Statement on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
This Statement was issued on 27 June 2024 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 the laws of England and Wales, White & Case EMEA
Services Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales andWhite & Case, an Australian general partnership. This Statement was prepared in consultation withthe above White & Case entities and constitutes the modern slavery and human trafficking statementfor the financial year ended 31 December 2023 (the “Statement”) for those White & Case entities.
References to “we”, “us” or “our” are references to each of those five entities.1
Introduction
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 ourorganisation and supply chain, and we are focused on identifying,reporting and addressing any human rights risks or abuses in ouroperations or our supply chain.
Integrity and service are core values of our Firm. We are proud tobe a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (“UNGC”).
Our affirmation of the ten principles of the UN Global Compact is
set out in our most recent annual Communication on Progress(“CoP”) (which can be found here).

Our business and supply chains
White & Case is a global law firm comprising the five entities
referred to above and their related partnerships and associations(the “Firm”). Our business activities centre around the provisionof legal services to clients globally. Please click here for a list ofour offices and the jurisdictions in which we operate.2
Our key suppliers are businesses that provide the goods andservices we need (i) to operate our offices; and (ii) to support theprovision of legal services to our clients.
Our Global Citizenship Committee has the mission of elevating
the Firm’s commitment to Global Citizenship and unifying ourpeople through a shared sense of responsibility for our local,
regional and global communities. Our Responsible BusinessSubcommittee leads on ESG and sustainability efforts across ouroperations, which includes ensuring the risk of modern slavery is
minimised in our business and supply chain. The Responsible
Business Subcommittee has a core membership of our GeneralCounsels, partners, associates, procurement team members andother business services professionals from across the Firm. In
2022, we appointed a Global Environmental Sustainability
Manager to oversee sustainability practices across the Firm. To
meet its objectives, the Responsible Business Subcommittee
also leverages the knowledge of our ESG and Sustainability
practices, including their awareness of best practice in different
markets around the world. The Firm’s relationships with its
suppliers are directly managed by the Global Procurement team.

Policies
Our annual UNGC CoP demonstrates our commitment to aligning
our operations with the ten principles related to human rights,
labour, the environment and anti-corruption, and to doing
business responsibly. We are participating in the UNGC’senhanced CoP and completed its new standardised
questionnaire for our 2023 submission, which can be read here.
We are also a signatory to the UNGC’s “Statement from Business
Leaders for Renewed Global Cooperation.”
We have internal policies and procedures that demonstrate ourcommitment to eradicating the risk of modern slavery in ourbusiness and supply chain. These include, but are not limited to,the following:

1. Procurement Policy
The Firm’s global Procurement policy provides comprehensive
guidance for all offices, ensuring uniformity in our supplierengagements across the Firm. This policy serves as acornerstone in our efforts to maintain consistency in ourprocurement practices.

2. Anti- Corruption Policy
Our Anti-Corruption policy prohibits bribery and sets theexpectation that Firm personnel must comply with all applicable

1Please note that this statement is currently under consideration for publication on the Australian Modern Slavery Statements Register by the Australian
Attorney-General’s Department.

2In Australia, we employed approximately 170 people as at 31 December 2023.

Anti-Corruption laws. The policy integrates measures aimed atidentifying and preventing bribery and corruption.

in those higher risk jurisdictions. Our supply chain complianceprogramme:

3. Supplier Code of Conduct

The Firm’s Supplier Code of Conduct establishes a frameworkthat we consider important to managing our supply chain and setsout essential guidelines for our suppliers. The Code underscores
the Firm’s stance in relation to modern slavery, human rights, andother applicable laws.

imposes contractual obligations on key suppliers, withobligations related to compliance with relevant laws(including those related to modern slavery) and requirements
to impose similar standards on their suppliers as well ascompliance with our Supplier Code of Conduct;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. This includes
information related to their operations and ownership,environmental practices and others;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 anemphasis on the values that matter to us; and

provides a contractual right to audit the performance andworking practices of our key suppliers.

4. Anti-Money Laundering
Financing Policy&CounterTerrorist

The Firm’s Anti-Money Laundering & Counter Terrorist Financing
policy stresses the significance of the Firm’s compliance withapplicable laws, and outlines our client on-boarding process,client due diligence measures and ongoing monitoring.

