The team excels across all areas of expertise, backed by deep market knowledge and a keen awareness of current trends and changes. Their proactive communication ensures clients are always well-informed.
Legal 500, 2025
ESG at Kinstellar is not a trendy catchphrase. It represents the everyday world of compliance, risk-assessment, litigation, deal-making and proactive strategy building that we’ve excelled at for years. What’s more, our own commitment to ESG values has always been central to our firm culture and sets us apart from our competitors.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have become a critical part of the decision-making process for an increasing number of companies, their boards and investors worldwide.
The growing reach of regulatory requirements in areas such as anti-corruption, personal data protection and the environment combined with an increasing public awareness of ESG-related issues are causing companies in virtually all industries and sectors to re-think their strategies and priorities. Kinstellar’s cross-border expertise helps clients navigate the multidisciplinary challenges of the ESG landscape by mitigating risk and enhancing value.
Our approach to ESG is forward-leaning and draws on our experienced team of regulatory, transactional, and litigation practitioners, who combine in-depth legal expertise with a strong commercial focus to help clients align their activities with the many facets of ESG, including responsible investment, sustainability, and corporate integrity issues.
How can we help?
Kinstellar helps clients to identify and minimise risk.
Environmental
- Air & water quality
- Chemical regulation & contaminated properties
- Circular economy
- Climate change
- Eco-design
- Energy regulatory
- Energy & infrastructure project siting and development
- Environmental implications in transactional work
- Environmental litigation / environmental law violations
- Nature and endangered species protection regulations
- Environmental protection and damage
- Environmental fees & taxes
- Hazardous substances
- Industrial investments
- Waste management, EPR, packaging and eco-labelling & transportation regulatory
- Monitoring of national regulatory developments
- Global compliance
Social
- Accessibility
- Child labour
- Class and interest group actions
- Community engagement
- Compliance
- Conflict and rare earth commodities
- Employee and labour relations
- Equality, diversity & inclusion
- Fair wages and employee benefits
- Forced labour and modern slavery
- Health & safety
- Human rights protection
- Mental health & wellbeing
- Pay gap reporting
- Personal data protection and privacy issues
- Supply chain due diligence and management
- Supply base and competitor litigation
- Whistleblowing / speak-up
- Product liability, mass torts & consumer class actions
- Workforce
Governance
- Application of fraud, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and related legislation
- Corporate governance, diversity, best practices, and transparency
- Bankruptcy fraud, insurance fraud, tax evasion
- Board composition
- Cybersecurity
- Directors' duties
- Executive employment contracts
- Financial fraud, securities fraud, insider trading
- Investigations and enforcement proceedings
- Public and private corruption
- Reputation management
- Sanctions
- Investor relations and public disclosure compliance
Regulatory compliance & litigation
- Monitoring of national regulatory developments
- Corporate sustainability reporting
- ESG compliance and due diligence
- Supply chain regulations and green claims
- Local intelligence
- Government liaison
- Greenwashing and green claims
- Climate change & environment litigation
- Environmental litigation / environmental law violations
- Non-financial reporting, transition plans and sustainability standards
- Dispute resolution
Sustainable finance
- Carbon market
- Carbon pricing
- Climate finance instruments / climate bonds
- Green bonds / loans
- Green technology funds
- Project financing
- Social bonds / loans
- Sustainability bonds
- Sustainability-linked loans / bonds
Key contacts and News, Deals & Insights for this service.