, Global Governance, College, an MPP from the Harvard UNICEF United Nations Global Compact Kennedy School, and a JD from Chris Kip works in UNICEF’s Child Christina Koulias serves as senior man- Northeastern University School of Law. Rights and Business Team, engaging ager, Global Governance at the United business on their impact on children in Nations Global Compact (“UN Global the workplace and community. Based Compact”), which is the world’s largest in Geneva, he leads work with interna- corporate sustainability initiative. As tional brands, fnancial investors, and part of her portfolio, Koulias leads the sustainability platforms to improve UN Global Compact’s work on global child rights in global supply chains. governance, including the recently He manages the Network on Child Tatyana Levina Kleyman launched Action Platform on Peace, Rights in the Garment & Footwear Counsel, Jane Street Justice and Strong Institutions (Goal 16 Sector—a joint initiative with Norges Tatyana Levina Kleyman is on the of the Sustainable Development Goals). Bank Investment Management (NBIM). board of Impact Capital Forum, whose Prior to joining the UN Global Before joining UNICEF, he worked as mission is to advance the impact Compact, Koulias worked at one of a consultant supporting companies investing and social enterprise sectors Australia’s top-tier law frms and served to integrate human rights due dili- by providing a platform for innovation, as senior associate to the Honourable gence into corporate sustainability collaboration, and thought leadership. Justice Almond at the Supreme Court strategies and activities. He holds an She is also an attorney at Jane Street, of Victoria. She also has over 12 years MA in political science and an LLM a quantitative trading frm. Previously, of commercial experience at one of in international human rights law. she was vice president and counsel Australia’s largest banks, where she in the Global Markets division of BNP served in operational risk and com- Paribas, where she was on the bank’s pliance, among other disciplines. She Microfnance Business Networking earned her LLM/JD) from Monash Group Executive Committee and the University in 2010 and BBA from the Legal Department’s inaugural Pro University of South Australia in 2002. Bono Committee. She started her Jonathan Klavens legal career in the Finance group of Fried Frank, an international law frm. Principal, Klavens Law Group, PC Kleyman has been a business mentor Drawing on a diverse background in through the Cherie Blair Foundation general corporate, securities, proj- for Women, a board member of Global ect development and fnance, fund Youth Connect, and a volunteer with formation, energy transactional, nonprofts in New York, Tanzania, Andrew Lee energy regulatory, environmental, and Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Managing Director, Deputy Global nonproft matters, Jonathan Klavens She holds a BA from the University Head—CIO UHNW and Alternatives, founded Klavens Law Group, PC in of Pennsylvania, a JD from New Sustainable and Impact Investing, 2007 to help enable innovative ven- York University School of Law, and a UBS AG tures that have positive environmental Certifcate in Global Affairs from NYU. Andrew Lee joined UBS Global Wealth or other social impact. His practice Management’s Chief Investment focuses on meeting the diverse legal Offce in July 2012 and currently needs of companies, investors, public serves as Head of Sustainable and entities, and nonprofts in the areas Impact Investing, supporting clients of clean energy/clean technology,

24 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond with investment advice, strategy, and Institution and the Association of thought leadership in these areas. Asian American Investment Managers. Prior to this, he was deputy global She is a senior advisor to ISQ Capital, head of the CIO Ultra High Net Worth/ a $13 billion global infrastructure Alternatives/Sustainable and Impact fund, and an advisor to the National Investing group, with specifc respon- Academies of Science Innovation Panel. Ann M. Lipton sibility for the Impact Investing and Michael Fleishman Associate Private Markets teams. He is a man- Professor in Corporate Law & aging director based in New York. Entrepreneurship, Tulane Law School Prior to joining CIO GWM, Lee was Ann Lipton is an experienced securi- managing director overseeing invest- ties and corporate litigator who has ments for a private New York-based handled class actions involving some single family offce. In this capacity, he Aaron Lewis of the world’s largest companies. She was responsible for managing asset Deputy General Counsel, joined the Tulane Law faculty in 2015 allocation, theme development, due Habitat for Humanity International after two years as a visiting assistant diligence, and execution of all direct Aaron Lewis currently serves as deputy professor at Duke University School and indirect investments for the general counsel-international for of Law, where she taught securities family investment vehicles. Previously, Habitat for Humanity International, Inc., litigation and a seminar on the fnancial he was part of a long/short equity where he has worked for 21 years. He crisis. In 2016, she was named Tulane’s hedge fund team at Deutsche Asset began work with Habitat supporting its frst Michael Fleishman Professor in Management. Before that, he worked FlexCAP private placement bond issu- Corporate Law & Entrepreneurship. at in the banking (M&A) and ance, as well as compliance and regu- Lipton clerked for US Supreme Court real estate private equity groups. Lee latory issues for Habitat’s US affliates. Justice David Souter and 3rd US Circuit has an MBA from the Wharton School In performing in-house counsel work Court of Appeals Judge Edward Becker and an AB from Harvard College. for a public charity, Lewis gained before handling securities and corpo- considerable experience in 501(c)(3) rate litigation at the trial and appel- tax-exempt legal matters. He then late levels at law frms in New York expanded his practice to international City. She also worked briefy for the compliance and governance, including Securities and Exchange Commission. the structuring of affliation agreements As a scholar, Lipton explores corpo- and global implementation of code rate functioning and the relationships Ginger Lew of conduct and ethics requirements between corporations and investors. Managing Director, for Habitat’s national organizations. She has articles in the Georgetown Cube Hydro Partners In the context of impact investing, Law Journal, Washington University Ginger Lew is co-founder and manag- Lewis provides support for Habitat’s Law Review, and the Duke Journal ing director of Cube Hydro Partners, Terwilliger Center, which includes of Constitutional Law & Public a clean energy company based in both the MicroBuild Fund, a $100 Policy. She also blogs regularly Bethesda, Maryland. After raising more million international housing micro-f- for the Business Law Prof Blog. than $500 million, the company grew nance facility funded by US gov- from fve people to more than 110 ernment debt fnancing and equity employees, with 19 facilities in fve participants, and the Shelter Venture states providing enough clean energy Fund, which provides fnancing to to power 146,837 homes. Prior to early-stage impact entrepreneurs joining the company, Lew was a senior aligned with Habitat’s affordable advisor to President Obama’s White housing mission. Lewis earned his BA House National Economic Council for from the University of Michigan and three years. She has served on the JD from the University of Georgia. boards of public, private, and not- for-proft companies. Currently, she is on the boards of the Smithsonian

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to joining GIF, she worked at FMO, a Dutch development bank in The Netherlands, where she managed the legal aspects of their renewable energy and infrastructure transactions. She Emmeline Liu has also worked at Clifford Chance Anthony (Tony) Luppino in Hong Kong, Baker & McKenzie in General Counsel, Rubey M. Hulen Professor of Law Singapore, and SyCip Salazar in Manila. Calvert Impact Capital and Director of Entrepreneurship She holds an LLM from Columbia Emmeline Liu is the general counsel Programs, University of Missouri- University School of Law and a JD of Calvert Impact Capital. Liu ensures Kansas City School of Law from the University of the Philippines. that Calvert Impact Capital acts in Tony Luppino is a professor and accordance with its mission and all director of Entrepreneurship Programs applicable laws. She manages Calvert at the University of Missouri-Kansas Impact Capital’s legal affairs, includ- City School of Law, as well as a Senior ing relevant organizational strategy, Fellow with the Regnier Institute for corporate governance, investments, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Community Investment Note, UMKC. In 2017, Professor Luppino and management of outside counsel. Catrina Luchsinger was named the recipient of the Her goal is to protect Calvert Impact Gähwiler University of Missouri System’s inau- Capital, while enabling it to innovate. Partner, Froriep gural Entrepreneurship Educator of Catrina Luchsinger Gähwiler is a the Year Award. He teaches business, Prior to joining Calvert Impact Capital, partner in the Swiss law frm Froriep, tax, and entrepreneurship courses, Liu practiced in the Business and based in the Zurich offce. She advises including interdisciplinary courses Finance group at Morgan, Lewis & on regulatory issues and contrac- in for-proft, social, and civic entre- Bockius’ New York offce. She was tual aspects relating to the fnan- preneurship. His scholarship focuses actively involved in pro bono mat- cial market industry and has broad primarily on legal and policy issues ters and diversity initiatives. She experience across acquisition and signifcantly affecting entrepreneurs, received her JD from the University project-fnancing transactions, gen- and on entrepreneurship education. of Chicago Law School and her eral corporate work, and M&A. Since BA from Cornell University. Professor Luppino was the prin- 2016, she has also been working on cipal organizer of the Law & Fintech projects and has been advis- Entrepreneurship Special Interest ing clients on Swiss law aspects of Group of the United States blockchain projects. Froriep is advisor Association for Small Business and to the Swiss Blockchain Association Entrepreneurship (USASBE). He and to the Global Blockchain has also served for several years as Business Council, and Luchsinger lead editor of the Entrepreneurship Ginny Reyes Llamzon was a member of the Federal task Law website powered by the Ewing Senior Legal Counsel, force for blockchain technology. Marion Kauffman Foundation and is Global Innovation Fund a frequent speaker at conferences Ginny Reyes Llamzon is senior legal and workshops on subjects at inter- counsel at GIF and provides deal and sections of law and entrepreneurship. regulatory advice in connection with Among his activities in social entre- GIF’s grant and risk capital portfolio. preneurship, along with John Tyler, She is an international fnance lawyer Evan Absher, and Kathleen Garman, who has worked in frontier markets he co-authored an article published for over 15 years and has assisted in in 2015 in the Quinnipiac Law Review structuring and executing a wide range entitled “Producing Better Mileage: of fnancial products in diverse legal Advancing the Design and Usefulness and regulatory environments. Prior of Hybrid Vehicles for Social Business

