ESG: Climate Action & Sustainable Businesses

We are firmly committed with climate action and sustainable businesses. We do believe that climate action should be urgently taken to reduce carbon emissions compatible with the objectives of the UN Paris Agreement. We actively promote a sustainable approach to business among our diversified client platform for which we are fully engaged in supporting their transition to a sustainable future.
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José María
Buenaventura
Exequiel H.
Crimer
Pablo
Jorge
Guillermo
Lozada
Javier
Luchetti
Mariano L.
Minorini Lima
Ignacio J.
Perelsztein
Alejandro
Rodríguez Galli
Javier S.
Vedoya
Sebastián P.
Winschel
María Lucila

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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) matters are increasingly endorsed by consumers and investors and will dominate the corporate agenda of the next years.

We provide full legal support and advise our clients to manage a full ESG agenda:

Environmental matters require from our clients full awareness and deep involvement when going through their business decision-making process. We normally make part of that process and provide a variety of legal and regulatory solutions.

  • We advise in carbon trading matters, offsetting and mitigation projects.
  • We deeply engage in crisis management of environmental conflicts and litigation.
  • We assist our clients to obtain their licenses to operate and engage with local communities and indigenous people.
  • We assist clients in the implementation of public participation and consultation mechanisms.
  • We conduct in situ legal environmental audits.
  • We collaborate in the implementation of HSE management systems and preventive environmental legal strategies.
  • We assist our clients to conduct Environmental Impact Assessments.
  • We collaborate in designing remediation and industrial reconversion plans.
  • We provide in-house training on legal environmental matters.
  • We help our clients to draft their environmental compliance programs.
  • We advise on environmental matters related to commercial transactions.

Learn more about our environmental expertise here.

Social matters have a direct impact on a company’s business, in particular when they relate to employees, suppliers, customers, and the local communities in which they operate. We deeply engage with our clients on these matters providing legal and regulatory advice.

  • We engage with local communities, indigenous people and other stakeholders.
  • We assist clients in the implementation of public participation and consultation mechanisms.
  • We help companies subject to mandatory human rights rules to conduct due diligence in their value chain.
  • We advise board members and audit committees on compliance regional regulatory trends.

Learn more about our expertise in Corporate Compliance, Internal Investigations and Business Crime, here.

In addition, you can visit our practice of Labor Law & Social Security.

Corporate governance is essential to manage risks and capitalize on investments and opportunities. We provide our clients with the latest local regulations and global trends to a modern governance approach for their corporate decision-making process.

  • We provide support to fulfill multi-step verification process to meet the requirements for B Corporations certification.
  • We advise our listed clients on local corporate governance requirements as regards latest regulatory developments (i.e: OECD-G20 Principles).
  • We engage with our clients in the selection criteria for appointing “independent” board members as per local regulations.
  • We assist our clients to comply with the recent local regulations on gender equality in company boards.
  • We provide advise in connection with executive pay and short/long term compensation schemes.
  • We provide advice on shareholders’ rights regarding ESG matters to prevent potential shareholders’ litigation.
  • We are advisers of choice for Latam governments and international organisations on policy reforms related to bribery and corruption.
  • We conduct internal investigations in Argentina and other Latam jurisdictions over fraud, bribery, antitrust, conflict of interests and other internal policies violations.
  • We conduct ABC (anti-bribery compliance) and AML (anti-money laundering) pre-acquisition due diligence.
  • We advise clients in post-acquisition integration of compliance cultures.
  • We help our clients to design, implement and audit their ABC and AML compliance programs.
  • We advise our clients to ensure that lobbying and other interactions with public officials comply with law and regulations.

Learn more about our Corporate Governance expertise here.

In addition, you can visit our practice of Corporate Compliance, Internal Investigations and Business Crime.