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Environmental, Social & Governance Risk (Law Firms) - Global-wide
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
The Clifford Chance team demonstrate outstanding responsiveness and sharp analytical skills, providing precise and strategic advice tailored to complex situations.
Clifford Chance are top-notch, very on the ball, very commercial in their advice and also very efficient.
The Clifford Chance team are innovative and market leaders in the ESG space.
Clifford Chance has deep knowledge and experience in the subject matter from both a transactional and litigation risk perspective.
Work Highlights
Clifford Chance represented Shell in its appeal against the Hague District Court's ruling that it must reduce its scope 1 emissions, and must use best efforts to reduce its scope 2 and 3 emissions, by net 45% by 2030. The Hague Court of Appeal held that Shell had already set more ambitious targets in relation to scope 1 and 2 emissions than those sought by the claimant NGOs, rendering those claims moot, and further held that insufficient evidence had been brought in relation to scope 3 emissions to impose a duty on the company. Clifford Chance took over the case at the appeals stage and its lawyers did the oral advocacy before the appellate court.
Notable practitioners
Rae Lindsay is a member of Clifford Chance's ESG board and regularly advises clients across different sectors on ESG issues including policy development, due diligence and risk management and dispute avoidance.
Rae Lindsay has broad and deep experience that positioned her to provide the expert advice we needed. I would strongly recommend her.
I really enjoyed working with Rae. She is a real expert in this field and her advice was very strong and clear.