26 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Ventures.” Professor Luppino earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, his JD from Stanford Law School, and an LLM in taxation from Boston University School of Law. Christopher J. Meade James A. Mercadante General Counsel and Partner, Reed Smith Chief Legal Offcer, BlackRock Jim Mercadante joined Reed Smith in Christopher J. Meade is the general 2013 as a partner in the Corporate & counsel and chief legal offcer of Securities Group. His practice focuses BlackRock, the world’s largest asset primarily on the capital raising and Catherine Lyons manager. A member of the Global transactional activities of private Manager for Policy and Coalitions, Executive Committee, he leads the equity frms and private companies. Economic Innovation Group (EIG) Legal & Compliance group, consist- He has represented fund sponsors in Catherine Lyons is EIG’s manager of ing of more than 450 professionals forming a broad variety of onshore Policy and Coalitions. Before joining in over 20 countries. Before joining and offshore private equity funds, EIG, she was Southern California BlackRock, Meade was the general including buyout funds, growth equity director for FWD.us, a bipartisan counsel of the US Department of the funds, distressed debt and other advocacy organization focused on Treasury. At Treasury, he provided asset-focused funds, real estate funds, immigration reform. Prior to that, legal and policy counseling to the mezzanine funds, and funds-of-funds. she led the housing and community Treasury secretary and other senior He also has extensive experience in development policy work for the Bay Treasury offcials on a wide range of restructuring transactions for both Area Council in the San Francisco Bay issues relating to domestic fnance, hedge and private equity funds. Area. Lyons served as an AmeriCorps international economic affairs, terror- Mercadante has regularly represented member in New Orleans after grad- ism fnance, fnancial crimes enforce- private equity frms and their portfolio uating magna cum laude from the ment, and tax policy. He received companies in acquisitions, dispositions, University of Southern California with the Alexander Hamilton Award, the and fnancings, as well as strategic a dual degree in print journalism and Treasury Department’s highest honor. investors and management groups par- international relations. She recently Before joining Treasury, Meade was ticipating in private M&A transactions. received her master’s degree in public a partner with the law frm of Wilmer policy from Georgetown University’s Many of his matters since 2008 have Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where McCourt School of Public Policy, involved impact investing projects, and he was a member of the Litigation during which study she interned at the he is one of the leading practitioners in and Securities Departments, as well DC Department of Small and Local the area of forming pooled investment as the Appellate and Supreme Court Business Development and the US vehicles for impact asset managers. He Litigation Group. During this time, Senate Committee on the Budget. has worked (or is currently working) for he argued four cases before the US fund sponsors focused on strategies to Supreme Court. Earlier in his career, he promote FinTech, microfnance, agricul- served as a law clerk to Justice John ture, and women’s health and has also Paul Stevens on the US Supreme Court represented investors in impact funds. and Judge Harry T. Edwards of the US He has also worked on portfolio com- Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. pany investments and restructurings, Meade received his AB, magna cum including with respect to a Mexico- laude, from Princeton University and based FinTech company, a manufac- his JD, magna cum laude, from New turer of portable solar lighting in India, York University School of Law, where he and an Indian microfnance company. was editor-in-chief of the Law Review.

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Impact Frederick Douglass Award: Male Champion of Global Women’s Equality; and IGD Frontier 100 Leader.

Christopher Michael Vincent Molinari Director of Employee Ownership, Co-Founder, Templum Inc. Newark Community Economic Vincent Molinari is the co-founder of Development Corporation; Attorney, Templum Inc. and the CEO of its sub- Christopher Michael P.C. sidiary, Templum Markets, a FINRA reg- José Ignacio Morejon Chris Michael operates a boutique law istered broker dealer and Alternative Executive Director, frm focusing on employee ownership Trading System (ATS) providing a Sistema B Ecuador trusts. He is responsible for developing registered solution for raising capital José Morejon is an attorney in Ecuador the perpetual purpose trust as a new and trading private digital securities. and founder of Sistema B Ecuador, part legal mechanism for employee owner- of the Latin American organization Molinari has nearly 30 years of experi- ship in the United States and has pub- Sistema B Internacional, a nonproft ence in the fnancial services industry. lished articles introducing the concept that serves a global movement of Throughout his career, he has been in leading peer-reviewed law journals, people using business as a force for a true entrepreneur, founding and including Tax Notes and Probate & good. Before co-founding Sistema B leading multiple companies committed Property. In addition to working with Ecuador, Morejon designed a capac- to advancing market infrastructure, businesses to implement employee or ity-building program for the enforce- capital formation, impact investing, steward ownership, Michael consults ment of the rights of nature in the and digital assets. He has participated with existing ESOP companies on Galapagos Islands. Later he joined in the development of blockchain transitioning to an employee owner- Pérez Bustamante y Ponce, the largest patents, is a creator of thought-leading ship trust or perpetual purpose trust. corporate law frm in Ecuador. He then technology solutions, and hosts the Outside of his law practice, he serves joined the Yasuni-ITT Initiative team, a Templum Digital Asset Report, which as director of employee ownership scheme that created an alternative car- brings visibility and education to mar- at the Newark Community Economic bon market that was based on avoided ket innovation and its global impact. Development Corporation and is a emission to protect biodiversity Louis O. Kelso Fellow at the Rutgers Beyond leading the way toward a more hotspots sitting on large oil reserves. School of Management and Labor effective and effcient private market, After completing his MBA at EAE Relations. He is a frequent author and Molinari is passionately and deeply Business School and Lubin School speaker on employee ownership and is committed to impact investing and of Business, Morejon co-founded active in legislative campaigns support- humanitarian issues, which he believes Sistema B Ecuador, helping the B ing employee ownership. blockchain technologies can signif- Corp movement scale with an eco- cantly help address. Therefore, he has systemic approach, working along co-founded Blockchain Commission for with policymakers, governments, Sustainable Development, Blockchain large corporations, academia, and For Impact, Decade of Women, and 5th civil society. In 2018, he co-designed, Element Group PBC—all committed to along with William Clark, the frst- the advancement of the United Nations of-its-kind academic program for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). B Lawyers, in which 57 Ecuadorian Molinari has been recognized for his lawyers completed the course on B commitment by earning the United Corps, Public Beneft Corporations Nations Global Compact 2013 and BICs (Spanish for Beneft and Leaders Summit Delegate; 2014 Collective Interest Corporations). Kingonomics Emancipation of Capital He is also a board member of the Award: Emerging Markets; 2016

28 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Conscious Capitalism Chapter in Corporations. Before Harvard, he Quito and co-founder of the frst B was part of the teaching team of Pendant insurance broker in Ecuador. Commercial Law at Universidad de Lima, where he actively worked on introducing impact- and SDG-related Megan Muir topics to the syllabus. He is also the author of the Beneft Corporation General Counsel and Chief Operating draft bill that is being discussed in Offcer, Global Partnerships the Peruvian Congress this year. Megan Muir is the general counsel Nicole Motter and chief operating offcer of Global Strategy Consultant and Attorney, Partnerships, overseeing legal, fnance, Cutting Edge Capital and operations for the organization. Nicole Motter is a social impact advisor, Prior to joining Global Partnerships, consultant, lawyer, connector, and she was a Corporate and Securities builder, with an eye toward support- partner with the international law frm ing the creation of a more robust and Gordon Myers DLA Piper (US) for nearly 10 years, thriving sector of sustainable, scal- Chief Counsel, Technology and representing investors and technology able, for-proft social enterprise. Her Private Equity, International companies of all sizes. Prior to DLA work primarily focuses on internal Finance Corporation (IFC) Piper, Muir was general counsel of a development and structuring capi- Gordon Myers is chief counsel, wireless company, an attorney with tal raises for social enterprises, and Technology and Private Equity, of Venture Law Group, and a clerk to a program-related investments and International Finance Corporation, a federal judge in Seattle. She holds a innovative fnance for foundations. She member of the World Bank Group. He BA with highest honors from Pitzer is also a professor of social enterprise is global lead counsel for IFC’s funds College in Claremont, California, at Pepperdine University, where she investment practice. He has repre- and received her law degree with teaches courses in the school’s gradu- sented IFC in a number of complex honors from Harvard Law School. ate program in Social Entrepreneurship funds initiatives, including impact and Change. A lifelong changemaker, fund structures targeting SMEs in Motter spent nearly a decade work- frontier regions, and funds invest- ing directly with underserved youth ing in listed companies in emerging and international human rights before markets. He has also been active going to law school to explore social in corporate governance matters, change-making on a larger scale. She and in developing approaches to has since cultivated a career that Juan Diego improving ESG alignment and per- combines her wide-ranging knowl- Mujica Filippi formance of IFC’s investee funds. edge and expertise in ground-level LLM Candidate at Myers has previously been global program development and imple- Harvard Law School lead counsel for IFC’s venture capital mentation, research and education, Juan Diego Mujica Filippi is an LLM practice and was a core member of and corporate and impact investing candidate at Harvard Law School and the Bank Group’s Science, Technology law. Motter is a strategy consultant an experienced Peruvian corporate and Innovation Global Expert Team. and attorney with Social Innovation attorney. His area of academic research He also represents IFC on intellectual Strategies and Cutting Edge Capital. is for-beneft organizations—in par- property and information security ticular, the Beneft Corporation—with matters, and speaks often on funds a focus in Latin America. Within his structuring and innovation issues. He corporate practice, he has coun- holds an AB from Stanford University, seled for-proft business organiza- a JD from Stanford Law School, and tions that want to craft a social or an MBA from Wharton School. environmental purpose to become Certifed B Corps or eventually Beneft

