How Legal Structures Shape Impact Investing

About this webinar

The session is designed to help organisations clarify capital pathways and build confidence ahead of potential investor engagement. 

This webinar will offer a live Q&A for social enterprises to ask practical questions on legal structures, governance, and impact capital raising - with two of Australia's leading experts in impact investing and legal structuring.

Whether you're preparing to raise capital or exploring debt or blended finance options, you'll leave with increased knowledge and a clearer sense of your next steps.

The Social Impact Hub’s Impact Investing Hub and MinterEllison are developing an Impact Investing Legal Toolkit. Join this webinar to get a sneak preview of the Toolkit.

About the Convenor

Social Impact Hub was founded in 2014 by Jessica Mendoza-Roth. An impact investor and entrepreneur, Jessica was inspired to build an organisation that would kickstart Australia’s nascent social enterprise sector. Starting with a humble pilot program with volunteer university students, the Hub now supports hundreds of social enterprises every year through advisory, education and specialist programs.

The Impact Investing Hub is an initiative of Social Impact Hub developed in collaboration with a range of supporting partners and collaborators.

Keith Rovers

Partner

 

MinterEllison

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Keith Rovers is a Partner at MinterEllison and leads the firm's Social Impact practice and National Pro Bono program, collaborating with social enterprises, not-for-profits, and purpose-driven organisations on legal structures, impact investment, and sustainable finance. Keith chairs several social enterprises, including incubator and intermediary, White Box Enterprises, Australia's largest independent ticketing platform for good, Humanitix and Xceptional Academy, providing employment pathways for neurodiverse people. He also chairs Social Trader's Expert Advisory Group and is a board member of the Westpac Foundation and the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness and in 2023 received an Individual Outstanding Achievement Award at the Australian Impact Investment Awards, recognising his contribution to promoting social impact and driving innovation in the sector. He has extensive corporate and project finance expertise having advised on many major corporate and infrastructure transactions throughout his career. He holds a Bachelor of Economics and Law from Macquarie University.

Jessica Mendoza-Roth

Founder and CEO

 

Social Impact Hub

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Jessica is the Founder and CEO of the Social Impact Hub, which collaborates with social purpose organisations to advise, educate and mobilise capital for impact. Jessica is also the Co-Founder of Wait Mate, a for-purpose organisation empowering parents to delay giving their child a smartphone. She is also an impact investment expert, consulting to private philanthropic foundations, an independent impact investment services firm, and she previously established the Sydney office of Impact Investment Group. Jessica began her career as a Solicitor at King & Wood Mallesons in Sydney. She holds a B.A. and LL.B. (with First Class Honours) from UNSW and a LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where she was the recipient of the R.G. Menzies Scholarship to Harvard, and she studied social entrepreneurship, philanthropy and impact investing.