环境、社会与公司治理（ESG）和公共政策

应对全球需求和挑战

监管和立法环境的变化可对企业和商业需求产生重大影响。特别是，环境、社会和治理（“ESG”）领域已被政府、企业和投资者视为决定公司长期可持续性和价值创造的重要途径。随着ESG的发展势头不断增强并日趋成熟进而加速市场转型，近年来，监管机构和行业机构已转为实施新的框架和/或制定政策变化，以保持其经济的相关性并鼓励持续投资。

本所的ESG和公共政策业务部熟悉这些模式转变带来的法律后果和挑战。凭借多个业务领域的丰富公共政策经验和无可比拟的法律知识，我们能够就不断变化的ESG驱动因素、政策框架、立法和法规向客户提供咨询。我们以整体的方式向客户提供建议，以识别即将出现的ESG和公共政策风险，并告知如何管理此类风险，以保持竞争力并被视为负责任的企业公民。

多学科方法

ESG和公共政策问题涉及多个方面。因此，我们采用多学科方法，在本所和地域网络内应用多种备受赞誉的实践，以增强客户的利益。除作为法律倡导者的律师以及在与该地区一些地方政府的立法和行政部门交涉方面拥有丰富个人经验的专业人士外，我们还可联系新加坡任何律师事务所中规模最大、最成熟并具备多年公共政策和监管事务方面咨询经验的内部经济团队。

网络和经验

公共政策、ESG标准和结构在当地继续发展，但许多适用框架均来自国际制度。通过我们在新加坡、缅甸和越南的强大区域办事处网络；马来西亚的联营律所 (Rahmat Lim & Partners) 以及印度西尼亚的联营律所 (AGI Legal)，我们能为ESG和公共政策目标跨越不同辖区并延伸至整个东南亚的客户提供支持，并为其提供一体化无缝对接的服务。

本所经验包括可持续和绿色/蓝色金融；可再生能源领域的投资、合资、兼并和收购；绿色能源和低碳/碳交易项目；环境尽职调查；ESG不当行为、商业和人权合规方面的投诉或争议调查；ESG报告和披露标准及框架；立法程序和起草；政府关系管理；公共政策缺口分析；战略和宣传；公众咨询和政策文件；以及环境、健康和安全合规性。

Meeting global needs and challenges

Shifts in the regulatory and legislative landscape can impact businesses and commercial imperatives significantly. In particular, the areas of environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) have been identified by governments, businesses and investors as an important way of determining a company’s sustainability and value creation in the long term. As ESG gains momentum and matures to accelerate market transformation, regulators and industry bodies have, in recent years, moved to implement new frameworks and/or enact policy changes to keep their economies relevant and encourage continued investments.

Our ESG & Public Policy Practice understands intimately the legal ramifications and challenges that follow these paradigm shifts. We are well-placed to advise clients on the changing ESG drivers, policy frameworks, legislation and regulation through our sophisticated public policy experience and unmatched legal knowledge across multiple practice areas. We take a holistic approach in our advice to clients in identifying ESG and public policy risks on the horizon, and how to manage such risks to stay competitive and be recognised as responsible corporate citizens.

Multi-disciplinary approach

ESG and public policy issues are multi-faceted. As such, we adopt a multi-disciplinary approach in working across the various award-winning practices within our Firm and regional network to advance the interests of our clients. Apart from lawyers who are legislative advocates as well as professionals who have considerable personal experience with the legislative and executive branches of some of the region’s local governments, we also have access to the largest and most established in-house economics team of any law firm in Singapore, with years of experience advising on public policy and regulatory matters.

Network and experience

Even as public policy, ESG standards and structures continue to develop locally, much of the applicable frameworks stem from international regimes. Through our strong regional network of offices in Singapore, Myanmar and Vietnam; associate firms in Malaysia (Rahmat Lim & Partners) and Indonesia (AGI Legal) we are well-placed to support clients whose ESG and public policy objectives transcend jurisdictions and extend throughout South-east Asia, providing them with an integrated and seamless service.

Our experience includes sustainable and green/blue finance; investments, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions in the renewables sector; green energy and low carbon/carbon trading projects; environmental due diligence; investigations into complaints or disputes over ESG wrongdoing, business and human rights compliance; ESG reporting and disclosure standards and frameworks; legislative process and drafting; managing government relations; public policy gap analyses; strategy and advocacy; public consultations and policy papers; and environmental, health and safety regulatory compliance.