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Siri Nelson Jonathan Ng Joseph M. Nicchitta Law Student ‘19, Northeastern Attorney Advisor, Offce of the Director, Department of University School of Law; founder, General Counsel, US Agency for Consumer and Business Affairs, How To Get It Done (HTGID) International Development (USAID) County of Los Angeles Siri Nelson is a recent graduate of Jonathan Ng has experience working As director of the Los Angeles County Northeastern University School of Law, in the government, NGO, private, Department of Consumer and Business where she founded How To Get It and academic sectors. He currently Affairs, Joseph Nicchitta oversees an Done (HTGID), a student organization serves as an attorney advisor within expansive portfolio of programs and committed to helping students convert the USAID Offce of the General leads work on numerous initiatives, their political passion for social justice Counsel covering the Offce of including fnancial empowerment, into meaningful action. In Spring 2017, Private Capital and Microenterprise minimum wage enforcement, and when she was a 1L, Nelson led HTGID’s (PCM) and the Education Offce, small business development. As part efforts to put together a student-driven both within the Bureau for Economic of the department’s small business conference aimed at fostering orga- Growth, Education and Environment programs, Nicchitta leads a frst-of- nizing skills and building community. (E3). Through the PCM offce, Ng its-kind Social Enterprise Certifcation Her professional experience includes provides overall legal and policy Program, designed to increase gov- being a 2017 Internet Public Interest guidance for initiatives related to ernment contracting opportunities Opportunities Program law clerk at the the agency’s recent launch of its new for social enterprises in Los Angeles Electronic Privacy Information Center private sector engagement (PSE) County. Prior to joining the Department (EPIC), a 2018 Rappaport Center for policy. He also serves on USAID’s of Consumer and Business Affairs, he Law and Public Policy Fellow, and an Credit Review Board, the agency’s served in various roles for the County intern at the ACLU Massachusetts internal risk review committee for all of Los Angeles, from an attorney in the Technology for Liberty project. Nelson loan guarantees issued through the Offce of County Counsel’s Property was recently recognized for her work USAID Development Credit Authority. Division to the County’s frst-ever as an inductee to the prestigious Cannabis Management offcer. He Prior to joining USAID, Ng was the frst Northeastern Huntington 100, an honor received his law degree from New general counsel of Ashoka: Innovators recognizing students who make exem- York University School of Law in 2006. for the Public, an international NGO plary contributions to the Northeastern known for starting the modern social community while also maintaining entrepreneurship movement. He began excellent grades. Further, while at law his legal career in New York at White & school, she served as a chair of the Case in its energy, infrastructure, and Student Bar Association and Black Law project fnance group. In addition to Students Association and was selected his work at USAID, Ng is currently an to speak on behalf of her class during adjunct faculty member at Georgetown Gil Nusbaum the Northeastern University School University Law Center, where he General Counsel, of Law May 2019 commencement. co-teaches a course on law and social National Philanthropic Trust entrepreneurship. He is also a mem- Gil Nusbaum is general counsel of ber of the advisory committee for National Philanthropic Trust (NPT), the Grunin Center for Law and Social where he is responsible for a variety Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law. of legal, tax, and risk management matters and for overseeing NPT’s illiquid gifts program. He was previ- ously employed as an associate for Laura Solomon & Associates, where

30 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond he formed and advised nonproft markets. His experience includes of England and Wales. She has a organizations. Prior to that, Nusbaum a large number of debt and equity degree in English literature from the was an associate in the Family Wealth cross-border investments across many University of Cambridge and com- Management practice group at Ballard jurisdictions in Africa, Latin America, pleted her Post Graduate Diploma Spahr, where his practice included and Southeast Asia, as well as the in law at the College of Law, York. all aspects of trusts and estate law, representation of founders/sponsors including counseling individuals on and investors in the formation of invest- charitable giving techniques and ment funds and other startup vehicles assisting with the formation of giving and related capital raising activities. vehicles. Before joining Ballard Spahr, In recent years, O’Brien has had the Nusbaum was an associate in the Trusts opportunity to work with investors & Estates, Tax, and Philanthropic & and issuers on new investment types— Sandra Osborne Kartt Nonproft practice groups at Dilworth including catalytic frst loss capital, and Director of Investments, Paxson. He received his BA in sociol- startup investments structured with ImpactAssets ogy from Wesleyan University and KISS and SAFE documentation. Prior Sandra Osborne Kartt is the director his JD from Temple University. He to joining Becker Glynn, he worked for of Investments at ImpactAssets. She also holds a master’s of law degree several years as an attorney/project oversees investment management for in taxation from Temple University. manager at a startup web-based fnan- the Giving Fund, a $500MM donor NPT is an independent public charity cial services company, and spent two advised fund, including sourcing, due dedicated to providing philanthropic years practicing banking and M&A law diligence, and investment selection. expertise to donors, foundations, and with Skadden in New York. He received She also leads portfolio manage- fnancial institutions, enabling them his BS, cum laude, from Colgate ment for ImpactAssets’ two Impact to realize their philanthropic aspira- University and his JD from Columbia Notes and supports ImpactAssets’ tions. NPT offers donor-advised funds University School of Law, where he feld building efforts. Prior to joining and other giving vehicles and also was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. ImpactAssets, she served as a risk partners with independent wealth offcer at Developing World Markets, advisors and fnancial service institu- an impact investment asset man- tions to establish and manage custom ager focused on linking the capital giving solutions for their clients. markets and fnancial institutions serving the bottom of the pyramid in emerging and frontier economies. Louise Ollier She also worked at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a boutique investment bank, Senior Counsel, CDC Group as a sell-side equity research analyst Louise Ollier is a senior counsel at covering the US banking industry. CDC Group and works primarily with Patrick O’Brien its Funds and Capital Partnerships Osborne Kartt holds an MA in eco- Partner, Becker Glynn Team investing in Sub-Saharan Africa nomics from New York University Patrick O’Brien, a partner at Becker, and South Asia. She joined CDC and a BS in economics from Glynn, Muffy, Chassin & Hosinski in in 2015, prior to which she was a Louisiana State University and is New York, has been practicing corpo- legal counsel at Standard Life and a Chartered Financial Analyst. rate law for over 20 years. His practice spent 11 years at Akin Gump in the consists of corporate/project fnance, investment funds team in London. M&A, and general corporate advisory While at Akin Gump, she focused work. Since joining Becker Glynn in on private equity, hedge funds, and 2003, he has regularly represented other funds. multilateral and bilateral development Ollier trained at Simmons & Simmons fnance institutions, as well as invest- and is admitted to practice as a ment funds and other investors, making solicitor of the Supreme Court investments in emerging and frontier

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best intermediate performance, the Morris Finer Memorial Prize for best performance in Part 1, and the Linklaters Prize for Commercial Contracts. She is a fuent Korean Chintan Panchal speaker and is a trustee and co-founder Sung-Hyui Park of the Social Mission Institute. Founding Partner, Senior Associate, RPCK/Rastegar Panchal Bates Wells Braithwaite Chintan Panchal is the co-founder Sung-Hyui Park is a senior associate of RPCK, a mission-aligned global in the Impact Economy practice at boutique law frm focused on corpo- Bates Wells, the frst and only UK rate, fnance, and M&A transactions. law frm to be certifed as a B Corp. He leads RPCK’s impact investing It is also recognized for combining practice and counsels family offces, practical, commercial legal expertise Eleonore Pauwels funds, and entrepreneurs on structur- with the deep understanding of the Research Fellow on Emerging ing and executing multiple bottom impact economy that comes from Cybertechnologies, United Nations line transactions and building social working with more charities, not-for- University Centre for Policy Research enterprises. He also sits on the board profts, and social impact-focused Eleonore Pauwels is the Research of Camelback Ventures, a nonproft businesses than any other UK law frm. Fellow on Emerging Cybertechnologies business incubator supporting women at United Nations University Centre Park advises on the full range of activ- and minority entrepreneurs. He is for Policy Research. Prior to UNU, ities carried out by clients seeking to also pro bono general counsel to Pauwels held the position of director have a positive social impact through the charity Keep A Child Alive. of the Anticipatory Intelligence (AI) their business and other activities, Lab with the Science and Technology Panchal’s theory of change is that including capital raising, formation, Innovation Program at the Woodrow capitalism, as a powerful tool for har- governance, and general not-for-proft Wilson International Center for nessing human effort, can be a highly and commercial law issues. She has a Scholars. She is a former offcial of the effective force for driving positive particular interest in structuring and European Commission’s Directorate change in the world, if aligned properly. executing impact-focused invest- on Science, Economy and Society. Prior to starting RPCK, he practiced ment transactions in a wide range of law at Allen & Overy and also clerked forms, including debt, equity, qua- Pauwels is a writer and international for Judge Judith M. Barzilay of the US si-equity and blended fnance, ven- science policy expert who specializes Court of International Trade. He lives ture philanthropy, and grant funding. in the governance and democrati- in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, with Her clients range from development zation of converging technologies. his wife and two young daughters. fnance institutions (DFIs), charities Her research analyzes and compares and international NGOs, corporate how emerging technologies, such as and charitable foundations, impact artifcial intelligence, blockchain, and investors, and purposeful businesses. genome-editing, raise new oppor- tunities and challenges for health, Previously, Park trained and worked security, economics, and governance for 10 years in the Banking & Finance in different geo-political contexts. She team at Clifford Chance, where she examines the promises and perils advised on an extensive range of that will likely arise with the devel- high-value, multi-jurisdictional emerg- opment of AI civil and military tech- ing markets, acquisition fnance, and nologies, the Internet of Bodies and other fnancing transactions. She Living Things, and the convergence of has a frst-class honours degree in cyber- and bio-security. Pauwels is an LLB Laws from the London School advisor on the AI Initiative at Harvard of Economics, where she was also Kennedy School and the IEEE Global awarded the John Griffth Prize for

32 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, as well as an expert for the World Economic Forum.

