ESG Advisory

Across M&A advisory, we embed ESG considerations into the transaction lifecycle, from origination and target screening through due diligence, execution, and marketing. We help clients identify material ESG risks and opportunities early in the process, assess potential valuation impacts, and articulate a compelling ESG equity story to investors. This holistic approach helps protect value, mitigate downside risk, and, where relevant, unlock ESG-driven upside.

Through our strategic advisory, we work closely with boards and management teams to integrate sustainability into core corporate strategy. This includes identifying the most financially material ESG priorities, aligning business models with long-term environmental and social issues, and positioning sustainability as a source of competitive advantage.

In equity financing advisory, we support clients in preparing for IPOs and other equity capital market transactions by strengthening ESG credentials and enhancing disclosures ahead of listing or capital raising. This includes aligning equity stories with investor expectations, addressing potential ESG-related concerns, and ensuring readiness vis-à-vis key ESG frameworks, standards, and rating agencies.

For debt financing advisory, we provide comprehensive support across both labelled and non-labelled instruments. We advise on the structuring of use-of-proceeds instruments such as green, social, and sustainable bonds, as well as sustainability-linked loans and bonds, ensuring alignment with credible ESG KPIs, robust frameworks, and market best practice. We also work with issuers to integrate ESG considerations into conventional debt instruments and broader credit narratives, helping to position ESG as an integral component of credit quality and funding strategy.

Within our investor advisory practice, we help companies understand, and shape, market perception on ESG topics. We conduct ESG perception studies and investor targeting, enabling clients to proactively engage with and attract capital. We also provide advice on AGM votes and preparation, including governance and remuneration proxy advisor and shareholder consultations. In addition, we support the integration of ESG considerations into broader investor communications, including capital markets days, as well as ongoing investor engagement.

Our ESG ratings advisory capabilities, allow us to guide clients through the increasingly complex ESG and climate ratings landscape. This includes supporting inaugural ratings, optimising existing ESG and climate ratings, and strengthening engagement with key ESG rating agencies (e.g., MSCI, Sustainalytics, CDP). Our work focuses on sustainability strategy review, peers benchmarking, enhancing transparency, aligning disclosures with methodologies, and ensuring that companies’ ESG performance is accurately understood and reflected by the market.

Across all these areas, our objective is to deliver financially focused material advice that helps clients navigate evolving ESG expectations and drive sustainable long-term value creation.