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Business & Human Rights Law - Global Market Leaders
What the Team is Known For
Allens is an Australia-based law firm with noted capabilities in business and human rights matters. The law firm offers:
• Strength in advising on ESG, modern slavery and climate-change related issues, as well as on First Nations rights.
• Expertise in advising multinationals and financial institutions on their human rights commitments, responding to claims and due diligence.
• Sector experience in mining, oil and gas, and finance.
Strengths
Allens is an absolute subject matter expert. The team has very technical knowledge and understands what our business requires.
Allens is highly responsive and capable of distilling complex information into pragmatic advice.
Allens is highly knowledgeable, thorough and adept at handling sensitive matters. The team is also responsive and offers strategic and pragmatic guidance.
Notable practitioners
Rachel Nicolson is based a Melbourne-based practitioner whose expertise includes advising on human rights development and risk assessments, ESG, modern slavery and human rights abuses. She often advises large financial institutions and businesses in extractive industries.
Rachel runs the practice extremely well.
Rachel is very technically good, has a real deep understanding of the matters and brings strategic thinking. Human rights is a very complex area, but she distills it into very simple concepts.
Emily Turnbull is based in Melbourne whose work is focused on ESG as well as commercial litigation. She has experience advising on OECD guidelines and risk assessments and assisting clients with grievance mechanisms and remediation protocols.
Emily is great to work with. She is responsive, smart, and highly personable.
Emily is a standout professional. She combines deep technical knowledge with a commercially astute approach, and she provides practical solution-focused advice.