Pauwels regularly testifes before US, European, and international authori- ties, including the US Department of María Pea Andrea Phillips State, the US National Academy of Head of Legal, Symbiotics Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Sciences, the US National Institutes of María Pea is the head of Legal Maycomb Capital Health, the US National Intelligence at Symbiotics, a Swiss-based asset Andi Phillips is co-founder and manag- Council, the European Commission, management company specialized ing partner at Maycomb Capital, a new the Organization for Economic in microfnance and impact invest- impact investing platform, under which Co-Operation and Development, and ments in emerging and frontier she leads the Community Outcomes the United Nations. She is also well- markets, with eight offces across Fund, the largest US outcomes-based versed in communicating complex the world. She is responsible for all fnancing fund to date. Phillips has and novel scientifc developments for the group’s legal, governance, and over 25 years of experience leading, lay audiences (including TEDxCERN regulatory affairs, including managing designing, and implementing large- on CRISPR, PBS interview on the dual and providing support for Symbiotics’ scale, public/private partnerships nature of AI, and AI Media inter- cross-border impact investing activi- that leverage private investment to view). Bilingual in French and English, ties across the value chain of invest- address pressing social challenges. she frequently writes for Nature, ments. As a member of the senior Previously, she launched and managed the New York Times, the Guardian, management team, Pea contributes the Goldman Sachs Social Impact Fund Scientifc American, Le Monde, Slate, to the operational strategy, gover- and led signature and the World Economic Forum. nance, and risk management of the investments for the frm, including the Symbiotics group. Her other felds of investment in the Rikers Island Social expertise include compliance, cor- Impact Bond, the frst such transaction porate, commercial, and labor law. ever executed by a fnancial institu- tion in the US market. She has been Prior to Symbiotics, Pea worked for the principal investment professional, over 12 years as an in-house legal leading the investment for four of counsel in the private and invest- the frst eight transactions done in Neil Pearson ment banking sector in Geneva, the US market, including transactions Partner, Mills & Reeve Switzerland, and Luxembourg. She that fnanced recidivism reduction in Neil Pearson is a partner in the tax started her professional career with a Massachusetts and early childhood team at UK law frm Mills & Reeve, traineeship in the Legal Service of the education in Utah and Chicago. specializing in advising on all aspects European Parliament, in Luxembourg. of investments into businesses and Earlier, Phillips was president of a Pea holds a master’s degree in law social enterprises. He was one of the Community Development Financing from Universidad San Pablo-CEU original authors of the report commis- Institution (CDFI), Seedco Financial, Madrid (Spain); a master’s degree sioned to make the case for a specifc which provided affordable capital to in European studies from Université UK tax relief for social investment in small businesses and nonprofts in dis- Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la- 2013-14. Since then he has helped advantaged communities. At Seedco, Neuve (Belgium); and a Diplme fund managers establish funds for she also managed performance-based d’Etudes Juridiques et Economiques investing into social enterprises and contracts in workforce develop- de l’Union Européenne from the has advised a number of social enter- ment, totaling over $100 million. Université de Paris I Pantheon prises raising much-needed invest- Sorbonne, Paris. She fuently speaks Phillips holds a BA from Tufts University ments. Pearson also works closely with Spanish, English, and French. and an MPP from the Harvard a number of the leading organizations Kennedy School of Government. She (such as Big Society Capital and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with Worthstone) helping to promote and her husband and three sons. grow impact investment in the UK.

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Olivia Prentice Peter Rabley Roberto Randazzo Chief Operating Offcer, Venture Partner, Omidyar Network Partner, R&P Legal Studio Associato; Impact Management Project Peter Rabley brings Omidyar Network Member of the Board of the Olivia Prentice is COO of the Impact more than 25 years of experience European Social Enterprise Law Management Project, where she leads in the international property rights Association and President, ESELA the development of best practice space as an entrepreneur, business Partner, R&P Legal Studio Associato; impact measurement and manage- leader, and technologist. In his cur- Member of the Board of the ment with both the IMP community of rent role, he invests in Property European Social Enterprise Law over 2,000 practitioners and with the Rights in emerging markets. Association and President, ESELA standard-setting organizations in the Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Roberto Randazzo is a partner at R&P IMP Structured Network (which include Rabley was the founder and CEO of Legal. Early in his career, he was in IFC, GRI, PRI, UNDP, GIIN, OECD, and International Land Systems until its corporate and business law, gaining others). She is experienced in design- recent acquisition by Thomson Reuters. signifcant experience in international ing impact management approaches Post-acquisition, Rabley was vice contracts. Over the past 20 years, he across diverse geographies for a president for global business devel- consolidated his expertise in the charity range of audiences, including wealth opment and strategy for the tax and and social business sector, deepening managers, investment managers, and accounting government division at new areas of legal consulting in the corporate leadership. She has authored Thomson Reuters. He began his career feld of innovation, both entrepre- a number of reports illustrating best implementing some of the earliest GIS/ neurial and social. He gained solid practice impact measurement and LIS into metropolitan government in experience in innovative startups management in practice, and reg- the United States in the 1980s. Over and nonproft entities, with particular ularly delivers training on this topic the next decade, he translated this attention to impact investing, social through global academic institutions experience into innovative applica- fnance, and social business matters. and industry membership networks. tions for international development Randazzo now advises several major Prior to this, Prentice led Bridges Fund as director of GIS/LIS at PADCO. entities in the social business sector on Management’s impact management Rabley graduated from the University their development and management, strategy internally across all fund types of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in as well as on fundraising, extraordi- (growth equity, social impact bond, economics and geography, as well nary transactions, tax, and accounting social businesses, and property), which as a master’s degree in geography. matters, in Europe and in emerging included developing systems for invest- countries. As part of his wider involve- ment selection and impact accounting. ment in this sector, he has developed She previously worked for CDC, the and implemented new legal forms, UK’s Development Finance Institution, taking a leading position as advisor in and with the DFID Impact Fund. charity law and social enterprises on Prentice is currently based in New York. the national and international stage.

He is a social innovation lecturer at Polytechnic of Milan and formerly taught at social enterprise, non-proft organizations, and cooperative man- agement at Bocconi University. He is author of many publications and papers in nonproft law and impact investing. Since 2012, Randazzo has

34 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond been honorary consul for the Republic secretary from 1996 to 2001. From of Uganda to Milan and Northern 2003 to 2004, she was general coun- Italy. In April 2019, he became pres- sel of Citigroup International. ident of ESELA–The Legal Network She started her legal career at for Social Impact. He is a member of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. the Special Working Group on the Lynn Roland Impact Economy of the Global Steering Robbins holds a JD from New General Counsel, Acumen Group for Impact Investment (GSG). York University School of Law Lynn Roland joined Acumen in 2010 and a BA in French literature and is general counsel, corporate sec- from Wellesley College. retary, and a member of the Extended Leadership Team and Management Committee. In that capacity, Roland ensures that the organization’s pro- grams are carried out in furtherance of Rachel Robbins its mission and in compliance with law, Senior Independent Director, drives organizational strategy, policies Atlas Mara Limited; former Dina Ellis Rochkind and risk assessment, effects strate- Vice President and General Counsel, Of Counsel, Paul Hastings gic initiatives, and advises on board International Finance Corporation Dina Ellis Rochkind is of counsel in matters. She leads the global legal Rachel F. Robbins is currently senior the Paul Hastings Government Affairs function and works across functions independent director of Atlas Mara practice and is based in the frm’s and geography to develop and imple- Limited, a UK-listed fnancial services Washington, DC, offce. Her practice ment organizational structure, policy company whose aim is to be the focuses on representing clients before and projects. Her role involves protect- premier fnancial services company members of Congress on Capitol Hill ing Acumen, while also enabling it to of Sub-Saharan Africa. She is also a and the Executive Branch. Rochkind function with effciency and creativity. Trustee of New York University School represents clients in matters involving Prior to joining Acumen, Roland of Law and an Advisory Board mem- regulatory initiatives, policymaking and had a short stint at a digital services ber of the Grunin Center for Law and legislation, and enforcement actions. company as in-house counsel; she Social Entrepreneurship. She previously She has over 20 years of experience on spent the majority of her earlier career served as a non-executive director of Capitol Hill, lobbying, and working for at McDermott Will & Emery, where FINCA Microfnance Holding Company, the Executive Branch. Prior to joining she was a partner in the corporate/ a global microfnance company. Paul Hastings, she served as senior staff transactional practice and over- for the US House Financial Services From 2008 to 2012, Robbins served as saw the pro bono program of the and Senate Banking Committees and vice president and general counsel of New York offce. Roland obtained for Senator Pat Toomey. Rochkind also the International Finance Corporation a BA as an English major from the served in the George W. Bush admin- and as a member of its Management University of Pennsylvania, and a istration as deputy assistant secretary Group. She joined the IFC with three JD from Columbia Law School. at the Treasury Department. She has decades of experience in legal and been involved in drafting major pieces fnancial services, including exten- of legislation over the last two decades, sive experience in corporate gover- including: the 2005 bankruptcy reform nance and in managing global teams legislation, the FACT Act, E-Sign, through periods of change. Between Check 21, Federal Deposit Insurance 2006 and 2008, she was executive Reform Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, vice president, general counsel, and and, most recently, the comprehensive secretary of the New York Stock and bipartisan JOBS Act, for which Exchange and NYSE Euronext. She she was the lead staffer in the Senate. spent 20 years at JPMorgan & Co. and was general counsel and corporate

