Sustainable Finance &Investment

Contacts
Bryony Widdup,

We are a multidisciplinary global team of lawyers
committed to supporting clients, from both atransactional and a regulatory perspective, bydelivering the tools, products and solutions required tohelp clients overcome challenges and take advantage ofthe many opportunities in this rapidly evolving sector.

LondonIn this relatively new and rapidly developing area,
innovation is a core part of the strategy and the teammeets regularly in order to discuss and design new
methods to help clients achieve their sustainabilityrelated and financial objectives.

Leveraged andAcquisition FinanceCapital Markets
Infrastructure, Energy,Resources, and Projects
Sovereigns
Banking and Finance
Litigation
Financial Services
Climate Change
Corporate Governanceand Public Company
Representation
Restructuring andSpecial Situations
Private Equity
Asset FinancePensions

Against this backdrop, we highlight the importance ofUN Sustainable Development Goal #17. In order tomobilise capital and create an efficient, scalable
sustainable finance ecosystem, partnerships andcollaboration are crucial. Our lawyers are tasked withservicing our clients but also contributing to thedevelopment of the sector. We have collaborated onindustry initiatives globally with the Loan Markets
Association, Borsa Italiana, ISDA, GBBC Digital Finance,
European Leveraged Finance Association, UN Global
Compact and others.
On sustainability strategy, product development,
transactions and risk, we offer innovative solutions
combining market intelligence, guidance, legal
expertise, project management and strategic alignment
to facilitate our clients’ business. An important part ofRita Hunter,
LondonPracticesthis is raising awareness, education and training; ourlawyers in this space are dedicated to sharing expertiseand best practice insights, enabling our clients tonavigate the complex, wide-ranging set of issues when
considering sustainable finance and investment.

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Representative experience
The Central America Bottling Corp. on its inaugural
US$1.1 billion sustainability-linked bond offering.
Wells Fargo Securities and BofA Securities on Hudson
Pacific Properties’ inaugural US$350 million green
bond offering.
Colgate-Palmolive on its inaugural €500 million
sustainability bond offering.
A major international bank in relation to theinterpretation and implementation of the SFDR andother related pieces of ESG related regulation.
Various fund managers on SFDR obligations anddrafting pre contractual and entity level disclosures.
A major asset manager on its ESG reporting obligations
in connection with SFDR, EU Taxonomy and TCFD.
A large German real estate asset manager on its SFDR
product disclosure wording for its Article 8 fund.
A private equity fund on its implementation of theSFDR requirements.
Various infrastructure and real estate funds on theapplication of the SFDR, the EU Taxonomy and assistingwith their SFDR implementation.
An Article 6 real estate fund on its conversion to Article
8 under the SFDR and drafting product disclosures,
including the RTS disclosure template.
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A. (CDP) on the issue of thefirst Italian Sustainability Bond for a nominal amount of

Investment Funds
Real Estate FinanceBanking and Loan
FinanceIndustries
Insurance
Financial Institutions
Private Capital€500m reserved to institutional investors.
A club of banks on the refinancing (by way ofsustainability linked-loan) of the Nuffield Healthgroup's existing term and revolving facilities andrepayment of private placement notes.
Bayerische Landesbank as arranger on the world’s firstplacement of a Blue Social Bond of Deutsche
Kreditbank for the refinancing of the municipal watersupply and sanitation business in Germany.
A leading French investment bank on its ESG structured
products programme including regulatory
requirements and risk management under MiFID II.

Latest thinking and events
NewsEuropean Commission calls on 17 Member States tofully transpose Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Directive (CSRD)
News
UK / EU / International ESG Regulation monthly roundup – July 2024
Insights and AnalysisThe UK FCA’s anti-greenwashing rule: ignore it at yourperilNewsUK / EU / International ESG Regulation monthly roundup – June 2024
Insights and Analysis
Blended Finance – themes from our London Climate
Action Week roundtable
Insights and Analysis
The interplay of the new CS3D with EU privateinternational law: what lies ahead for businesses