ESG
Helping you implement and deliver on your ESG Strategy   

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We can support you across all of your core ESG needs

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Helping you deliver your ESG strategy

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Our areas of expertise

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Our services 

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Our International ESG team 

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Helping you deliver your ESG strategy

Which of the below best describes where you'd like support in delivering against your ESG strategy?

Addressing how to assess and implement your ESG compliance strategy across your business.

Understanding obligations on ESG reporting and disclosures.

Understanding ESG opportunity and risk in infrastructure and real estate projects.

Mapping your ESG regulatory obligations across your value chain and updating contract terms.

Identifying ESG issues in corporate and finance transactions.

Our areas of expertise

We're a trusted partner providing legal guidance and practical solutions to drive and build our clients' ESG strategies. 

Environment

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Social

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Governance

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Environment

As law-makers around the world strive to create regulations capable of tackling the huge planet challenges of the twenty first century, most organisations will need to understand new and complex legal obligations which previously didn't apply to them. Our environmental team are experts in corporate sustainability law and can help businesses manage risk and recognise sustainability as an asset to make a positive impact for change.

  • Circular Economy
  • Climate and nature-related financial disclosures
  • EPR, DRS and waste management
  • Eco-design
  • Environmental protection and damage
  • Greenwashing and green claims
  • Hazardous substances and PFAS
  • Natural capital and biodiversity
  • Non-financial reporting, transition plans and sustainability standards
  • Packaging and eco-labelling
  • Plastics
  • Right to repair
  • Sustainable finance and disclosure
  • Sustainable infrastructure, mobility and buildings
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Social

The increased regulation of supply chains and the need to ensure the protection of human capital, wellbeing and communities is an enormous issue for organisations around the globe. Our experienced international team can support businesses as they navigate this fast-moving and complex area of law.

  • Accessibility
  • Child Labour
  • Class and interest group actions
  • Conflict and rare earth commodities
  • Equality, diversity & inclusion
  • Forced Labour and modern slavery
  • Health & Safety
  • Human rights
  • Mental health & Wellbeing
  • Pay gap reporting
  • Supply Chain due diligence and reporting
  • Supply base and competitor litigation
  • Whistleblowing/ Speak-Up
  • Workforce
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Governance

The increased scrutiny on the ethics, standards and systems required by organisations and the demand for greater transparency and accountability demands expert legal advice. Our Governance lawyers work alongside client teams to protect against reputational damage and improve standards and processes.                                                                                                                    

  • Anti-money laundering
  • B-Corp Certified
  • Board Composition
  • Bribery, Corruption and Fraud
  • Corporate Governance
  • Directors' Duties
  • Reputation Management
  • Sanctions
  • Shareholder activism claims
  • Sustainable procurement and anti-trust
  • Systems & Procedures
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Our Services

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ESG Compliance

  • Audit and impact of national and international ESG law
  • Transparency and disclosure support on non-financial reporting and statements, green claims and financial labels
  • Gap-analysis of ESG legal compliance against company activities
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ESG Risk Management

  • ESG claims, investigations and disputes
  • ESG governance and systems
  • Mapping of ESG legal obligations through value chains
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ESG Transactions

  • Due diligence of adverse legal risks 
  • ESG related contracts and terms and conditions
  • Legal delivery of sustainable projects, products and services

Keeping you up to date with ESG law

We can support your business to keep up to date with ESG laws across the globe. We offer both a bespoke horizon scanning platform, tailored to the legal issues that affect your business and covering all markets where you operate. Or our new subscription platform, OC Futurescape, which tracks the legal developments of key ESG legislation in multiple markets.

Our horizon-scanning products:

  • Breakdown the legal obligations into practical steps so that your business knows what actions to take.
  • Uses a network of international lawyers to provide updates with local context and knowledge.
  • Are regularly updated, so you can respond to new obligations pro-actively.

We'd be delighted to speak to you to understand your needs and to provide you with a demo of our platforms.

Contact one of our International ESG team
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