Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation has recognized Morrison & Foerster with its 2022 Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation Award. The Foundation recognizes law firms each year that have supported its work through various means, including providing critical pro bono legal services that strengthen the global social entrepreneurship movement and improve lives and communities around the world.

The recognition follows the firm's collaboration with the Foundation, in which a Morrison & Foerster team drafted a global report that includes recommendations to assist policymakers in accelerating the formation and growth of social enterprises. Morrison & Foerster's involvement was led by Fredo Silva, San Francisco corporate partner and co-chair of the firm's Social Enterprise and Impact Investing Group, and Olga Terets, a San Francisco corporate associate.

The comparative analysis Legal reform as a catalyst for social enterprise: an international social enterprise law & policy report reviews laws and policies across 83 jurisdictions, with insights from dozens of regional counsel who participated in the project, to offer a menu of potential mechanisms that legislators, regulators, and policy makers can adopt to support the development of social ventures in their jurisdictions.

Read the full report to learn more.

The award was presented at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh on April 28th as part of Lex Mundi's annual conference.