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Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and Development Impact Bonds (DIBs)

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Since 2011, we have been at the forefront of advising on SIBs, unlocking new sources of funding to promote social benefit.

We work with a wide range of clients to help develop results-based-finance programmes such as SIBs, driving the creation of key contracts and bringing together the sector’s principal stakeholders to deliver established results. Our clients include specialist private investors, development investment banks, development agencies and foundations. 

We have worked on 60% of the UK’s SIBs and some of our contracts have been adopted by the UK government as sector templates to develop the market. With the model increasingly being adopted globally, we are working on SIBs (and closely related Development Impact Bonds) across different jurisdictions.

To find out more about our work, see the detailed case study here.

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Duncan Kellaway

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Peter Allen

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Paul Davison

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Daniella Jammes

Senior Associate
London

Matthew Dodwell

Counsel
London

Laura Clark-Jones

Senior Associate
London

Greg Garfield

Senior Associate
London

Claire Churchill

Senior Associate
London

Hannah Tye

Senior Pro Bono Lawyer
London, Hong Kong

Andrew Heathcote

Partner
London

Oliver Aikens

Counsel

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