Sustainability legal services

Sustainability is increasingly core business for our clients. Our Oceania Law team understands this and has developed a legal sustainability services offering that is central to our business. Our EY Oceania Law team can help your business identify and manage risk associated with sustainability ambitions and operations to drive value and ensure your business remains future ready. We provide a set of services that can be customized and integrated to provide knowledgeable legal guidance, operational improvements and scalable support throughout your business and business teams.

How EY teams can help

Our lawyers and legal and compliance departments within our clients’ businesses are uniquely situated at the nexus of law, policy, investor relations, risk management and business operations. Increasingly, we are being called on to play a more proactive role in protecting and creating value across all parts of the organization by helping drive the agenda for the business. This is causing some businesses to ask and expect law and compliance departments to expand their involvement in daily business operations and manage non-legal risks in areas lacking clear regulatory guidance. Already facing concerns around talent, workload and budget, the growing volume and complexity of sustainability work is an additional challenge for many law and compliance departments.

EY Oceania Law multidisciplinary teams include legal, project management and technology professionals who are at the forefront of regulatory developments and well placed to help clients across industries with their growing sustainability needs. A full complement of sustainability legal services is available to law and compliance departments and business teams more broadly and can be customized to help address the highly differentiated sustainability priorities and challenges of your organization.

Legal Advisory Services provide knowledgeable legal advice to help businesses better manage risk and navigate complex and evolving sustainability regulations and issues. EY Legal Function Consulting and Legal Managed Services teams offer strategic guidance and the support of over 1,000 legal professionals to help law departments more efficiently and cost effectively manage growing sustainability workloads.

EY sustainability services for law departments span four key areas :

We also work closely with our EY Law teams around the globe to ensure cross-regional support for our clients for sustainability law issues.

Explore the full breadth of our value-led sustainability and ESG services at EY Sustainability

EY member firms do not practice law where not permitted by local law and regulations.

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