Project: Equalising Deal Terms

Grant: £28,920

This project will focus on the inequality between impact investors and the organisations they invest in, especially in relation to investment terms, processes and legal documentation. Investment terms are often formalised in complex and substantially pro-investor legal documentation. Many impact investees do not have the financial means to obtain their own legal advice, to negotiate or even understand the full implications of entering into such documents.

This project will work together with Bates Wells and a wider group of impact investors and invested organisations to re-imagine and redesign key investment terms, processes and legal documentation so that the models, tools and documents used within impact investing can be better aligned to work in the service of equality.