Social Capital

In 2010, Congress enacted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) to help the US government identify US taxpayers who hold financial assets abroad in order to facilitate tax compliance. [...]

Next week, I will be speaking at the Nexus Global Youth Summit about financing “projects” in the impact space.  I think the conference organizer is interested in the work we’ve done to design [...]

Impact investing arrived on the world stage last week during the G8 Social Impact Investment Forum.  Heralded as a transformative tool with the potential to reshape global capital markets, both [...]

Last night Colorado became the fifteenth state to make the benefit corporation form available to entrepreneurs. Governor Hickenlooper signed the legislation in a bubbly ceremony at New Belgium [...]

Our latest guest post arrives courtesy of two like-minded lawyers from across the pond, Anthony Murphy and Michael Vanaselja. Anthony is the founder and managing director of Prime Advocates, a [...]

The question of how impact-driven businesses approach exits continues to persist in our work. Paul Hudnut, friend of the firm, advisor at the Bohemian Foundation, professor of entrepreneurship [...]

The university has received a $13 million donation from technology entrepreneur James Lee Sorenson, a graduate of University of Utah. Unlike other universities, such as Duke and Michigan, that [...]

The Commonwealth Development Corporation Group (CDC), Great Britain’s Development Finance Institution, has announced that it is seeking new ways to expand the market for impact investment in [...]

As the year ends and we continue to wait for SEC regulations concerning crowdfunding to be finalized, some crowdfunding sites, like crowdfunder, are applying fundraising techniques from creative [...]

The Internet has reduced the cost of many things – free email, a plethora of free content, free or cheap online services – to the point that we have come to expect things to be free, [...]