Travers Smith's has a well-established, cross-firm ESG practice staffed with genuine experts in the field, and was one of the first UK law firms to provide a dedicated ESG legal due diligence offering. Ranked Tier 1 in legal directories for Environmental work, we work with asset managers, lenders and companies in managing the operational, reputational and compliance risks and opportunities associated with ESG factors and seeking to make a positive impact. We understand the complex interplay of business and government as well as the relevance of wider societal, environment and other stakeholder concerns.

We remain one of the largest environmental law Groups in the City, providing various environmental advice including climate reporting advice to the investment sector, addressing environmental risk in major transactions. Clients trust us to deliver robust yet pragmatic legal and strategic advice. We pride ourselves in being able to apply our holistic and in-depth understanding of regulatory and operational risks to our clients’ increasingly complex (and global) corporate structures, funding and equity arrangements, transactions, disputes and supply chains.

The Environment & Regulatory Law group provides a broad UK, EU and international operational regulatory, compliance and risk management service, with recognised market leading credentials in the following specialist areas:

• ESG, sustainability and corporate reporting
• environment and climate change
• health and safety
• chemicals and hazardous substances
• energy and infrastructure
• industrials and manufacturing
• healthcare and other regulated sectors
• products
• crisis response and international litigation risk