Legal issues in sustainability are developing at pace, raising simultaneously the demands of disclosure schemes, scrutiny on investment decisions, stakeholder activity, governance standards and corporate behaviour (both internally and across value chains). Litigation and regulatory risks continue to evolve and grow in severity. 

We are acutely aware of the challenges this dynamic presents to our clients in an increasingly complex geopolitical and economic environment. By drawing on our deep experience across practices and jurisdictions, we have adapted our long-established, market leading legal services into a strategic toolbox to support our clients. 

Our sustainability and environmental practice helps clients to both manage the risks of the most significant issues relevant to their businesses, and to navigate the opportunities of the transition. With dedicated specialists, and access to the firm’s broader full-service offering, we provide market-leading support across all key areas:

• Governance advice to meet growing demands from investors on strategic transformation, broader risk management, board composition, shareholder activism and more
• Policy and regulatory change monitoring, public affairs and advocacy, with counselling support to translate new obligations into your target setting, strategy and practical implementation and compliance programmes
• Disclosure and reporting support, through our in-depth, live understanding of evolving requirements through work with dozens of the world’s largest organisations on TCFD, CSRD, ISSB, California climate disclosure rules and beyond
• Supply chain risk management and resilience
• Sustainability and environmental litigation defence and crisis response, alongside advising on approaches to managing liability, and minimising legal risk
• Green collaboration and the development of arrangements to pursue sustainability goals in compliance with antitrust law
• Sustainable finance arrangements, products and compliance, and supporting access to capital markets in connection with sustainability objectives
• Transformational M&A aimed at sustainability goals, alongside the management of sustainability issues and EHS liabilities in mainstream M&A, from human rights and climate change to pollution, natural capital and governance
• Development of transition projects, supporting decarbonisation and improved sustainability performance across the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors and beyond

Our sustainability practice is prolific, with active mandates advising a myriad of clients across the globe and experts spread across the EU, UK, US and Asia. Our team works together routinely, sharing best practice, insider knowledge and lessons learned as approaches to new sustainability frameworks and issues develop. With our global footprint, depth of regional expertise, public affairs capabilities and collaborative culture, we are uniquely positioned to meet your needs.