Unlocking Scale: The Legal Framework for Utilizing Catalytic Capital

Familiarity with legal issues in complex impact deals can empower you to access catalytic capital, enable innovative legal structuring, and make for a smooth deal process. Complications arise when a matter involves legal issues that are unknown or not well understood. This session provides a framework on how impact funds can leverage philanthropic and other impact-first funding to unlock traditional investment capital, creating vital support for underrepresented sectors, communities and causes. Learn the basics of concessionary capital and first-loss structures, which are essential tools for de-risking opportunities and enticing market investors, and explore legal constraints and guardrails charities navigate when investing for impact.