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Flavia Rosembuj Delilah Rothenberg Pamela Rothenberg Global Lead for Blended Finance, Managing Director, Partner, Womble Bond Climate Business and Trust Funds, Development Capital Strategies Dickinson (US) International Finance Corporation Delilah Rothenberg is managing Pamela Rothenberg is a partner in the (IFC) director of Development Capital Washington, DC, offce of Womble Flavia Rosembuj is global lead for Strategies (DCS), an advisory frm Bond Dickinson (US), where she Blended Finance, Climate Business and specializing in sustainable invest- practices in the areas of commercial Trust Funds at the Legal Department of ment, with a particular focus on ESG real estate, business, and entrepre- the International Finance Corporation. integration and impact strategy. She neurship. Rothenberg is a change She is a lawyer with 20+ year experi- has experience in a number of sec- agent and founded her frm’s impact ence in innovative fnance, sustainable tors, including private equity, banking, business, comprised of a team of more development, environmental law, and agribusiness, infrastructure and real than 40 frm professionals working climate change. Prior to joining the assets, consumer products, and edu- at the cutting edge of the rapidly World Bank, she worked in leading law cation. Rothenberg’s past experience growing impact economy. Her mis- frms in the UK, France, and Spain. includes institutional equities at Bear, sion is to harness the positive power Stearns & Co and investment research of business to generate revenue and Rosembuj chairs the Leadership with Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG). solve endemic social problems. Committee at DC Greens, a DC-based She has been an active contributor nonproft organization that works on In 2015 and 2018, the frm’s Impact to USAID’s Responsible Land-Based food education in DC, on urban agri- Business Group was short listed for Investments initiatives, the United culture in the city, and on giving access Financial Times Innovation awards. Nations Principles for Responsible to vegetables to every ward in the city. In June of 2018, the frm’s Impact Investment (PRI) Supply Chains Business Group was part of a team Rosembuj holds a PhD from the Working Group, and the Global Impact that won the inaugural Grunin Prize University of Barcelona and an LLM Investing Network (GIIN) HoldCo for Innovation from NYU Law for the from University of Paris Sorbonne, Working Group (focused on structur- development and documentation of was a visiting scholar at Columbia ing investment vehicles for long-term a new equity investment structure. University, and is a guest speaker strategies and less liquid markets), and at Stanford School of Law. recently she served on the Board of Rothenberg serves on a number Directors of Business Council for Peace of boards, including the Advisory (Bpeace), a nonproft that provides Board for the Dingman Center for pro bono consulting to entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship at the University in confict-affected countries. She of Maryland and the Board of currently serves as a board director of Governors for the Fairfax-Falls Church Invest Africa US and is a member of Community Partnership to Prevent the SASB Standards Advisory Group. and End Homelessness. She received her BA in history, summa cum laude, Rothenberg holds a BA in history, from Tufts University and her JD from politics, and African studies from New Northwestern University School of Law. York University, where she also studied Swahili. Her work has been featured in various media outlets, and she speaks publicly on topics relating to ESG, impact, and investment in Africa.

36 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond of the Stanford Law Review), and an LLM in taxation from New York University School of Law in 1995.

William E. Ryan III Monika Scherer President and Chief Fiduciary Offcer, General Counsel & Chief Newport Trust Compliance Offcer, MicroVest William Ryan is president and chief Monika Scherer has been general fduciary offcer of Newport Trust Kevin Saunders counsel and CCO of MicroVest since Company and served as president and General Counsel, Accion 2017, providing legal counsel to chief fduciary offcer of Evercore Trust Kevin Saunders joined Accion in 2007 senior management and the board, Company, N.A., prior to the acquisition and is currently its general counsel. and overseeing legal services for all of Evercore Trust’s institutional trustee He is responsible for all of Accion’s business areas, including governance, and independent fduciary business by legal and corporate governance affairs, fund management, investment advi- Newport Trust in 2017. Before joining including managing and directly pro- sory operations, and global invest- Evercore Trust, Ryan was with Morgan viding the legal support for Accion’s ments. She is a non-voting member Stanley, where he was an executive extensive impact investing activities. of the Investment Committee. director in the Legal and Compliance He has provided essential guidance on Scherer has extensive in-house and Division and Head of ERISA Law, many different aspects of the orga- law frm experience in cross-bor- responsible for coordinating ERISA nization’s work advancing inclusive der and fnance law. Prior to joining and qualifed tax issues for Morgan fnance. He has served as the primary MicroVest, she was lead counsel at IIC/ Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group counsel for the more than 30 Accion BID Invest, the private sector arm of (Institutional Brokerage), Morgan Venture Lab and Frontier transactions the IDB Group. In that capacity, she Stanley Investment Management (Asset and investments in bold, disruptive worked in lending, equity, and fund Management), and Morgan Stanley fntech startups; helped close Accion structuring operations through Latin Smith Barney (Retail Brokerage). Investments in Microfnance, SPC; coor- America and the Caribbean, as well as dinated the capital raise and restruc- Prior to Morgan Stanley, Ryan was on institutional, strategic and fnance turing that improved and expanded the chief ERISA/Benefts counsel for matters. In the earlier part of her Accion’s microfnance work in China; Prudential Financial, Inc. from 1995 career, she worked in the Caracas and led Accion’s investment in Myanmar’s through 2004, handling ERISA-related Washington, DC, offces of Baker & DAWN; and served as the secretary HR, compensation, and product issues McKenzie, advising clients on corpo- to Accion’s Board of Directors. for Prudential Insurance, and was in rate and securities law, cross-border private practice in New York from 1987 Prior to joining Accion, Saunders transactions, and the intricacies of through 1995, specializing in ERISA served as a law clerk with Boston doing business in regulated indus- issues. On behalf of various industry University’s Offce of General Counsel, tries in developing economies. groups, he has met with and testifed a private law frm, the international Scherer is dual-qualifed to practice civil before the US Department of Labor, health nonproft Partners in Health, law (Venezuela, 2000) and common law the Treasury Department, the White and the Arkansas Department of (District of Columbia, 2007). She holds House, and various state regulators Human Services. He also provided an LLB, summa cum laude, from UCAB- on fduciary and other retirement legal services to veterans and homeless Caracas and an LLM in law and eco- issues. He has also served on various individuals and conducted research nomics from the GMU School of Law. industry groups, including the SIFMA with the International Consortium for Retirement Committee (where he Law and Development. Saunders holds served as co-chair from 2010-2013). a JD from Boston University School of Law and received his bachelor’s and Ryan received an AB in history master’s degrees from Arkansas State from Princeton University in 1984, University. He has been admitted to a JD from Stanford Law School the Bar of the State of Massachusetts. in 1987 (where he was an editor

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Astrid Scholz Michael Schrader Helen Scott Treasurer, XXcelerate Fund Of Counsel, Orrick, Professor of Law; Founder and Dr. Astrid J. Scholz is managing partner Herrington & Sutcliffe Faculty Co-Director of the Mitchell and CEO (“Chief Everything Offcer”) Michael Schrader is a member of Jacobson Leadership Program in Law of Sphaera, a system design and Orrick’s Public Finance Department and the Grunin Center for Law technology frm dedicated to co-cre- and a founding member of the frm’s and Social Entrepreneurship, ating global, distributed, democratic Portland, Oregon, offce. He works New York University School of Law infrastructure for mobilizing data, with state agencies, counties, cit- Helen Scott is professor of law and the innovations, and capital to achieve the ies, special districts and other local founder and co-director of the Mitchell Sustainable Development Goals. Scholz governments, tribal governments and Jacobson Leadership Program in Law was previously president of Ecotrust, enterprises, and for-proft and nonproft and Business and the Grunin Center a conservation-based development borrowers in structuring, negotiating, for Law and Social Entrepreneurship organization with $150M in AUM, and documenting bond issues, loans, at New York University School of where Sphaera was incubated. She is and other fnancing arrangements. Law. In the Jacobson Program, she a founding director of the XXcelerate has helped develop and co-teaches a A signifcant portion of Schrader’s Fund, a revolving loan fund and men- number of innovative law and business practice is devoted to fnancing afford- torship program created for and by courses, including Law & Business able housing projects. This includes women entrepreneurs that is piloting of Corporate Governance, Ethical representing Oregon Housing and in her home state of Oregon. She is and Legal Challenges in the Modern Community Services in connection with also a founding director of Zebras Corporation, and Turnarounds and its conduit revenue bond program. Unite, a growing global community Leadership: Law & Business. The of founders, investors, and allies who He currently serves on the boards program also coordinates program- are creating a more ethical, inclusive, of Bridge Meadows, a developer, ming with the Stern School of Business, collaborative, and sustainable approach owner, and operator of affordable including the JD/MBA Program. to building businesses. Scholz holds intergenerational housing commu- Professor Scott is currently a member degrees from the University of St. nities, and the Portland Housing of the Board of Directors of IEX and Andrews, the University of Bristol, and Center, an organization providing has been a member of the New York the University of California, Berkeley. educational and fnancial services to University of Law faculty since 1982. promote homeownership in under-

served communities. He also serves as special counsel (pro bono) to Mercy Corps and to the Rosewood Initiative.

