The Green Guide first appeared on the mar­ket last year. In this second edi­tion, HVG Law gets a valu­able list­ing.

Each year, the edit­ors of the Leg­al 500 Green Guide con­duct extens­ive research into the know­ledge and exper­i­ence of teams as well as cre­den­tials and recog­nize firms that are strongly posi­tioned on cli­mate change, gov­ernance and sus­tain­ab­il­ity issues and a firm’s con­tri­bu­tion to “green change” and Envir­on­ment­al, Social and Gov­ernance (ESG).

HVG Law LLP has a core ESG team to assist cor­por­ate cli­ents with their envir­on­ment­al sus­tain­ab­il­ity strategies, with par­tic­u­lar expert­ise advising on invest­ments and trans­ac­tions in innov­at­ive green tech­no­lo­gies’

We are obvi­ously proud of this men­tion and of the ESG team that con­tin­ues tire­lessly to raise aware­ness and advise our cli­ents in this area.

 

Review Leg­al 500 Green Guide: EMEA 2024
The spe­cial­ised ESG team at Dutch full-ser­vice law firm HVG Law LLP provides cli­ents with solu­tions con­cern­ing CSRD applic­ab­il­ity, envir­on­ment­al sus­tain­ab­il­ity, ESG due dili­gence, cor­por­ate gov­ernance, and sus­tain­able sup­ply chains.

The firm serves as leg­al coun­sel to EU co-fun­ded clean energy and innov­a­tion fund EIT InnoEn­ergy for its first bank­able energy-as-a-ser­vice pro­ject and busi­ness mod­el. The energy team has advised on mod­el agree­ments, con­tract law, reg­u­la­tion, and the fin­an­cial and oper­a­tion­al lease of sol­ar pan­els. It has also organ­ised stake­hold­er ses­sions on the EaaS pro­ject, with Ams­ter­dam-based energy head Jacqueline Feld speak­ing for the cli­ent at a webin­ar on how the ser­vit­isa­tion mod­el can best sup­port the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor in the devel­op­ment of energy-effi­ciency solu­tions.

A key cli­ent is the Neth­er­lands Asso­ci­ation for Renew­able Energy, for whom the firm col­lab­or­ated with EY and the Design and Innov­a­tion Group to research the cur­rent lead times for Dutch renew­able energy pro­jects and advise on accel­er­a­tion options. By help­ing ensure pro­jects become oper­a­tion­al quick­er, the research is vital in sup­port­ing the gov­ern­ment tar­get for a min­im­um 55% CO2 reduc­tion by 2030. The firm’s study recom­mends a com­bined sub­sidy and per­mit cli­mate, front-end cooper­a­tion with gov­ern­ments, the coordin­a­tion of the par­ti­cip­a­tion pro­cess with gov­ern­ments, and the estab­lish­ment of a ded­ic­ated know­ledge and imple­ment­a­tion centre to increase gov­ern­ment capa­city.

Rot­ter­dam-based cor­por­ate expert and ESG prac­tice co-lead Bart Wolters spe­cial­ises in assist­ing cli­ents regard­ing sus­tain­ab­il­ity-related M&A, com­pli­ance, due dili­gence, com­mer­cial con­tract­ing, cor­por­ate gov­ernance, and CSRD applic­ab­il­ity assess­ments. Wolters also serves on the multi-dis­cip­lin­ary sus­tain­ab­il­ity core team at EY in the Neth­er­lands.

Bart Wolters, Part­ner Cor­por­ate M&A and ESG:
‘’I am delighted to share that HVG Law has been recog­nised by the Leg­al 500 in the EMEA Green Guide for the second time in a row! With our mul­tidiscip­lin­airy approach, togeth­er with EY,  we can make the dif­fer­ence for our cli­ents on sus­tain­ab­il­ity mat­ters! Con­grat­u­la­tions to the entire team for this achieve­ment’.

Read more about the list­ing of HVG Law and oth­er firms: Green Guide – EMEA – 2024 – The Legal 500

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