Sustainability

Our greatest opportunity to influence the world in a sustainable direction lies in what we do best – business law. Achieving change demands that we lead by example and accept social responsibility for that which we are capable of influencing. Mannheimer Swartling has worked with sustainability issues for many years within a framework of three pillars: sustainability in our legal advice, internally within the firm, and in society.

Our legal services are the core of the firm’s business. We have specialist groups with focused expertise in sustainability – but sustainability-related challenges arise throughout all our practice groups and areas of law. It is crucial that our legal advice continues to drive the development towards a more sustainable business sector – both for the stakeholders of today as well as those of future generations.

Our internal sustainability work focuses on issues that are central to both the firm and the wider legal profession, such as skills and development, health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, climate and the environment, and ethics and compliance.

In society, we support selected organisations and activities on a pro bono advisory basis and we participate in various community initiatives to strengthen the wider contribution to a more sustainable society.

Drone image of rocky shore — Mannheimer Swartling views sustainability as an important means of creating maximum value for the firm’s stakeholders.

Sustainability reports

Mannheimer Swartling is subject to the Swedish Annual Accounts Act which has, since 1 January 2017, required us to publish sustainability reports. But we were already reporting on our sustainability efforts long before that. We were early in our industry sector to begin reporting on sustainability. We also joined the UN Global Compact in 2016 and report our sustainability performance each year based on the ten principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

Read our sustainability reports:

Codes of conduct

Mannheimer Swartling and our employees must in all circumstances act in a way that is at once responsible and sustainable. The firm has a code of conduct that lays down the principles governing the firm in its role as employer. It also defines our employees’ role in relation to each other, and the firm’s and our employees’ role in relation to clients, suppliers, business partners and the wider community. The firm also has a code of conduct for suppliers. The supplier code of conduct applies to Mannheimer Swartling’s business relations with our suppliers. It lays out and clarifies the firm’s expectations on suppliers, reflecting our internal expectations.