Schrader has drafted legislation that has been enacted in Oregon, Alaska, and Indiana. He has also published Jimena Serrano Pardo articles on developments in fnancing Senior Advisor in Gender, law and has spoken at several fnance Diversity and Inclusion, IDB Invest industry seminars and continuing Jimena Serrano Pardo is a senior advi- legal education events. He received sor in Gender, Diversity and Inclusion his JD, magna cum laude, Order of at IDB Invest, the private sector branch the Coif, from Indiana University of the Inter-American Development School of Law and his BA, cum laude, Bank Group. In her current role, she from Brigham Young University. works to complement IDB Invest’s He is admitted to the bar in both investments in Latin America and Oregon and Washington states. the Caribbean with evidence-based

38 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond advice to improve gender equality within clients’ organizational structure and business operations. She led the Women’s Empowerment Principles Gap Analysis Tool, which is used globally to assess inclusiveness of John Simpkins Rina Singh corporate policies and practices. She Executive Director, Transformative Founder, Trinity Institute, also works closely with the blended Health Institute, Prisma Health Technology for Humanity fnance team to design gender pro- John Simpkins is executive director of Rina Singh is a serial entrepreneur grams for IDB Invest’s clients that can the Transformative Health Institute at with 20 years of experience growing be associated with fnancial incentives. Prisma Health–Upstate in Greenville, early-stage ventures, particularly in Prior to joining IDB Invest, Serrano South Carolina. He most recently was the area of emerging technologies. Pardo was a senior analyst in the a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke She was the co-founder and COO Economist Intelligence Unit, where University School of Law and previ- of CoEqual (formerly TrueChain), a she led the design of multiple indi- ously served as the general counsel cybersecure distributed ledger tech- ces, including the WEVentureScope of the United States Agency for nology solving the major scalability on female entrepreneurship in Latin International Development. Prior to bottlenecks of blockchain platforms. America and the Caribbean and joining USAID, he was the deputy She is an interim COO for Sanavi, a the Microscope on Microfnance, a general counsel in the White House life sciences company with patented global index that measures the Offce of Management and Budget. compounds preventing microbial resis- regulatory environment for fnan- tance, and a board member of Cloud Simpkins’ legal career has encom- cial inclusion. She presented the Charger, a residential appliance with passed private practice and academia, results of these rankings to an array patented algorithms to provide near/ including serving as of counsel at of stakeholders, including govern- free electric vehicle charging while Wyche, P.A., as a visiting assistant ments, business associations, foun- helping to load-balance the utility grid. professor of law at the University dations, and multilateral institutions. of Victoria, as assistant professor Singh is also the founder/chair of the Serrano Pardo also worked as a legal and associate director of the Riley Athena Initiative, a woman-run non- advisor in the Colombian Financial Institute at Furman University, and proft organization with the aim to edu- Superintendence. In that capacity, she as assistant professor and director of cate on issues pertaining to emerging was part of the emergency team that Diversity Initiatives at the Charleston technologies as they reshape society. was created to tackle the proliferation School of Law in South Carolina. A The organization’s primary audience of Ponzi schemes. She also contributed member of the African Network are those at the intersection of technol- with research in the newly created of the International Association of ogy and humanity: policymakers at all Corporate Governance division. She Constitutional Law, he has consulted levels—national, state, and multilateral. holds a degree in law from Universidad and conducted research in comparative Previously Singh ran the South Asia de Los Andes in Colombia and a mas- constitutional law and constitutional division of Veracity Worldwide, a pri- ter’s degree in international economics design in Nigeria, Liberia, Kenya, vate sector intelligence company. She from the Johns Hopkins’ School of Uganda, and South Africa, among other began her career with A.T. Kearney Advanced International Studies (SAIS). countries. Simpkins received his AB consultants, followed by M&A bank- in government from Harvard College ing at First Boston. She and a JD and LLM in international and holds a BA from Princeton University comparative law from Duke University and a PhD from the University of School of Law. He is a Fellow of the Oxford, where she was a Fulbright American Bar Foundation and a mem- Scholar and had her dissertation ber of the Aspen Global Leadership published by MacMillan Press. Network at the Aspen Institute.

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advisor to the UN Global Compact on and developing countries on complex Governance and Anti-Corruption, and issues of economic development, a member of the Global Compact’s investment regulation, international Expert Network. Smith has advised law, and human rights. Sorenson is a multinationals, state-owned enterprises, Certifed Practitioner of the Leadership Laura Smith governments, and UN agencies in Circle Profle, a Qualifed Teacher of more than 20 countries on six conti- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Associate, Harter Secrest & Emery nents. He speaks and writes frequently and a founding co-chair of the Laura Smith is an Environmental, Land on issues of governance, rule of law, Mindfulness and Well-Being Committee Use, and Municipal attorney in the and business, and his commentary can of the NYC Bar Association. He holds Rochester, New York, offce of Harter be found in The Hill, the Washington a BA from Western Michigan University, Secrest & Emery. In addition to rep- Times, Directorship, and Huffngton an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, resenting the frm as attorney for the Post, among others. In 2016, Smith was and a JD from American University Town for Irondequoit, New York, Smith recognized by the UN Global Compact Washington College of Law. represents businesses, developers, as one of 10 Global SDG Pioneers for municipalities, and public authorities on his work to advance peace, justice, a wide range of issues that include zon- governance, and the rule of law. ing and planning, municipal law, gover- nance, procurement, and compliance with the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act. She served as a law clerk for the Environmental Protection Matthew Sparkes Agency Region III, Offce of Regional Vice President, Lead Investments Counsel. She holds a BA from the and Risk Counsel, College of Wooster and a JD from the Bjorn Sorenson BlueOrchard Finance University of Pennsylvania Law School. Of Counsel, Blue Dot Advocates, Matthew Sparkes is vice president, PBC; Member, IILWG Lead Investments and Risk Counsel Bjorn Sorenson is of counsel to Blue for BlueOrchard Finance, a pioneer- Dot Advocates, PBC, a social impact ing manager of impact investment law frm and public beneft coopera- funds. As the principal transaction-fo- tive. He is also founder of King Spoke cused legal advisor for BlueOrchard, Advisors, a boutique frm that serves his practice centers on structuring, Ulysses Smith as counsel, consultant, and coach to documenting, and restructuring of mission-driven organizations. Through emerging markets debt and equity President and Chief Executive his legal and executive coaching prac- impact investments. He is also a senior Offcer, Telos Governance Advisers; tice, Sorenson helps social entrepre- member of the team responsible for Director of Bingham Centre Business neurs, businesses, and leaders fnd their investment risk management and and the Rule of Law Program values, develop sustainable leader- the monitoring processes for debt Ulysses Smith is a leading US attorney ship, and achieve enduring impact. A and equity investments in a portfolio and thought leader on issues of gov- champion for resilient leadership in the spanning more than 60 countries. ernance, sustainability, development law, he has coached law students, law and anti-corruption. He is the president Prior to joining BlueOrchard, Sparkes frms, and judges to emerge as healthy and CEO of Telos Governance Advisers, served as the corporate counsel for agents for social change. He was the which works with businesses, govern- Root Capital, where he was responsi- frst general counsel to the US affliate ments, and nonprofts on issues of ble for developing the in-house legal of Grameen Bank’s Nobel Prize-winning governance, human rights, sustainabil- function and served as both a legal and microfnance program, and previ- ity, and anti-corruption. He is counsel at strategic business advisor to exec- ously he served as a senior associate the law frm Hoffman Kessler, direc- utive management. He has worked at the law frm of Skadden Arps. His tor of the Business and Rule of Law in private practice advising public pro bono practice includes advising Programme at the think tank Bingham companies, NGOs, and small busi- diverse stakeholders in post-confict Centre for the Rule of Law, special nesses on public policy and regulatory

