The panel will focus on the legal issues framing a broad range of social impact transactions, from structuring considerations for social enterprises to maximize investor appeal, to navigating the regulatory webs of equity crowdfunding, to structuring complex financing vehicles for innovative impact transactions. Sub-topics may include: 1) The pros and cons of alternative legal structures from the perspective of short and long term capital-raising; 2) The relevance and viability of the JOBS Act crowdfunding exemption and other approaches to equity-based crowdfunding for social enterprises; 3) Structuring large-scale impact transactions and appealing to both for profit and non-profit investors.