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Wiggin and Dana Seeks Strategic Partners for Newly Launched Wiggin Opportunity Initiative
As part of Wiggin and Danaโs Wiggin Opportunity Initiative, which will provide $10 million in free legal services to minority-owned businesses, the firm is looking to collaborate with strategic partners to identify businesses that would benefit from the initiative.
The firm will offer a variety of services to Wiggin Opportunity Initiative clients to address typical business issues in the areas of employment, real estate, intellectual property, privacy, commercial arrangements, corporate governance, financing, and disputes. The support of โminority-owned businessesโ will be guided by applicable statutes in the various jurisdictions where the firm maintains physical offices or otherwise conducts business. The firm will also consider individuals who identify as part of the LGBTQ community, veterans and members of other groups who have been historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged in the United States or other relevant jurisdictions as eligible individuals under its definition of โMinority Owned.โ
By working with appropriate strategic partners and organizations who can help identify minority-owned businesses in need, the firm will be able to meet its goal, which is to fuel the success of minority-owned businesses, encourage the creation of more, and increase diversity among business leaders in efforts to achieve systemic and lasting change.
Managing Partner, Paul Hughes, said, โWhile born of current events and frustrations, the firm wants to do something that will outlast the spotlight of this particular moment and support long-term improvement in opportunity and equality in our communities. By leveraging the particular skillset of our sophisticated lawyers in a sizeable, sustained and focused effort over time, we hope to make real change in a way that we could not achieve by more modest, incremental efforts.โ
If you think your organization may be able to assist in identifying minority-owned businesses in need of legal services or would like more information on strategic partnerships, ย please contact Wiggin and Dana partners John Doroghazi at jdoroghazi@wiggin.com/203-498-4421 or Robyn Abbate at rabbate@wiggin.com/860-297-3705.
