Insurers, credit institutions or asset managers increasingly need to integrate ESG-related criteria into strategies and internal processes. In future, dealing with sustainability risks and aspects will become an integral part of these companies’ business and risk strategy, remuneration policy, risk management and reporting.

Your challenges

Our solutions for you

  • Creating legal certainty with regard to product design, product liability and product range
  • Checking the consistency between sustainability communication and sustainability reporting
  • Establishing integrated sustainability reporting
  • Leading ongoing communication with regulators and supervisory authorities
  • Support in dealing with legal uncertainties by incorporating regulatory expectations and developments
  • Creating legal certainty for the use of common ESG ratings (divergence, confusion)
  • Support in efficient and consistent corporate ESG data management
  • Conducting legal ESG due diligences
  • In M&A processes: consideration and integration of ESG factors in valuations or in purchase agreements
  • Providing strategic advice to companies in the real economy with a view to future ESG requirements
  • Ensuring companies are “fit for regulatory compliance” – implementing MiFID II requirements, providing training and revising MiFID documentation
  • Support in calculating your green asset ratio (Taxonomy Regulation) or capital adequacy within the meaning of CRR III/Solvency II
  • Advice on managing sustainability risks (implementation of MaRisk) and the necessary documentation
  • Advice on integrating sustainability factors into loan agreements
  • Support for comprehensive (internal) ESG knowledge building: Strategy workshops and thematic workshops on, among other things, green real estate or the circular economy
  • ESG strategy advice based on a legal 360-degree ESG perspective
  • Monitoring and review of ESG integration in the overall corporate strategy and risk management approaches (ensuring legal compliance)