MoFo Impact

November 24, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Resources
Morrison & Foerster Spearheads Launch of California Rebuilding Fund
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac, Linda A. Arnsbarger and Michael P. Santos
California Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the launch of The California Rebuilding Fund (the Fund), a program built to support California’s smallest businesses so they can adapt, reopen, and recover from the effects of COVID-19. The California Rebuilding Fund is a public-private partnership that
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November 18, 2020 - Funding - Financing
Patents to Save the Planet
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac and Otis Littlefield Ph.D.
Suz Mac Cormac, Rufus Pichler, and Otis Littlefield argue that patent licensing is a potentially powerful tool to address climate change in an article authored for Intellectual Property Magazine. “Increasingly, companies with green technology are also focused on monetizing environmental benefits,” the authors wrote.
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October 21, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Resources
Impactful Conversations: Discussing Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)
By: Michael P. Santos
In this episode of Impactful Conversations, Michael Santos, a social enterprise and impact investing associate in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office, interviews Bulbul Gupta, the president and CEO of Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), a Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) fund based in Oakland,
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September 30, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Resources
Impactful Conversations: A Conversation with Andrew Macintosh at March Fund
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac
In this episode of Impactful Conversations, Susan Mac Cormac, the chair of MoFo’s Energy and Social Enterprise and Impact Investing practices, interviews Andrew Macintosh, the COO and CFO of the March Fund—a tech fund focused on the development of food and health solutions that support
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August 11, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Reporting, Measuring
ESG Goes Mainstream: How “Return First” PE Funds Can Factor ESG Considerations into Their Investment and Portfolio Management Strategies
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac
Considering environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors when making an investment is no longer solely the province of “impact-first” investors—those who prioritize social or environmental impact above return on capital—but has become, to one degree or another, the norm among private equity (PE) funds.
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July 10, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Corporate Form
DELAWARE LEGISLATURE PASSES AMENDMENT ON PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATIONS
By: Alfredo B. D. Silva and Michael P. Santos
In August 2013, the Delaware legislature added a new subchapter to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL), allowing corporations to be formed as, or convert to, a public benefit corporation (PBC). [1] A PBC is defined as a for-profit corporation “that is intended to
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June 25, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Reporting, Measuring
Impactful Conversations: An Interview with Rodney Foxworth at Common Future
By: Michael P. Santos
In this episode of Impactful Conversations, Michael Santos, a social-enterprise- and impact-investing associate in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office, interviews Rodney Foxworth, the CEO of Common Future. Based in Oakland, California, Common Future tackles wealth inequality nation-wide by focusing on the needs of communities
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June 10, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Corporate Form
Impactful Conversations: An Interview with Ken Doctor at Lookout Local
In this episode of Impactful Conversations as a part of MoFo Perspectives, Jesse Finfrock, a San Francisco-based associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Social Enterprise and Impact Investing Group, meets with Ken Doctor, the founder of Lookout Local, to discuss how he has incorporated Lookout
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May 29, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Reporting, Measuring
Maintaining Impact Through M&A
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac and Shai Kalansky
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to make capital markets, including venture capital, an uncertain source of financing, founders and boards of impact businesses may increasingly look to M&A and other strategic alternatives to assure their survival. Mergers, business and asset sales, large-scale technology licensing,
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May 29, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Measuring
Impactful Conversations: An Interview with Henrik Jones at Buckhill Capital
In this special shelter-in-place edition of “Impactful Conversations” podcast, MoFo fund formation lawyer Sean Byrne interviews Buckhill Capital General Partner Henrik Jones about collaborating with MoFo to create a new investment term, the Carried Interest by Verified Impact Calculations (CIVIC). The CIVIC links a fund’s carried interest to quantifiable
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Topic Archives: Funding - Financing

Morrison & Foerster Spearheads Launch of California Rebuilding Fund

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac, Linda A. Arnsbarger and Michael P. Santos

Patents to Save the Planet

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac and Otis Littlefield Ph.D.

Impactful Conversations: Discussing Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)

By: Michael P. Santos

Impactful Conversations: A Conversation with Andrew Macintosh at March Fund

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac

ESG Goes Mainstream: How “Return First” PE Funds Can Factor ESG Considerations into Their Investment and Portfolio Management Strategies

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac

DELAWARE LEGISLATURE PASSES AMENDMENT ON PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATIONS

By: Alfredo B. D. Silva and Michael P. Santos

Impactful Conversations: An Interview with Rodney Foxworth at Common Future

By: Michael P. Santos

Impactful Conversations: An Interview with Ken Doctor at Lookout Local

Maintaining Impact Through M&A

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac and Shai Kalansky

Impactful Conversations: An Interview with Henrik Jones at Buckhill Capital