Practices

Social Impact

Supporting our clients as they change the world

Why Cooley

  • Work with hundreds of companies pursuing social or environmental goals as part of their business model

  • Regularly counsel social enterprises on integrating impact into traditional corporate forms and have a leading practice advising on new corporate forms, including PBCs and benefit corporations

  • Frequently advise investors in financings of social enterprises and mission-driven companies across a variety of sectors and counsel venture capital firms and family offices on structuring traditional debt and equity investments to incorporate social and environmental goals

  • Best-in-class fund formation practice counsels investors on innovative fund formation models to integrate social or environmental impact goals into fund management

  • Work with clients who are pioneering corporate social responsibility models, advising on the creation of ESG policies and corporate governance and reporting