Sustainability in our legal advice

We meet our clients in a shifting playing field where laws are rapidly developing and sustainability issues are of ever greater importance. We constantly refine our legal advice as a result. Sustainability in our advice is the first of three pillars in our sustainability framework.

Our clients operate in a variety of industries and markets in which the sustainability-related opportunities, challenges and risks can vary greatly. Legal issues concerning, for example, climate change, the environment, human rights and sustainable transactions recur in many of our mandates. Our ambition is to be a driving force within the legal services industry in sustainability-related business law with cutting-edge expertise in these issues.

We help our clients to identify their sustainability risks and opportunities from a legal perspective and find solutions with a positive, or less negative, impact on people and the planet. We have many years of experience in providing specialist legal advice on sustainability-related issues and we closely follow the fast evolving developments in legislation and international agreements that may affect our clients.

Sustainability and ESG

Sustainability in the business law context is not a single legal area, but rather a common thread of issues that arise throughout all our practice areas. Our Sustainability and ESG cross-practice framework ensures that sustainability awareness and advisory capacity is embedded across all the firm’s practice groups. The group is a cross-firm collaboration, providing advice in six key areas: energy transition, environment and climate change, business law and human rights, sustainable finance, compliance and governance, and sustainable transactions.

Corporate Sustainability and Risk Management

Mannheimer Swartling’s Corporate Sustainability and Risk Management practice group provides specialist advice on sustainability-related legal issues. The team helps clients to comply with relevant regulations and manage risks and business opportunities, and provides strategic advice.