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Topic: Legislation and Regulation
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A Few Words from the GAIL President – Q4 2025
Michael Ryland, the President of GAIL, reflects on the growing momentum of the impact economy and calls on impact lawyers, through GAIL’s platform and community, to “raise the bar” by innovating, showing the law’s value, and acting as catalysts for systemic change in the face of urgent climate, social, and political challenges.
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Law in an Age of Transformation – Keynote by Marcel Fukayama
This keynote session, on 15 October 2025, addressed the widening gap between traditional legal frameworks and the rapidly evolving social, environmental, economic, and technological conditions shaping the modern world.
AI, Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
Regulation – A Tool or a Barrier for Impact?
This webinar brought together practitioners and thought leaders from across Latin America to explore how legal frameworks can both enable and constrain social and environmental impact.
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I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Patrick Miller, Founding Attorney at Impact Advocates APC
This series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this first article, we hear from Patrick Miller, Founding Attorney at Impact Advocates APC
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
United Nations Global Compact and GAIL – A Keynote Presentation
This session highlighted the strategic collaboration between the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL) and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).
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Post GAIL Summit 2025 London Gathering – What did we learn?
This in-person event provided insights from those present at the GAIL Summit 2025 to our local members and explored some of the main themes that arose from the Summit sessions, which covered cutting-edge issues in impact investing, blended finance, climate law, ESG, corporate governance, philanthropy, purposeful business, and emerging legal models.
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I Am an Impact Lawyer: Getting to Know Rick Davis, Managing Partner at LOHAS
This new series by GAIL North America will spotlight our members across the United States and the diverse ways they are practising impact law. For this article, we hear from Rick Davis from LOHAS.
Benefit Corporations and B Corps, Blended Finance, Business and Human Rights, Business for Good, Climate and Environment, Corporate Governance, Development Finance, ESG, Impact Finance, Innovative Legal Structures, Legislation and Regulation, Mission driven businesses, Philanthropy, Public Interest Litigation, Steward Ownership, Systems Change -
GAIL Impact Showcase 2025: Initiatives and Gallery
GAIL’s 2025 Impact Showcase explores pioneering initiatives advancing the practice of Impact Law worldwide.
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The Legal Landscape in Asia Pacific: Impact Law Updates
We are delighted to share the Q3 Impact Law Update for the Asia Pacific region. Read this for an overview of what is happening in countries throughout the region in APAC.
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Scaling True & Fair
SVI’s True & Fair Project has released a research paper examining how the “true and fair” requirement in EU law is interpreted in Italy, the Netherlands, France and Spain, and what it means for directors, auditors and investors as sustainability issues become increasingly material.