ESG: 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.
Overview
ESG is an opportunity to create a healthy and sustainable built environment, drive value, and increase investment opportunities. We operate at the cutting edge of ESG matters, helping our clients shape a more responsible way of living.
As well as supporting your net-zero carbon strategies, our experienced lawyers, who specialise in planning, residential development, construction, and commercial real estate, can provide tailored ESG advice on a wide range of issues, including:
- Green leases
- Environmental permitting and due diligence
- Contaminated land pollution offences
- Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
- Enforcement and appeals
- Section 106 Agreements
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Flood plain issues, habitats, and conservation
- Producer Responsibility Regime
- Hazardous substances and COMAH regulations
- Planning and environmental-related judicial reviews
- Landowner/occupier liability
- Infrastructure and renewable energy projects
Featured experience
- Assisting a client with turning a derelict shipyard into 1,500 new homes, including a high proportion of affordable housing, PRS units, and commercial and community spaces heated by an efficient district heating system
- Acting for a town council in developing a new £7.1m civic centre on the site of a former community centre, housing a multi-use hall, café, open plan seating area, function rooms, meeting rooms, co-working spaces, a play school, and police station
- Advising multiple clients on BNG, particularly in the context of drafting Section 106 provisions
- Advising providers of affordable accommodation with development, construction and planning advice in support of their ambition to provide quality, low-carbon homes for their tenants
Our expertise
Commercial
Our expertise in ESG Commercial matters ensures your business is equipped to navigate the complex landscape of climate change and environmental regulations.
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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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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.
