Mintz, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has been chosen to be the exclusive  legal mentor for teams competing for the 2017 Hult Prize, the world’s largest social entrepreneurial competition. The Hult Prize Foundation is a start-up accelerator and enabler for budding young social entrepreneurs emerging from the world’s universities. The 2017 Hult Prize challenge is Refugees - Reawakening Human Potential focused on “restoring the rights and dignity of people and societies who may be, or are forced into motion due to social injustices, politics, economic pressures, climate change and war.”

Mintz attorneys will provide legal guidance to the eight regional finalists of the international competition as they participate in the Hult Prize Accelerator, a six-week program of intensive entrepreneurial seminars hosted by Hult International Business School’s Boston campus.