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What the Team is Known For

Linklaters advises on flagship renewable energy projects. It also has strong expertise in business and human rights with a dedicated team experienced in comprehensive supply chain due diligence, corporate/parent company responsibility and international standards on human rights in major transactions.

Strengths

Linklaters are practical and understand your business. They highlight risks to the right extent and you can rely on them to be on top of the details.

The Linklaters team are very well rounded and have very good depth in their expertise.

Work Highlights

Linklaters advised Barclays on ESG-related matters, including new ESG regulation, climate disclosures and sustainable finance mandates.

Notable practitioners

Vanessa Havard-Williams has considerable experience in ESG. She provides key advice to multinational companies on their sustainable finance and human rights programmes, as well as to some of the most prominent asset management firms on compliance with SFDR requirements.
 

Vanessa is highly regarded and has an excellent set of skills for ESG matters.

Rachel Barrett co-heads Linklaters' global ESG practice and has deep experience advising corporates and financial institutions on a wide range of ESG matters.

 

Rachel Barrett is amazing. She is very active and very tenacious in this space.

 

Rachel Barrett is very knowledgeable and her advice goes way beyond the details of the regulations. She understands the field very well and is able to provide a long-term vision and pulse check.

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