Ropes & Gray has a leading ESG, CSR and Business and Human Rights practice. We offer clients a comprehensive approach in these subject areas through a global team with members in the United States, Europe and Asia. Senior members of the practice have advised on these matters for more than 30 years, enabling us to provide a long-term perspective and depth and breadth of experience that few firms can match.
The practice advises corporate clients, private equity and other asset managers and trade associations across a significant number of industries, asset classes and geographies. Some of the areas on which we advise and assist include:
- Compliance with a wide range of enacted, pending and proposed regulatory requirements “soft law” instruments and industry and NGO codes of conduct, standards, frameworks and guidance, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the SASB and GRI standards and the TCFD framework
- Sustainable investment products
- Impact and sustainable investments
- Green bonds and other sustainable financings
- Regulatory and voluntary disclosures and other communications
- Transactional due diligence, including for private equity sponsors
- ESG integration
- Materiality and salience assessments
- Structuring and implementation of tailored compliance policies, procedures, programs and codes of conduct
- Board advice
- Training
- Benchmarking
- Public benefit entities
- Stakeholder engagement, including shareholder proposals
- Grievance mechanisms
- Special investigations
- Risk mitigation/crisis management
- Litigation, arbitration and National Contact Point proceedings