Environment

Linklaters has truly global reach that enables us to provide comparative advice across the world.

Investors, customers, and regulators are increasingly focused on businesses’ environmental impact as the risks of climate change, water shortages, biodiversity loss and zoonotic disease become clearer.

Compliance with regulation at the operational and product level is more relevant than ever to meet stakeholder expectations and to access finance. We have been at the forefront of supporting clients on environmental and climate regulation, designing governance frameworks, compliance systems and implementing crisis response strategies.

We advise on the full range of environmental and health and safety regulation. This includes industrial and chemical regulation, emissions trading and regulation, environmental permitting and decommissioning, and contaminated land. We also advise on product and substance regulation, including packaging and chemical regulation and on the governance and quality systems necessary for compliance.

Our ESG team of lawyers is well known for its standalone expertise, but also functions seamlessly with Linklaters’ market-leading transactional and financial regulatory teams.

We are recognised by independent legal commentators as a top-tier specialist environmental practice that are “truly leaders in the field of environmental law”.