What a Day !
Last week we held our first ESG Day@LEGAL for our legal colleagues worldwide.
This event marked the beginning of a new chapter in our sustainability journey. It was an amazing day with insightful and quality discussions and brilliant experts and speakers.
In particular, we were honored to have with us our CEO, Jean-Laurent Bonnafé who shared his vision of the strategy going ahead, emphasising the importance of the role of lawyers even more in these troubled times where the rule of law may be challenged. Lawyers should remain close to the business teams, continue to voice-up, connect the dots and develop even further their ability to detect weak signals.
During the day we covered a range of ESG related matters such as:
- The geopolitical context with Trevor Allen
- The businesses’ perspectives for CIB, IPS and CPBS and their challenges and opportunities with Constance Chalchat, Andreas Lambropoulos and Arnaud Algrin.
- The contribution of lawyers on ESG transactions with tips for overcoming certain difficulties and the need to go outside our traditional role of lawyers and innovate.
- A global overview of sustainable finance regulatory developments in the EU, the UK, APAC and the US.
- The evolution of climate-ESG litigation worldwide and emerging trends
We also presented our global organization within LEGAL, our SustainabilityAcademy@LEGAL and all the knowledge sharing tools developed to equip our teams.
We ended our day with the exceptional Frédérique Bedos, founder of Le Projet Imagine: an emotional exchange, full of hope and lucidity, giving us all inspiration to act.
Thank you so much Georges Dirani for your concluding words and for your confidence and drive towards a sustainable legal!
Thank you to our brilliant LEGAL speakers:
Hui Hua, Maya Mehta, Katie Ahern, Ilenia Caliaro, Suzy Vande Wiele, Sébastien Robillot, Clare Doust, Valerie Prou, Aurélie Benucci, Deborah Wang, Tanguy Doré, Stéphanie Monnier, Alice Bonardi, Guillaume Debauve, Nikko Maman, Marie Clémentine DERVAUX ROUTIER, sandrine weiler.
To our amazing organisation team: Marie Clémentine DERVAUX ROUTIER, Anna Baturynska, Guillaume Debauve, Jade Lopez Lorentz and Christelle HEUVET and thank you to the great BivwAk! team for allowing us to organize this high quality event, broadcasted globally! Charles FALLOT and Jean-Philippe Tournier.