Linklaters’ pan-European environment lawyers advise many of the world’s most significant financial institutions and multi-national companies.
Clients around the world rely on the team’s cutting-edge expertise in the environment issues that will affect global trade for years to come. These include climate change, carbon capture and storage and the scope and application of the Equator Principles, as well as lender’s liability, ethical investment, product stewardship and corporate governance.
Linklaters is one of the few environment law teams with the required combination of technical expertise, regulatory experience, commercial acumen and global perspective to manage environmental risk and smooth transactional undertakings for clients. The environment group is renowned for its stand-alone expertise, but also functions seamlessly with market-leading corporate, tax, financial regulatory and derivatives teams.
Recent environment and climate change transactions include advising
- JPMorgan Chase on the acquisition and integration into its environmental markets business of Climate Care, a pioneer offset business in carbon emission reductions. This included extensive due diligence of the carbon company’s credit portfolio, considerable structuring advice and regulatory risk assessment. It was a landmark deal in the carbon market
- Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited as dealer and lead manager on the U.S.$25 million CER-Linked Notes, due 2013, issued by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It was the first structured note issue linked to Certified Emission Reductions under the Kyoto Protocol
- A multinational oil company on the environmental aspects of the sale of its vinyl acetate monomer and ethyl acetate business at Saltend, Hull to Ineos Europe Limited
- National Grid on the reorganisation of its brownfield portfolio
Climate Change Investment Risk Audit to review readiness for changing world. HSBC, Linklaters and Railpen Investments, today announced the launch of the Climate Change Risk Audit: a tool for asset owners to test the approach of investment managers and advisors to climate change, how it is addressed in their investment process, and how they see its application to their fiduciary duty.
The Risk Audit is available at no charge.
Please click on the link and provide us with your name, company and job title and we will send a copy out to you - climate.audit@linklaters.com.
