ESG: Commercial
Our expertise in ESG Commercial matters ensures your business is equipped to navigate the complex landscape of climate change and environmental regulations.
Overview
As climate change intensifies, businesses face increasing pressure to adopt sustainable practices and comply with stricter environmental regulations. Companies must integrate renewable energy and conduct environmental due diligence to manage risks and ensure compliance.
Additionally, incorporating environmental protections into contracts helps safeguard supply chains and reduce environmental footprints. In this evolving regulatory landscape, effective contracting for climate change is essential, enabling businesses to meet legal obligations, mitigate risks, and contribute meaningfully to global sustainability efforts.
Our commercial contracts lawyers offer in-depth commercial expertise and specialised climate and environment experience. We can help ensure your contracts are prepared for whatever disruption climate change brings to your business, including supply chain environmental due diligence and protection, as well as contractual review and risk.
Within our team, we have individuals who specialise in advising on climate clauses and advising sustainability clients on contractual protections and risks.
Featured experience
- Assisting an international manufacturer on climate change clauses in its logistics contracts
- Advising a leading university on a renewable biofueled energy contract
- Working with an insurer on a climate change de-risking offering for the insurer's business customers
- Advising some of the UK's largest real estate clients on electronic vehicle charging infrastructure projects, across major retail sites
- Advising a construction sector client on a software solution which involved an ESG reporting dashboard, enabling the client to monitor energy usage, temperature, and other environmental-related metrics in residential apartment blocks
Our expertise
Disputes and Investigations
Our ESG disputes and investigations team navigates the complex landscape of regulatory pressure, compliance issues, and stakeholder scrutiny, offering expert advice to mitigate risks and protect your business from financial and reputational damage.
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Employment
Our Employment lawyers advise on diversity, equity, inclusion strategies, wellbeing, flexible working, mental health, whistleblowing policies, and gender pay gap reporting for a comprehensive inclusive workplace culture. In Employment law, the primary ESG focus is on social and governance aspects, with environmental concerns also gaining importance.
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Health
Our expert team advises on environmental, social, and governance issues for health and social care clients, from estates considerations to tackling health inequalities and supporting on the governance of sensitive personal health data.
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Insurance
Our experts provide strategic support for ESG-related issues, including environmental incidents, renewables, social issues, and regulatory compliance. We offer comprehensive advice on policy wording, coverage, diversity, and AI. "Informed Insurance" contains insights on ESG topics and climate change litigation. Understanding ESG issues is crucial for the insurance industry.
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Real Estate
Our real estate-focused ESG services help you create sustainable environments, drive value, and embrace investment opportunities, supported by expert advice on a wide range of green and environmental issues.
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Who we are
Why choose DAC Beachcroft?
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
