Sustainable Finance

The evolving ESG financial product range has continued to grow, creating opportunities and challenges for the full spectrum of market participants.

Since the launch of the EU’s sustainable finance legislative package, the wave of regulatory change in EU, the UK and across the rest of the globe continues at speed and without an end in sight. Consideration of ESG factors is now a de facto aspect of corporate reporting, product disclosure, investment decision making and risk management, all of which come together as capital is driven into sustainable economic activities.

As a practice we are supporting banks, asset manager and fund clients, insurers and pension funds and those operating in sectors less familiar with financial services regulation – for example the rating agencies, those trading carbon credits – as they grapple with their obligations in this evolving regulatory landscape.

Linklaters works with clients every day on the full gamut of sustainable finance law and regulation. Our global reach and multidisciplinary approach combines:

• broad, deep and market-leading practice on ESG regulation;
• outstanding financial and prudential regulatory expertise;
• market-leading corporate, banking and capital markets transactional practices; and
• a highly experienced environment practice recognised for its environmental, climate, human rights and governance expertise, delivered as one team, seamlessly, with a consistently pragmatic and commercial approach.