Technical Assistance
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to ensure that law is used and practiced effectively in countries and across borders to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth. We facilitate sustainable human development and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals through the adoption of rationale international and best practice law, regulation and institutional capacity.
OUR APPROACH
Our approach is to “de-risk” sustainable development through the rule of law.
All investment and the growth it drives comes with risk; commercial and economic law exists in large part to reduce this risk and allow parties to allocate risk according to their tolerance for it. All of ILI’s programming models have risk reduction at their core to help move investment and growth along more smoothly for everyone.
- We empower economies through law reform and building local legal and regulatory capacity to facilitate economic opportunity for all. We approach law reform both from the top at the government level and from the bottom, relying on the people who do business at every level of the economy. The rule of law can’t work without them.
- We support adaptive implementation of international standards and best practice through legal and institutional reform and through building capacity among those who rely on the law. In collaboration with international institutions and local governments, we conduct assessments, prepare gap analyses based on international standards and best practices, formulate strategic recommendations and draft laws, regulations and rules.
- Finally, with observer status at the three principal economic law standards-setting bodies, UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT and the Hague Conference on Private International Law, we help translate need in developing countries into pragmatic international legal and regulatory solutions. We help create the international standard itself.
OUR WORK
In our work, we partner and collaborate with:
Sample Projects
Asset-Based Lending: Legal & Regulatory Reforms
- Client: World Bank Group / International Finance Corporation
- Countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Haiti, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan
- Description: ILI’s team of experts provides technical assistance on private law and financial regulation pertaining to a country’s asset-based lending environment. We conduct research and assessments of legal and regulatory frameworks, analyze local practices, identify gaps against international standards, and offer recommendations on reforms and implementation. Our work contributes to the development and de-risking of asset-based lending markets, the deployment of new financing products like factoring and warehouse receipts financing, builds local capacity and increases financial inclusion.
- Client: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Countries: EBRD member countries
- Description: ILI’s Marek Dubovec, Director of Law Reform Programs, co-authored and co-led a team that developed the substantive content for the EBRD’s New Finance Report: Receivables Finance for MSME Resilience and Economic Growth. The report is expected to incentivize implementation of policies, laws and regulations that facilitate supply chain finance, including factoring.
- Client: UNIDROIT
- Description: Marek Dubovec, Director of Law Reform Programs at ILI was a member of UNIDROIT’s Working Group on Digital Assets and Private Law that developed the Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law, adopted by UNIDROIT’s Governing Council in May 2023. The Principles aim to enhance predictability for transfers, custody and use of digital assets as collateral, including Bitcoin, NFTs, and CBDCs, among others. One of the most important aspects of these Principles are the protections for customers of insolvent custodians of digital assets.
- Client: UNIDROIT
- Description: UNIDROIT’s Working Group on a Model Law on Factoring undertook the project to draft a model law on factoring in 2018 for three reasons: factoring is an increasingly important financing product that expands access to credit (e.g., 2019 global factoring volume stood at 2.9 trillion euros); lack of guidance for countries to develop their legal frameworks on factoring; and the ongoing constraints in access to credit particularly in developing and emerging markets. Marek Dubovec was a member of the Working Group and a Drafting Committee. UNIDROIT’s Governing Council adopted the Model Law on Factoring in May 2023. Marek continues to advise the UNIDROIT’s Secretariat on the Guide to Enactment to the Model Law.
Movable Property Security Rights
- Client: FSD Kenya
- Country: Kenya
- Description: ILI’s Technical Assistance team conducted a comprehensive review of Kenya’s existing secured transactions regime and related acts to ensure effective implementation and address inadequacies that may require legal and policy-related changes. The project was carried out in three phases to modernize the MPSR Act, including proposing amendments to align the law with Kenya’s Warehouse Receipts System and developing secondary legislation.
Increasing Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers
- Client: Asian Development Bank
- Description: ILI’s Technical Assistance team collaborated with the ADB, ADBI, and other experts to develop a Toolkit for policymakers, government officials, and credit providers, providing a comprehensive overview of the options and systems required to increase access to credit for smallholder farmers. The Toolkit was created to increase understanding of available agricultural finance products worldwide and of the legal frameworks that enable them.
- Client: World Bank Group / International Finance Corporation
- Description: ILI co-authored the Knowledge Guide on Crop Receipts Finance with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Guide was developed to support policymakers, regulators, and other stakeholders in designing and implementing legal and regulatory frameworks that enable the use of crop receipts—an innovative pre-harvest financing instrument—to expand access to agricultural credit, particularly for smallholder farmers and agribusinesses.
Secured Finance to Facilitate Sustainable Economic Growth and Improve Food Security
- Client: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
- Description: ILI facilitated a three-day hybrid workshop in Tokyo, Japan in October 2025 for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on ‘Secured Finance to Facilitate Sustainable Economic Growth and Improve Food Security.’ The workshop aimed to educate member economies on how international legal standards facilitate greater access to finance for agriculture; build member economies’ capacities to create enabling legal and commercial environments to facilitate agricultural financing and address food security issues; provide tools to implement legal standards; and increase awareness about various financing and leasing structures and options available to support the agricultural sector. ILI co-authored a study, which was the basis for panel discussions; moderated and participated on multiple panels; and prepared a workshop summary for endorsement by APEC member economies.
Factoring Reform
- Client: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Country: Ukraine
- Description: ILI, in partnership with EBRD, Ukrainian law firm AEQUO, and the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) assisted in the drafting of the country’s law on factoring, which was enacted on June 3, 2025. The law enables MSMEs to use future payment rights (receivables) under supply contracts as a source of financing. This project required close consultation with various partners to develop an appropriate scope based on the needs of the Ukrainian market and factoring industry. Furthermore, the law follows international standards, including the UNIDROIT Model Law on Factoring.
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