Social Impact
Mission-conditioned capital demands board-grade evidence too. We deliver the same governance rigour to the not-for-profit and impact sector as to a listed entity.
Foundations, sovereign development institutions and large mission-driven enterprises increasingly face governance scrutiny equivalent to a listed entity. We have placed CEO, Executive Director, Chair, Audit Chair and General Counsel benches across global foundations, multilateral development banks and impact-investment platforms.
Foundations, NGOs, multilateral development banks, sovereign development institutions and impact-investment platforms.
Including 4 of the largest 10 private foundations by endowment.
Including IFI-tier development banks and sovereign aid programmes.
Selected mandates delivered at zero-fee under the firm's pro-bono partnership programme.
186 mandates across four regions.
We deliver this sector out of five global hubs — Sydney (HQ), Singapore, London, New York and Dubai — anchored to discrete supervisory regimes. Regional Managing Partners hold the primary client relationship; the global sector lead governs methodology, calibration and quality.
Sydney · Singapore
ANZ philanthropic foundations, ASEAN development, Pacific Islands governance.
London · Geneva · Nairobi
UK-domiciled foundations, Geneva-based NGOs, African development banks.
New York · Washington DC
US-based foundations, multilateral institutions, impact-investment platforms.
Dubai · Riyadh · Nairobi
GCC-funded development, sovereign aid programmes, African philanthropic infrastructure.
What we are calibrated to deliver.
Successor scoring against mission-conditioned capital expectations, beneficiary-attribution rigour and program-officer bench depth.
Chair and General Counsel benches calibrated for MDB safeguard policies, fiduciary frameworks and member-state diplomacy.
Operator benches scored against GIIN IRIS+, Operating Principles for Impact Management and IFI safeguard regimes.
Audit Chair benches calibrated for ACNC, Charity Commission and IRS Form 990 attestation rigour.
The exposure pattern we price into every slate.
Sustained deviation from charitable purpose triggers regulator review under ACNC, Charity Commission and IRS regimes.
Failure of safeguarding governance is now a board-level liability with both civil and criminal exposure in the sector.
Inability to evidence beneficiary outcomes triggers donor-base attrition cascades within 24 months.
Restricted-fund misallocation now a top-three audit-finding category across the sector globally.
Anonymised by code; defensible by record.
Every engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion. The mandates below are surfaced with code, region, remit and outcome — the underlying entity, candidate and counterparty detail remains under confidentiality envelope and is only disclosable on engagement under reciprocal NDA.
Successor installed within 12 weeks under family-trustee discretion; preserved $11.4bn endowment governance posture without restricted-fund disruption.
Replaced GC ahead of member-state safeguard review; cleared review with no findings and preserved IFI peer status.
Re-composed nine-member board across three generations of family trustees; preserved ACNC-attested governance posture.
Cross-jurisdictional appointee with combined IFI and sovereign-fund credentials; first CE with simultaneous OECD DAC alignment.
The regulatory regimes encoded into every successor score.
Each successor in this sector is scored against the regimes below. The skills-matrix is refreshed continuously by the firm's Regulatory Architect team as supervisory expectations migrate — the most recent calibration was applied to every live slate in the current quarter.
Charitable-trust governance encoded into chair and Audit Chair bench requirements.
Impact attestation rigour encoded into operator bench.
MDB safeguard frameworks encoded into Chair and GC successor scoring.
Bilateral and multilateral development governance frameworks.
Brief the Social Impact practice lead.
Every sector engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion and is governed by the regional Managing Partner. Initial briefings are conducted in person or under secure-channel video — never over open email.