40 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond matters, and he previously served Formerly the director of Credit as both special counsel to the US Policy for the corporation and a Securities and Exchange Commission former private sector banker, she and as a national security advisor to held various positions in fnance and a senior member of the US House of banking. Strauss has an MBA from Representatives. Sparkes is a gradu- the University of Connecticut and Scott Taitel ate of the College of the Holy Cross a BA from Lake Forest College. Clinical Professor of Public Service, and Northeastern University School Director of Social Impact, Innovation of Law. He works, lives (and skis as and Investment, Wagner Graduate often as humanly possible) in Geneva, School of Public Service, Switzerland, with his wife, Dr. Susan New York University Sparkes, and their two young children. Scott Taitel is clinical professor of Public Service and director of Social John J. Suydam Impact, Innovation and Investment at Chief Legal Offcer, the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Apollo Global Management Public Service. He teaches numerous John Suydam is a senior partner and courses, including Managing Financial

chief legal offcer at Apollo, which and Social Returns of Social Enterprises, Mitchell Strauss he joined in 2006. He is also a Social Impact Investment, Corporate Special Advisor for Socially member of the frm’s Management Finance & Public Policy, and Financial Responsible Investment Finance, Committee. Previously, Suydam was Management for Global Nonproft Overseas Private Investment a partner at O’Melveny & Myers, Organizations, and leads an interdisci- Corporation (OPIC) where he served as head of Mergers plinary practicum of NYU Wagner and Mitchell Strauss is special advisor and Acquisitions and co-head of the NYU Stern School of Business students for Socially Responsible Investment Corporate Department. He serves in the development of a student-op- Finance at the Overseas Private on the boards of the Legal Action erated Impact Investment Fund. Investment Corporation, a US gov- Center and Environmental Solutions Professor Taitel has also created ernment corporation charged with Worldwide Inc. and is a director of the Social Innovation & Investment mobilizing and facilitating US private the American Investment Council. He Initiative at Wagner, which serves investment in developing countries is a Trustee of New York University as a central hub and incubator in throughout the world. She is respon- School of Law and is a member of the the feld of social fnance bringing sible for impact investing, including Department of Medicine Advisory together policymakers, philanthro- policy and origination of innovative Board of Mount Sinai Medical Center. pists, fnance professionals, nonprofts, fnancing products and structures Suydam received his JD from New and foundations to collaboratively designed specifcally to leverage York University School of Law and a BA, strengthen the growing feld. socially responsible investment to magna cum laude, in history from the achieve sustainable projects in emerg- As former chief operating offcer for State University of New York at Albany. ing markets. She collaborates with the Clinton Foundation’s Enterprise other US private sector and govern- Partnership, Professor Taitel was ment and international government responsible for establishing impact entities to assist in coordinating investment funds and the oversight private and public funding to eff- of a portfolio of social enterprises, ciently support projects with socially as well as economic develop- responsible or impact investment ment, health, and nutrition projects elements for the corporation, including throughout the developing world. micro fnance and SME businesses.

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Prior to joining the Clinton Foundation, executive director of LITE Lab@HKU, Professor Taitel was a managing part- an interdisciplinary and experiential ner of an international venture capital program on law, innovation, tech- frm and held numerous senior exec- nology and entrepreneurship (LITE), utive roles in both private and public including assisting social enterprises. multinational technology companies. Tang also founded Young Makers Lucas Tesler & ChangeMakers, an inclusive Co-Founder, Goodbit STEAM education social enterprise Lucas Tesler is an authority on cryp- for youth to address UN SDGs tocurrency and blockchain education. through innovative solutions. He is a co-founder of Goodbit101. com, the most robust online platform designed to teach new users about Brian W Tang these technologies. Goodbit uses text, Managing Director, ACMI; graphics, and engaging videos to get Founding Executive Director, people up to speed on how crypto- LITE Lab@HKU currency and blockchain work, with no Brian W Tang is an innovator, Perry Teicher prior knowledge needed. The company educator, and ecosystem-builder is venture funded, and its mission is Impact Finance Attorney, Orrick, with a social mission. to accelerate the adoption of crypto- Herrington & Sutcliffe currency and blockchain. When not He has extensive experience as a Perry Teicher represents and advises working at Goodbit, Tesler is a student corporate lawyer at Wall Street law entrepreneurs, fund sponsors, family at Brown University studying business frm Sullivan & Cromwell in New York offces, and tax-exempt organizations and attention science. He has spoken and Silicon Valley and global invest- across a wide range of transactions, at many cryptocurrency and blockchain ment bank Credit Suisse in Hong including corporate legal matters, events and has led workshops for Kong, where he advised on some cross-border mergers and acquisi- DC lawmakers so that they can make of the world’s largest and frst-ever tions, private fund formation matters better-informed policy decisions. fnancial services and technology and portfolio transactions, and pri- capital markets transactions, M&A, vate placements. Teicher particularly and project fnancings. He was advises clients that aim to integrate president of Credit Suisse’s APAC social, environmental, and fnancial Microfnance Advocates and nudged outcomes. As Orrick’s impact fnance more impact investing as its Hong attorney, he leads Orrick’s Impact Kong Charity Committee co-chairman. Finance & Investment practice, the frst impact-oriented practice at a global John Tobin Tang founded ACMI to provide law frm. Orrick’s Impact Finance & Professor of Practice, inclusive global thought leadership, Investment practice serves a global SC Johnson College of Business, industry-wide consensus building, and client base across a range of sectors, Cornell University transformational support for innovative leveraging Orrick’s unique capabilities Professor John Tobin-de la Puente is a technology, educational, and policy to provide innovative, effective, and professor of practice at the Charles H. solutions, including in ESG reporting. thoughtful legal services to those Dyson School of Applied Economics In addition to being a recognized clients aiming to create positive and Management at Cornell University. author and speaker in fntech (with social and environmental change Professor Tobin is an environmental 37,000 MOOC learners worldwide), alongside targeted fnancial returns. biologist and attorney by training. He lawtech/regtech (with hackathons has over two decades of private sector and incubators supporting access to experience, having practiced corporate justice and fnancial inclusion proj- law and worked in the international ects), and AI governance (sitting fnance industry for most of his career. on IEEE’s Global AI Ethics Initiative His recent professional experience Policy Committee), Tang is founding has been focused on corporate

42 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond sustainability, including the manage- served as a Law & Policy Fellow with ment of environmental, social, and the Poverty & Race Research Action reputational risks, stakeholder engage- Council in Washington, DC, a civil ment and communications, business rights advocacy organization dedicated ethics, sustainability strategy, and the to helping connect policy advocates development of fnancial products and with social scientists working on race Anne Tucker services that aim to address broad and poverty issues. Prior to embark- Associate Professor of Law & societal challenges. In addition, he has ing on a career as a legal advocate Faculty Director, Legal Analytics & substantial leadership and governance and scholar, he worked as a strategy Innovation Initiative, Georgia State experience in nonproft entities at the consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, University College of Law board level, particularly in the areas of focusing on environmental policy and Anne Tucker, professor of law at environment, science, and education. sustainable development initiatives. Georgia State University College Professor Toussaint is a graduate of of Law, researches corporate law, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently focusing on issues related to where he earned a BS in mechanical institutional investors and retirement engineering. At MIT, he was designated investors. Her research focuses on a Ronald McNair Scholar and received how pooled investments are regulated the Alpha Phi Alpha Distinguished but also on their power to achieve Etienne Toussaint Collegiate Award. He completed an important personal and social ends Assistant Professor of Law, MSE in environmental engineering such as retirement security and private University of the District of from Johns Hopkins University, where funding for social entrepreneurship. Columbia, David A. Clarke he served as graduate student adviser Her interdisciplinary empirical work on School of Law for Engineers Without Borders. He impact investment terms through her Etienne C. Toussaint is an assistant earned his JD at Harvard Law School, collaboration with the Wharton Social professor of law at the UDC David where he was a student-attorney in Impact Initiative is among the frst A. Clarke School of Law. He teaches the Transactional Law Clinic, the Ghana academic work on the topic. Professor Contracts I & II and co-directs the Human Rights Clinic, and the Harvard Tucker also serves as the faculty direc- Community Development Law Clinic,, Defenders, while also serving as an edi- tor of the Legal Analytics & Innovation where he supervises the representa- tor of the Environmental Law Review, Initiation, where she works to incor- tion of cooperative housing develop- vice president of the Board of Student porate data science methodologies ments, entrepreneurs, small businesses, Advisers, and a member of the National in the research and study of the law. and nonproft organizations in the Executive Board of the National Washington, DC, metropolitan area Black Law Students Association. on a wide range of transactional legal Professor Toussaint’s research interests matters, including housing develop- include community economic devel- ment and fnance, entity formation, opment theory, environmental justice contract drafting, business counseling, advocacy, and economic justice reform , and tax issues. through progressive transactional law John E. Tyler Prior to joining the law faculty at UDC practice. His recent article, “The New General Counsel, Ewing in 2017, Professor Toussaint served as Gospel of Wealth: On Social Impact Marion Kauffman Foundation; a visiting associate professor of clinical Bonds and The Privatization of Public Course Designer and Lecturer, law and Friedman Fellow with the Good,” was published by Houston Columbia University Small Business & Community Economic Law Review in the fall of 2018. John Tyler is general counsel, secretary, Development Clinic at George and chief ethics offcer for the Ewing Washington University Law School. Marion Kauffman Foundation. He is Professor Toussaint began his legal responsible for all legal aspects of the career as a project fnance associate foundation’s operations, including intel- with the international law frm Norton lectual property, employment, invest- Rose Fulbright US. Subsequently, he ments, governance, and compliance

