Our Services
We work with companies in a wide range of industries at various stages of development, from start-ups to established mid-cap companies, looking for top-tier legal support from a dedicated legal team to assist with everyday corporate and transactional tasks as well as complex legal matters as they arise, at a predictable fixed monthly cost. With ImpactGC, our clients get the dedicated in-house-level legal support they need, when they need it.
Our Areas of Expertise
COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS
Well-drafted, enforceable contracts are critical to creating value while protecting your business from undue risk. We bring decades of top-level experience in drafting, negotiating and enforcing commercial agreements across virtually every sector of the economy. Our expert attorneys will bring our experience and creativity to bear to craft agreements that safeguard your business interests and align with your mission and strategic objectives.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE/Board meeting prep
Effective and creative governance structures provide the essential foundation for sustainable growth, protecting your business and empowering and engaging employees and other stakeholders. Our team provides expert counsel to establish governance frameworks that support your mission while fostering compliance, accountability, and ethical practices to reinforce stakeholder trust and enhance operational resilience. We also provide tailored support in preparing for board and shareholder meetings, including agenda setting, documentation, and strategic advice to enhance governance and support informed decision-making and establishment of robust corporate minute books to ensure corporate law compliance.
Sustainability/esg
Sustainability and ESG considerations are increasingly central to long-term value, risk management, and stakeholder trust. We help businesses integrate environmental, social, and governance principles into their operations, governance, and growth strategies in ways that are practical, credible, and aligned with their mission. Our work includes advising on ESG policies and frameworks, board and management oversight of sustainability issues, impact-aligned governance structures, and responsible business practices. We also help develop and review sustainability and impact-related disclosures, marketing claims, and investor communications to reduce greenwashing risk and align with evolving legal and regulatory expectations
Strategic Transactions / M&A
Strategic transactions like mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships can elevate your business, but they come with risk and cost. We bring deep experience across deals of all types and sizes, offering clear guidance, risk management, and efficient support to keep costs down. From letters of intent and due diligence to structuring, negotiating agreements, managing closing, and coordinating tax, antitrust, and regulatory input, we support you through the entire process.
Corporate Structuring / Strategic Growth
Thoughtfully crafted corporate structures and growth strategies are central to scalability and impact. We advise on structuring options and capital strategies that prepare your business for expansion, investment-readiness, and sustained success. We regularly assist clients in conversions from one corporate form to another, redomiciling from one state to another, formation of subsidiaries and other group structures and intercompany agreements to regulate relationships among related entities.
DEI/CSR Policies
DEI and CSR policies are integral to your social footprint, impact and mission. We help you develop and implement policies that reflect your commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and corporate responsibility—strengthening workplace culture and public reputation.
Regulatory Compliance
Compliance is a cornerstone of operational security and risk management. At the same time, the types and scope of laws and regulations affecting businesses is constantly evolving, driven in part by technological changes such as the emergence of AI as a powerful business tool. We help you understand the laws and regulations that impact your business and guide you through the steps to ensure compliance, minimizing risk and maintaining compliance in an ever-changing regulatory landscape.
Renewable energy/climate tech
Renewable energy and climate tech companies operate at the intersection of innovation, infrastructure, and regulation. We support founders, operators, and investors in navigating the legal and strategic complexities of building and scaling climate-focused businesses. Our work includes entity structuring, commercial contracting, project development support, strategic transactions, and investment readiness. We also advise on regulatory considerations, incentive programs, and risk allocation in technology deployment and energy-related projects, helping clients grow solutions that are both commercially viable and aligned with the transition to a low-carbon economy
Intellectual Property
You worked hard to establish a meaningful and valuable brand, and protecting your intellectual property is crucial to maintaining a competitive edge. We work on a broad range of intellectual property and technology transactions, including licensing, SaaS agreements, software development, and assignment IP. We also work with specialized trademark and copyright counsel on trademark and copyright registration and infringement issues.
EMPLOYMENT MATTERS
Effective employment policies that embrace the diverse talents and identities of your team members are essential to a productive, engaged workforce. We offer guidance on a wide range of employment matters, including drafting and reviewing employee handbooks and other policies to ensure employee engagement and empowerment, drafting and negotiating employment agreements, advising on regulatory compliance, and ensuring your workforce strategy aligns with your business values, mission and legal obligations.
Risk Mitigation/Litigation Strategy
Mitigating legal and operational risks is vital for long-term success. We deliver targeted risk management strategies designed to identify, assess, and manage potential exposures, protecting your business while supporting stability and growth. While our advice is always geared toward avoiding and resolving business disagreements before they result in litigation, some legal disputes may be unavoidable. As seasoned general counsels with extensive litigation management experience, our team will help you devise measures to mitigate risk and resolve disputes in the spirit of comity and respect, while zealously protecting your interests.
B Impact Assessment Support
Demonstrating and measuring impact is a critical aspect for B Corps and other impact-driven businesses. As a B Corp that uses the B Impact Assessment (BIA) as an essential tool for constantly improving our impact in pursuit of our mission, ImpactGC can assist you in crafting, reviewing and revising policies and other documentation to support your successful navigation of the BIA and ensure that your commitments to social and environmental objectives are well documented and verified.
Public Benefit Corporation Conversions
Aligning your corporate structure with your impact mission can elevate both your business and your brand. We guide our clients through the process of forming or converting to public benefit corporations (or other forms of benefit entities, such as benefit limited liability companies, where available). We help you draft and file your formation or conversion documents, including your statement of the public benefits that you seek to create, to formalize your commitment to social and environmental goals and to fulfill the B Lab Legal Requirement for B Corp certification.
Corporate Finance / Securities Law
We have substantial experience advising on corporate finance and securities law matters of all types, from early-stage SAFE issuances, seed rounds, convertible note offerings and other funding rounds to later-stage financing transactions. We can help you devise a fundraising and capital strategy to set your business up for success and power your growth. Our advice always maintains a core focus on aligning with your financial objectives and ethical standards.
Impact Investing
Impact investing is a critical element of growing the mission-driven business ecosystem and has a unique ability to generate both financial and social returns. Our firm advises fund sponsors, managers, portfolio companies, and investors on due diligence, structuring, compliance, and transaction strategies, ensuring alignment with purposedriven financial goals. We are active in industry thought-leadership on evolving topics such as impact-linked carried interest, impact-first funds, blended finance, impact reporting, and anti-ESG-boycott laws.
Specialist Counsel Management
Effective legal representation often requires multidisciplinary expertise. After decades of high-level legal practice, both at leading law firms and in senior in-house positions, our team has an extensive network of highly qualified, values-aligned specialist advisors in areas such as tax, ERISA, IP and litigation, who can provide expert support in specific areas to supplement our advice. We work seamlessly with these specialist counsels to provide highly efficient, fully integrated legal support and reduce cost.
Employee Ownership Transitions
Mission-driven founders and business owners are constantly seeking new ways to empower, engage and support their teams. When it comes time for a founder or owner to exit, selling the business to a financial investor or a competitor may not be an acceptable option, as the new owner may end up undermining (or ending entirely) the company’s social or environmental mission. In this environment, selling to the company’s employees is an increasingly attractive option. Whether you opt for an Employee Ownership Trust, an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, a Worker Co-op or some other form of employee ownership, our expert advisors stand ready to guide you through all stages of this transition. We partner with leading consultants who can assist with business valuations, feasibility studies, worker outreach and education and other critical non-legal matters.
