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Confluence Philanthropy’s Climate Solutions Collaborative (C2C) Pre-Climate Week Virtual Meeting

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Benjamin Fox will moderate a panel, “A Look at the State of Climate Litigation,” at Confluence Philanthropy’s Climate Solutions Collaborative (C2C) Pre-Climate Week Virtual Meeting.

Benjamin Fox will moderate a panel, “A Look at the State of Climate Litigation,” at Confluence Philanthropy’s Climate Solutions Collaborative (C2C) Pre-Climate Week Virtual Meeting. In advance of Climate Week NYC, Confluence will join industry leaders to discuss legal tools available to the Net Zero investing community. Ben’s virtual session will explore innovative approaches in litigation that can advance climate solutions, including impact-first investing. Speakers participating in Ben’s session include:<ul><li>Julia Jackson, Founder, Grounded Foundation</li><li>Andres Restrepo, Senior Attorney, Sierra Club</li><li>Rob Ryan, CEO, Aristata Capital</li></ul>﻿For details and registration, visit Confluence’s <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pre-climate-week-virtual-meeting-tickets-412017233637">website</a>.  <hr>

A Look at the State of Climate Litigation

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Benjamin Fox is a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s Social Enterprise and Impact Investing Group. Benjamin’s practice focuses on the representation of clients in corporate and transactional matters, with a focus on investors and companies dedicated to pursuing social or environmental goals alongside financial returns.Benjamin counsels startup to late-stage private companies and venture capital and private equity investors, as well as family offices, private foundations, and public charities in early-stage and late-stage financings, mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, joint ventures, and hybrid or “tandem” structuring arrangements between nonprofit and for-profit entities. Benjamin has extensive experience working with investors and companies in the climate technology and infrastructure and sustainability space. He regularly advises clients on creative legal structures with respect to aggregating and deploying capital to maximize impact and returns.Benjamin earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), with a certificate of specialization in both Environmental Law and Energy and Clean Technology Law. At Boalt, he served as an executive editor of Ecology Law Quarterly, a member of the California Law Review, and a judicial extern for the Honorable Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Benjamin received the Ellis J. Harmon Prize for best legal writing in Environmental Law and Policy and was a NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarship recipient for commitment to serve the Asian Pacific American community.Prior to law school, Benjamin worked for the U.S. Department of Energy in Beijing, China and spent a year at Taiwan’s Tunghai University researching renewable energy and urban development policy on a Fulbright Fellowship. He earned his B.A. with distinction and highest honors from the University of Michigan.

Confluence Philanthropy’s Climate Solutions Collaborative (C2C) Pre-Climate Week Virtual Meeting

13 Sep 2022 2:20 PM - 2:55 PM EDT