Legal support for all your core ESG needs
Our multi-disciplinary team has all the legal expertise you need to create and manage a responsible business. We'll anticipate the complex challenges that you may face in the short and long term and help you develop and implement an ESG strategy that makes a difference.
As a firm, we take our own ESG strategy very seriously. We won two awards at the Legal 500 ESG Awards 2024, and so we know what great looks like. When you work with us, you can be sure that we'll use our own experience to guide the services we provide.
We advise businesses across Europe, Asia and the US. We have a local and international understanding of the regulatory and policy drivers for ESG and significant expertise across the broader areas ESG touches upon, such as environmental impact, diversity and inclusion and strategic risk mitigation.
Osborne Clarke provides clients with comprehensive advice on environmental law and sustainability issues, assisting with sustainable infrastructure development and net-zero transition solutions. The team is also adept at handling sustainable finance matters related to innovative green financial products.
Environment
Organisations continually 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.
- Our environment expertise
- 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
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.
- Our social expertise
- 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
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.
- Our governance expertise
- 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
ESG compliance
- Addressing how to assess and implement your ESG compliance strategy across your business.
- Understanding obligations on ESG reporting and disclosures.
- Auditing and the 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
ESG risk management
- Understanding ESG opportunity and risk in infrastructure and real estate projects.
- Mapping your ESG regulatory obligations across your value chain and updating contract terms.
- ESG claims, investigations and disputes
- ESG governance and systems
- Mapping of ESG legal obligations through value chains
ESG Transactions
- Identifying ESG issues in corporate and finance transactions
- Due diligence of adverse legal risks
- ESG related contracts and terms and conditions
- Legal delivery of sustainable projects, products and services
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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.
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