Today more than ever, companies, private equity sponsors and financial institutions are faced with mounting legal risks, regulatory requirements, and the need to formulate a strategic approach to sustainability and ESG.
Solution-Based Insights
Our cross-border sustainability and ESG practice is a go-to partner helping leading business organizations navigate an increasingly complex legal landscape.
Highly-Ranked Practice
The Firm and our attorneys are recognized in Chambers USA 2024: Impact Investing, Chambers Crisis & Risk Management 2024: ESG – Global Wide, Chambers Global 2024: Business & Human Rights Law and The Legal 500 Green Guide: United States 2024 – 2025
We help clients navigate a range of evolving needs, including:
- Compliance with a diverse global regulatory landscape and international standards, including reporting and due diligence requirements affecting operations and supply chains (such as CSRD, CSDDD, SFDR, climate-related disclosure requirements in California, UK TCFD, EU Taxonomy Regulation and others)
- For private funds, calibrating sustainability commitments and approaches, advising sponsors on fund formation and investment strategy, balancing investor expectations and requirements
- Due diligence, including global risk and opportunity assessments, human rights impact assessments, and in the context of M&A and financing activities and trade controls
- Developing calibrated policies, procedures and governance structures, including evaluating board practices and effectiveness
- Advising issuers and underwriters on all aspects of green, social and sustainability-linked bonds, loans, and other sustainable financings
- Advising pre-IPO companies on sustainability positioning, strategy, disclosure and communications
- Managing and responding to sustainability-related litigation and enforcement risk relating to green/social washing claims, DEI concerns, antitrust issues and transnational disputes
…and more—often novel—concerns.
We have advised on ESG-related matters involving leading companies and investors including Apax Partners, Apollo, Blackstone, CAVA, Charlesbank, Cisco, Cohesity, Dell, Johnson Controls, KKR, Mars and TPG Capital, among others.