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with applicable IRS regulations. Prior spent time in the New York, Hong For the past nine years, he has been an to joining the foundation six years Kong, Moscow, and Frankfurt offces. adjunct professor at the Michigan Law ago, Tyler practiced law with one of He holds a BA from the University School International Transactions Clinic Kansas City’s largest law frms, where of Notre Dame and a JD from the (ITC), focusing on impact investment, he emphasized commercial litigation University of Pennsylvania Law School and has been teaching at New York (including copyright and trademark and is a member of the New York Bar. University School of Law’s ITC since its claims), personal injury litigation, and founding two years ago. He also serves employment law. He has written several on the Advisory Board of the Michigan articles published in law reviews and Ross School of Business, Social Venture legal journals, is a frequent national Fund, the oldest student-led impact and local presenter on legal topics, investment fund. In conjunction with and has received numerous awards the Michigan Law School ITC, he for his public service. Tyler has served Carl Valenstein represented Habitat for Humanity on several nonproft boards, including International in establishing MicroBuild, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius current service on the advisory board a $50 million fund that expands hous- Carl Valenstein is a partner at Morgan for the National Center on Philanthropy ing microfnance lending and helps Lewis & Bockius and recently relocated & Law at New York University School thousands of low-income families glob- to the Boston offce from Washington, of Law and the School Board for the ally. The fund has now been expanded DC, where he practiced for over Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, to $100 million and has received 30 years. His practice focuses on where he just completed his third the Overseas Private Investment domestic and international corporate term as president. He and his wife Corporation’s (OPIC) 2016 Access and securities matters, mergers and are the parents of six children. to Finance Award. This project was acquisitions, project development, and recently recognized by the Financial asset fnance covering a wide range Times for innovative social fnance. of industries and regions, including developed and emerging markets (Latin America and Africa). He also counsels clients concerning interna- tional risk management issues and has Stephen Valdes-Robles been involved in internal investigations Senior Counsel, NatureVest and enforcement cases in this area. Steve Valdes-Robles is the senior Valenstein is fuent in Spanish and Maria Santos Valentin attorney responsible for advising The Portuguese and conversant in French General Counsel and Corporate Nature Conservancy, including and Italian. He received a BA, cum Secretary, The Rockefeller its NatureVest unit, on impact invest- laude, in history from Yale University Foundation ments. He has worked as an attorney in and a JD from Michigan Law School. As The Rockefeller Foundation’s the public and private sector in multiple general counsel and corporate sec- For more than 20 years, Valenstein countries across fve continents. Prior retary, Maria Santos Valentin over- has provided legal assistance to to joining the Conservancy, he was a sees and advises the foundation on microfnance institutions and assisted foreign service legal offcer for the US a broad range of legal matters. public charities, foundations, social Agency for International Development enterprises and entrepreneurs, impact Prior to joining the foundation, Santos (USAID), where he completed tours in investment venture capital funds, and Valentin worked at the Soros Economic Washington, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and other impact investors. He founded Development Fund—part of the Open Mozambique. At USAID, he advised and co-chairs the Morgan Lewis Society Foundations—since its incep- on a wide range of matters, including Impact Investment Initiative, which tion in 1998, most recently serving as conservation, development fnance, is a cross-offce and interdisciplin- secretary and general counsel. In this agriculture, water and sanitation, ary group of Morgan Lewis lawyers capacity, she structured and negotiated health, and education. Before USAID, engaged in impact investment work. the fund’s more than 40 innovative pro- he was a corporate attorney at Cleary gram-related investments around the Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where he world, primarily in Central and Eastern

44 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Europe, India, Africa, and the Middle East, which totaled over $200 million. The investments focused on increasing fnancial inclusion around the world and improving the lives of smallholder farm- ers, refugees, and migrants—ranging Dara Westling from a project that helped provide over Marleen Vogelaar Founder and CEO, Investor Relations, Direct Public 300,000 owned affordable housing Shapeways and Ziel Offering / RegA+ Crowdinvesting units in South Africa, to establishing a Marleen Vogelaar spent her teens Offering, TechSoup wholly owned holding company in India, and 20s on the track, immersed in the Dara Westling helps mission-aligned Aspada, which was the frst of its kind world of competitive athletics. Her businesses, social ventures, and non- to be created by a private foundation. professional background is in manu- profts with fnancing strategies. She is Prior to her work at the Soros facturing and fnance. As co-founder proud to be working with the TechSoup Economic Development Fund, Santos of Shapeways, the world’s largest 3D team, Cutting Edge Counsel, and SVX Valentin worked for 10 years as an printing service and marketplace for US to launch and manage TechSoup’s international corporate securities consumers, she has driven the transfor- $11.5 million capital raise, utilizing the lawyer, frst for Brown & Wood, mation of 3D printing into the digital SEC’s Regulation A+. TechSoup, a non- based in the United States, and then era of mass custom manufacturing. proft social enterprise, has matched Clifford Chance, based in the United With Ziel, Vogelaar brings her expertise changemakers with over $11.1B in tech Kingdom. In that capacity, she worked of digital manufacturing to apparel. donations and services in 200+ coun- on emerging market capital markets She is rewriting the rules of the industry tries and territories worldwide. transactions in Central and Eastern by making on-demand, eco-friendly, Westling previously served on Europe and Latin America, many of high-performance athletic wear, with a TechSoup’s executive team support- which were the frst such issuances personal interest in creating clothing ing a variety of global initiatives. In out of the country, including Spain, for people of all shapes and sizes. addition, she has consulted and Romania, Argentina, and China. In advised on capital raising projects, addition, she worked for two years including Guerrilla Development’s as a senior commercial associate two-building development proj- with the Overseas Private Investment ect, Jolene’s First Cousin, which was Corporation, where she helped struc- designed to help address Portland, ture a small business lending program. Oregon’s, growing homelessness Santos Valentin is a member of the Kyle Westaway problem. She has also served on a New York Bar and the American Bar Managing Partner, Westaway crowdfunding advisory committee Association and was also appointed Kyle Westaway is the author of Proft at the State of Oregon’s Division of to the Water Board of New York City & Purpose, the managing partner at Financial Regulation to explore the by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, serv- Westaway—an innovative Brooklyn evolution of crowdfunding exemptions. ing in that role from 2003 to 2008. law frm that counsels social entre- Westling currently serves on the preneurs—and a lecturer on law She holds a BA in economics board of The Transitions Project, is a at Harvard Law School, where he from Fordham University and member of the visioning committee co-teaches a course on social entrepre- a JD from Yale Law School. for the Ninety-Nine Girlfriends collec- neurship. Every Saturday morning he tive giving initiative, and is a member sends out the Weekend Briefng—an of Business for a Better Portland. She email on the impact of innovation is a small business owner, has an on society. Westaway serves on the MBA, a master’s degree in public and board of the Closed Loop Foundation international affairs, and a certifcate in and is a mentor at Harvard’s I-Lab. impact investing and social enterprise.

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Aaron Wright Julie Wynne Katy Yang Assistant Clinical Professor, Partner, Froriep Fellow, Grunin Center for Law Cardozo Law School; Director, Julie Wynne is a partner at the Swiss and Social Entrepreneurship, Cardozo Blockchain Project law frm Froriep and the head of its New York University School of Law Aaron Wright is an expert in corporate Charities and Social Enterprise practice. Katy Yang is a Teaching Fellow for the and intellectual property law, with International Transactions Clinic at New Wynne advises nonproft organiza- extensive experience in internet and York University School of Law and a tions and mission-driven businesses new technology issues. Before joining Fellow at the Grunin Center for Law for their set-up and tax issues and Cardozo’s faculty, he sold a company and Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to assists them with mergers, reorganiza- to Wikia, the for-proft sister project of joining NYU Law, she was an associ- tions, joint ventures, and other forms Wikipedia, where he ran Wikia’s New ate at global law frm Cleary Gottlieb of collaborative working, as well as York offce, served as general counsel Steen & Hamilton, where she repre- constitutional reviews. In addition, and vice president of Product and sented US and international clients she regularly provides advices on Business Development, and helped in a variety of complex domestic and grant-making, fundraising, corpo- build an open source search engine. cross-border transactions and advised rate philanthropy, and governance. on compensation and benefts, corpo- Wright has clerked for Judge William Wynne is specially involved in the rate governance, capital markets, and J. Martini of the US District Court promotion of philanthropy and the use debt fnance matters. During her time for the District of New Jersey and of business as a force for good. She is at Cleary Gottlieb, Yang also main- worked as an associate at several a board member of B Lab (Switzerland), tained an active pro bono practice that prominent New York law frms, includ- ESELA–The Legal Network for Social included serving as an extern attorney ing Patterson Belknap and Jenner Impact and Giving Women. She is with Lawyers Alliance for New York and & Block. He received his JD from also co-chair of STEP Philanthropy advising nonprofts on various gover- the Cardozo School of Law, where Advisors Steering Committee and a nance, regulatory, and contract matters. he served as the editor-in-chief of member of the Legal Advisory Board the Cardozo Law Review. He has a Yang has also worked on issues of of Sustainable Finance Geneva. forthcoming book about blockchain gender violence and currently serves as technology and the law (co-authored a committee co-chair of the Sanctuary with Primavera De Filippi) that will be for Families Pro Bono Council and as published by Harvard University Press. a member of the Steering Committee for LeGal’s LGBTQ Homeless Youth Clinic. She earned her BA in the Plan II Honors Program and BBA in the Business Honors Program, both with highest honors, from the University of Texas at Austin, where she wrote her senior thesis on social entrepre- neurship in young people. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and is a member of the New York Bar.

46 Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—in the US and Beyond Joseph W. Yockey Co-Editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law Joseph W. Yockey is a professor of law and the Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. He joined the faculty in 2010 and writes in the areas of corpo- rate governance, compliance, social enterprise, and higher education. He recently co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law with Professor Benjamin Means, and his scholarship appears in leading law journals across the country.

Before coming to Iowa, Professor Yockey practiced corporate litigation at Sidley Austin in Chicago. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, where he served as articles editor for the University of Illinois Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge John D. Tinder (retired from the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit).

Professor Yockey is also the vice president and president-elect of the University of Iowa Faculty Senate, as well as the co-founder of Iowa Law’s First-Generation Professionals student organization (launched in 2019). This year, he will begin serving on the Iowa State Bar Association’s Business Law Council.

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