Our firm’s Energy, Infrastructure & Natural Resources group and our Environmental & Planning group advise on the delivery of the Green Deal and Climate Action Plan targets in Ireland.

Having advised clients on over 6GW of renewable energy projects, our renewable energy team is known for its deep specialist local knowledge, being commercially savvy and getting the deal done. It has experience in offshore and onshore wind, solar, battery storage, data centres, energy efficiency, waste to energy and renewable gas, biodiesel, biomass, electric vehicles and green hydrogen.

Multiple teams across ALG advise on all aspects of sustainable finance and investments including:

• Our Asset Management & Investment Funds team advise on designing products with a sustainability focus including UCITS and AIFs that disclose under Articles 8 or 9 of SFDR. The team also provides advice to clients on the actions they can take to mitigate sustainability related risks.
• Our Insurance practice advises (re)insurers, intermediaries and other regulated entities on regulatory expectations and sustainability-related requirements including under SFDR, CSRD, the Taxonomy Regulation, Solvency II, the IDD and MiFID.
• Our General Finance, Financial Regulation, Pensions and Aviation & Transport Finance teams also provide advice on sustainability related matters relevant to their practices.

ESG issues pose material financial, operational, strategic and reputational risk to businesses, while also creating significant opportunities. Boards and senior management teams must ensure systems, processes and controls are in place to help take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks.

ALG has acted for private and public corporations on many local and global transactions with a strong sustainability focus. We have also been advising companies on a broad range of sustainability related requirements including sustainability reporting, disclosure and due diligence obligations. Topics such as supply chain management, circularity, energy management, climate change and biodiversity loss are increasingly areas of focus for businesses.

ALG’s Real Estate and Construction teams have been advising owners and developers on obligations to deliver developments meeting ESG specifications (such as LEED Platinum and BREEAM, the Home Performance Index).

They also advise on retrofitting, green lease clauses, sustainability and supply chain clauses, green lending and the circular economy.

ALG’s Employment team advises clients on D&I, pay transparency and gender pay gap reporting, protected disclosures and other workforce related obligations.

They also advise clients on some sustainability reporting obligations that involve consulting with employees and representative bodies, such as European Works Councils.

Consumers and regulators are increasingly focused on sustainability claims being made by businesses. More transparency and accountability is expected from businesses, which is leading to more complaints, investigations and cases relating to such claims.

ALG’s Disputes and Investigations Group helps clients to put frameworks in place to mitigate the risks associated with making such claims including greenwashing risk.