Clients trust our expertise everywhere ESG impacts business—from assessing compliance gaps to managing real estate risk, leveraging tax relief to implementing ESG policies.
This comprehensive offering and pragmatic approach allows you to stay ahead of regulatory change, manage ESG obligations, measure success and embed meaningful change across your operations.
How we help:
- Conducting ESG audits to assess current compliance, identify gaps and shape effective strategies.
- Navigating climate change obligations, energy efficiency standards and green dispute resolution.
- Advising on all aspects of sustainability in property acquisitions, developments, disposals and lettings.
- Implementing diversity, modern slavery and corporate responsibility policies and codes of ethics for suppliers.
- Embedding ESG governance excellence in corporate decisions, shareholder rights, investment and tax strategies.
- Leveraging sustainability-related tax relief.
- Managing greenwashing claims and related marketing, advertising and reputation issues.
- Helping companies achieve B Corp status, establish social enterprises and charities.
Our experience includes:
- Advising a leading distributor of electric vehicles on a range of competition law risks arising from the establishment and expansion of its business, including structuring distribution arrangements across the EU.
- Advising Ylem Energy, a leading independent power generation specialist, on all of its material customer contract arrangements in the renewables space, including on the development of a solar behind the meter offering.
- Advising a luxury retailer on the preparation of its group modern slavery statement, which involved an in-depth investigation into its underlying policies and processes both in the UK and elsewhere across the group’s international operations.
- Drafting enhanced family friendly policies for an employee benefits management company, including a carer’s leave policy, IVF and assisted conception policy and a menopause policy.
- Serving as lead and sole author on the ‘Study in Support of the Evaluation of the Environmental Liability Directive and its Implementation’ in a consortium led by RPA Europe srl, Italy (under a framework contract with the European Commission).
