Statement on Slavery and Human
Trafficking
This Statement was issued on 28 June 2022 on behalf of White & Case LLP, a New York stateregistered limited liability partnership, White & Case LLP and White & Case (Europe) LLP,
limited liability partnerships incorporated under English law and White & Case EMEA
Services Limited, a private limited company incorporated under English law. This Statement
constitutes the slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ended
31 December 2021 (the “Statement”) for those White & Case entities, and it was reviewed
and approved by White & Case’s Executive Committee on 28 June 2022 in accordance withthe provisions of Section 54(1) of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015.

1.

Introduction

Integrity and service are core values of our Firm. We are proud to be a signatory to the United
Nations Global Compact (“UNGC”). Our affirmation of the ten principles of the UNGC isappended here.
We are committed to responsible business practices protecting human rights. We have adopted
a zero tolerance approach to all forms of slavery and human trafficking (“modern slavery”) in
our organisation and supply chain, and we are focused on identifying, reporting and addressing
any human rights risks or abuses in our operations or our supply chain.

2.

Our business and supply chains

White & Case is a global law firm comprising the four entities referred to above and theirrelated partnerships and associations (the “Firm”). Our business activities centre around theprovision of legal services to clients globally. Please click here for a list of our offices and thejurisdictions in which we operate.
Our key suppliers are businesses that provide the goods and services we need (i) to operate ouroffices; and (ii) to support the provision of legal services to our clients.
Our Responsible Business Working Group (with input from the Global Citizenship, People andProcurement departments and the Firm's General Counsel Office) is tasked with ensuring therisk of modern slavery is minimised in our business and supply chains.

3.

Policies

Our annual report for the UNGC demonstrates our commitment to protecting internationallyrecognised human rights and labour laws. Please click here for our 2022 Communication onProgress for the UNGC.
We have internal policies and procedures that demonstrate our commitment to eradicating therisk of modern slavery in our business and supply chain. These include Procurement, Healthand Safety and Equal Opportunity policies. Our Whistleblowing policy encourages personnel
to report suspected wrongdoing as soon as possible, in the knowledge that their concerns will
be taken seriously, investigated promptly and that their confidentiality will be respected,

consistent with adequate investigation and remediation. These policies are made available toall our employees through our intranet. Furthermore, we support the health and financial needsof our employees at different stages of their lives by providing a flexible benefits programme.
Key progress
Since 2015, White & Case has participated in annual assessments with EcoVadis, the world’s
largest provider of business sustainability ratings that uses a methodology aligned tointernational standards. Each year we submit evidence of our progress on labour and humanrights, ethics, environment and sustainable procurement, which includes sharing relevantinternal policies and results in a scorecard outlining strengths and areas of improvement.
In 2021, our supplier code of conduct was shared more broadly with our supplier base. It wasincluded as part of requests for proposals to vendors and referenced in our standard terms andconditions. In addition, we completed reviews of over 400 vendors in our supplier risk
platform.

Risk assessment and due diligence4.

Our businessAs a professional services firm regulated in the various jurisdictions in which we operate, wehave assessed the risk of modern slavery to be low in our operations. We support public
accountability and transparency and are committed to reporting and regularly reviewing ourassessment to ensure that we are continually improving our practices.
We confirm that we have in place systems to ensure full compliance with relevant labour laws
relating to employee terms and conditions, including pay.
Our supply chain
We expect our suppliers to share our values, but we recognise that there is a risk of modern
slavery in our supply chain, particularly in the higher risk jurisdictions in which we operate.
Therefore, we continue to enhance our robust supply chain compliance programme, which
focuses in particular on suppliers in those higher risk jurisdictions. Our supply chain
compliance programme:•

imposes contractual obligations on key suppliers, with obligations related tocompliance with relevant laws (including those related to modern slavery) andrequirements to impose similar standards on their suppliers;•

requires new key suppliers to provide us with pertinent information to help us determine
the risks to us in entering into a business relationship with them;•requires our key suppliers to provide information on what policies they have in place
to address modern slavery risks in their business and supply chains;•provides for monitoring of the jurisdictions in which our key suppliers operate to
identify any risks and conducting market reviews of key services by a formal tender
process, with an emphasis on the values that matter to us; and2

•provides a contractual right to audit the performance and working practices of our keysuppliers.

Key progress
The Firm’s Business & Human Rights Interest Group continues to support our lawyers inproviding assistance to our commercial clients on the legal and reputational risks andopportunities they face in addressing human rights issues in their operations and supply chains.
This Group provides support to colleagues who have a modern slavery or human rights element
as part of their mandate, and have incorporated human rights due diligence for capital markets
transactions, for example.
Our Responsible Business Working Group undertook a risk assessment of our internaloperations. We identified high risk areas, like real estate, as well as our top suppliers andconducted a review of the contracts we have in place. We completed a risk assessment of ourcurrent top 400 suppliers and implemented appropriate contract language with many of our top
200 suppliers.

5.

Training

The Firm provides a broad range of training designed to increase awareness, knowledge andskills around identifying, addressing and/or preventing modern slavery risks.We provided
Responsible Business – Anti-Bribery, Corruption and Modern Slavery Commitments Training
to select Firm partners and Business Service managers involved in managing our supplier
relationships at the Firm.
Our Business & Human Rights Interest Group has also supported the roll-out of practice area
training on ESG, business and human rights for each of the Firm’s major practice areas, tailoredforeachregion.
For
information
about
thegroup,
pleasevisit
www.whitecase.com/law/practices/business-human-rights.

Next steps

6.

Our priorities for 2022 and beyond are as follows:••

Continue with additional training for Firm partners and employees who are involvedin managing our supplier relationships across our Firm, to enable them to recognise risk
factors more easily.
Proceed with further steps necessary to finalise our Global Code of Conduct.

Oliver Brettle
Designated Member, White & Case LLPMember of Executive Committee3