R K Invest Law, PBC
District of Columbia, United States
March 2022
Legal activities
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
United States
R|K Invest Law, PBC is a law firm organized as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. We advocate on behalf of shareholders, serve as counsel for investment advisers, and provide securities law regulatory defense. We offer legal services that advance social and environmental justice and promote diversity and balance in corporate governance, and work to develop frameworks that promote responsible investing for positive impact. We help companies navigate the securities laws as they develop, including the marketing of products using blockchain technology. We provide regulatory advice, SEC/FINRA compliance counseling and enforcement defense to investment funds, broker-dealers, family offices, investment advisers and other investment institutions and institutional investors. We advocate for clients seeking to develop regulators' understanding of technological advancements and their relationship to legal developments. We help with: * Corporate & Nonprofit Governance * ESG/SRI/Impact Initiatives * Fraud Workouts & Bankruptcy * General Counsel Services * Organic, Biodynamic & Fair Trade * Securities Law Compliance * Securities Litigation/SEC Enforcement * Shareholder Advocacy & Impact Litigation
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 19.0
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 19.0
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Community 32.6
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 6.8
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 25.6
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.