Social Finance Hot Desk

Prime Advocates pro bono support

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56, Shoreditch High Street, London, England, E1 6JJ

The Social Finance Hot Desk (SFHD) is a unique service, which provides social enterprises with free pro bono from some of the world’s top law firms and Prime. The Social Finance Hot Desk acts as an intermediary between the enterprises and law firms by gathering information from both parties about their needs and preferences. Law firms communicate their preferred types types of pro bono legal work and social enterprises submit specific legal issues or questions through SFHD.

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Story and ethos

Prime Advocates Impact Programmes are funded in part by the Prime Advocates Foundation, a restricted fund operating under the auspices of Prism the Gift Fund, Registered Charity Number: 1099682.

As a social impact market maker, we support clients who are seeking to positively influence any or all of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals including: gender equality, quality education, no poverty, climate action, affordable and clean energy. We create a continuous cycle of positive social change. Revenue generated from our fee-paying clients subsidies the pro-bono/low-bono support we provide to innovative social enterprise start-ups who would otherwise not be supported. Alongside the provision of legal, business and strategic impact consultancy, we accelerate the development of social finance through best practice and knowledge sharing. This work is undertaken through the impact projects of our charitable arm, the Prime Advocates Foundation. All our profits are returned to this Foundation to further our purpose.

We don’t just talk about our passion for social impact, we live it. Prime Advocates is a registered not-for-profit law firm, which means all our profits are reinvested into our impact programmes. The goal of our programmes is to help social enterprises flourish, in the UK and around the world. Using our legal and financial acumen we run a business accelerator for female founders and a pro bono scheme for social enterprises and law firms. We have also developed an education network to teach students about social entrepreneurship and are developing a transformative vocational school in Ghana to improve female unemployment and the garment industry

Prime Advocates (“Prime”) is an expert impact-focused law and ESG advisory firm. Prime provides clear and efficient ESG advisory support, Stewardship and ESG Assurance, verification and oversight services to market leading asset managers, asset owners and hedge funds. ​ Prime is uniquely placed as a leading social finance law firm and specialist ESG advisory firm to provide robust and comprehensive “holistic” ESG assurance oversight. Prime has over 10 years of operating history of progressive social and environmental impact innovation. We provide ESG advice/assurance on just under 669 billion USD AUM of assets. Our staff and senior officers remain at the forefront of responsible investment development and innovation, being instrumental in the mainstreaming of ESG integration in the UK, operating as specialist impact strategists, sustainability finance lawyers, and ESG and Social Finance advisory experts.​ Prime is uniquely structured as an award-winning not-for-profit, aiming to accelerate sustainability in the broader market. Prime has a strong commitment to D&I and continues to support inclusive finance, including the progression of women-led social entrepreneurship and impact. See our impact programmes here for more information on this.

Reviews

Transformative - could not have done this without you Anthony!

Rated 5.0 out of 5
26 April 2024

We are so grateful to Anthony and his SFHD. They support impact businesses and non-profits and linked us with the lawyers at Shearman. As a result we were able to transform our enterprise into a charity, a process that required deep expertise in this area. Without SFHD’s support we’d be at the basecamp with this process. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more Blue Patch members and site visitors who run social and environmental impact projects getting help too.

Jane

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