RPCK Rastegar Panchal

Founding Partners: Chintan Panchal and Keyvan Rastegar

Offices: New York, New York; Denver, Colorado; Vienna, Austria

Founded in 2010, RPCK is an international law firm with a mission to accelerate the growth of a sustainable global economy. RPCK achieves this by partnering with visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and field-builders dedicated to creating a more harmonious relationship between business, society, and the environment on a global scale. The firm's team of impact lawyers, recognized globally, combine legal expertise with deep understanding of the impact investing space to structure innovative transactions that deliver positive social and environmental outcomes alongside strong financial returns.

Impact Investing:

From advising the early pioneers of impact investing to being lead counsel to many of the leading impact investors in the world today, RPCK has been at the forefront of innovation in the impact investing industry since the firm’s founding in 2010.The highly skilled legal team has advised visionary family offices, fund managers and social entrepreneurs on a wide variety of novel, innovative, blended and catalytic capital structures, having completed over $1 billion in impact transactions. The practice consists of a deep bench of senior talent who honed their craft at some of the world’s leading law firms and are highly skilled at building impact-investing concepts into complex financial transactions. Our expertise spans traditional impact, blended finance and venture philanthropy.

Venture Capital and Private Equity:

RPCK has deep and extensive experience representing impact investors in venture capital and other direct equity investments globally, including pre-seed investments, seed stage preferred equity investments, and growth stage preferred equity investments. The firm also represent clients on control stake equity investments, buyouts, joint ventures, and divestments. Direct equity investor clients include DFIs, investment funds, family offices, private foundations, and ultra-high net-worth individuals. RPCK's clients regularly invest across global markets ranging from developed (North American and European) to emerging markets (jurisdictions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia).

Investment Funds and Blended Finance:

RPCK has a wealth of experience that allows them to insightfully work with both the sponsors and investors of private funds. The team is intentionally approaches issues and tailors solutions to deliver positive outcomes to each party and transaction. The firm represents fund managers throughout the lifecycle of their private investment fund, advising them on all aspects from structuring to closing. In addition, RPCK regularly advises family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and fund-of-fund clients. This role requires the team to assist clients with navigating the complexities of investing through reviewing complex agreements, analyzing terms, and negotiating arrangements to address key issues. Lastly, the firm leverages the most innovative concepts to enhance the structure of funds.

Debt Finance:

RPCK's debt finance practice advises an array of deals ranging from cross-border secured lending transactions to innovative impact finance and blended capital structures. The firm represents a variety of clients that includes lenders, borrowers, family offices, private debt funds, project sponsors, foundations, and development finance institutions. This practice holds prominence on private debt strategies for the middle-market that bring financial solutions to innovators and growing enterprises in domestic, developed and emerging markets.

Corporate General Counsel and M&A:

The RPCK team encompasses a wide array of experience that provides a unique approach to deal making. The firm combines creative problem solving, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the unique aspects of each transaction to help achieve game-changing outcomes for our traditional entrepreneur and social enterprise clients. In addition, the team regularly acts as outside general counsel for mid-sized funds, growth companies, portfolio companies and family offices.

ESG Regulation & Enforcement:

RPCK holds a deep expertise in crafting, and advising on, US and EU sustainability law. The firm provides guidance on a broad range of ESG regulatory matters, including supporting the launch of ESG investment products, requirements for integration funds, disclosure obligations, social bonds and sustainability-linked bonds, and ESG compliance.