5. Whistleblowing Policy
Our Whistleblowing policy encourages personnel to promptly
report suspected wrongdoing, in the knowledge that theirconcerns will be taken seriously, investigated promptly and that
their confidentiality will be respected to the extent possible. This
policy aligns with our commitment to thorough investigation andeffective remediation.
These policies are made available to all our employees throughour intranet and we have a number of training sessions that refer
to, and explain, these policies.

Risk assessment,
remediation

duediligenceandOur businessAs a professional services firm regulated in the various
jurisdictions in which we operate, we have assessed the risk ofmodern slavery in our operations to be low. We support public
accountability and transparency and are committed to reportingand regularly reviewing our assessment to ensure that we arecontinually improving our practices.
We confirm that we have in place systems to ensure fullcompliance with relevant labour laws relating to employee terms
and conditions, including pay, in each relevant jurisdiction.

Our supply chain
We expect our suppliers to share our values, but we recognisethat 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

Anti-slavery and anti-corruption provisions are also included incontract renewals and new supplier agreements. We are in theprocess of reviewing this language and updating it as necessary.

Remediation
If we do uncover a potential case of modern slavery in our supply
chain, members of the General Counsel and Procurement teams
would work with the supplier to understand the situation andinvestigate the claim. Where possible, we would work with thesupplier to remediate the situation. If this is not possible, we would
look to terminate the relationship in line with the relevant
contractual terms.

Key Progress and EffectivenessKey progress
Since 2015, White & Case has participated in annual
assessments with EcoVadis, the world’s largest provider ofbusiness sustainability ratings that uses a methodology aligned
to international standards. Each year we submit evidence ofrelevant internal policies and our progress on EcoVadis’s fourpillars of sustainability: labour and human rights, ethics,
environment and sustainable procurement and, in response,
Ecovadis produces a scorecard outlining our strengths and areasof improvement. We review this scorecard each year andconsider actions to make further progress. We have steadily
improved our scoring every year since 2015.
We have identified our key suppliers and completed acomprehensive review using a third party tool. In addition, we
began a formal process to collect further information related to
our key suppliers and the ESG practices of any new key supplier.
This includes gathering information on their environmental
practices, human rights policies and compliance with relevantlaws.
We have identified the higher risk areas in our supply chain. Risk
is determined both by reference to the categories of services(such as cleaning, catering and construction) and location of thesupplier. This review will help guide our risk assessment process
going forward.

EffectivenessWe regularly evaluate the effectiveness of our modern slavery
related policies, processes and procedures to ensure that they
are continuously improved. The evaluation process will also take
into account developing best practice and feedback from third
party processes such as the UNGC or Ecovadis. Some examplesof output of the evaluation process are listed above and include
further analysis of our higher risk areas.

Training and Awareness
The Firm’s Business & Human Rights Interest Group continues tosupport our lawyers in providing assistance to our commercial
clients on the legal and reputational risks and opportunities they
face in addressing human rights issues in their operations andsupply chains. This Group also provides support on modern
slavery or human rights issues as part of mandates, including
human rights due diligence for a range of transactions.

importance of the Firm’s procurement process and helping people
understand supply chain risks related to human rights andbribery.

Next steps
Our priorities for 2024 and beyond are as follows:Continue with additional training for employees andcontractors who are involved in managing our supplier
relationships across our Firm, to enable them to recogniserisk factors more easily;Proceed with further steps necessary to finalise our Global
Code of Conduct;

Participate in the UN Global Compact’s enhanced CoP;

Continue to monitor and assess the risks in our supply chainand operations;Continue to evaluate our key supplier relationships andexpand our supplier risk assessment process to those
suppliers in higher risk categories and jurisdictions; and

Automate the supplier onboarding process to include morerobust and relevant questionnaire plus enhanced due
diligence checking.1

The statement was reviewed and approved by White &Case’s Executive Committee, as the principal governing
body, on 27 June 2024 in accordance with the provisionsof section 54(1) of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 andsections 14 and 16 of the Australian Modern Slavery Act
2018 (Cth).

The Firm provides a broad range of training designed to increaseawareness, knowledge and skills around identifying, addressing
and/or preventing modern slavery risks.
Our Business & Human Rights Interest Group has also supported
the roll-out of practice area training on ESG and business andhuman rights for each of the Firm’s major practice areas, tailoredfor each region. For information about the group, please visit
https://www.whitecase.com/law/practices/business-humanrights.
In addition, training has been provided to all employees who areresponsible for purchasing decisions. This training focused on theOliver Brettle
Vice Chair on behalf of the Executive Committee
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