“The team are strong in this field - they are technically excellent, responsive and practical.” Legal 500 EMEA, Switzerland, Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations, 2024
“Extremely responsive, consistent highest-quality work, substantive precision, very efficient. Would highly recommend” The Legal 500, Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations, 2023
“The team is very business-oriented and pragmatic. Advice is cutting-edge and at the forefront of development in the compliance and ethics areas. They are also very valuable in helping bring the regulations into practice” The Legal 500, Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations, 2022

Expert guides in a fast-changing sustainability landscape

We assist corporate and institutional clients in aligning their business conduct with global and local Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) legislation and regulations, in meeting sustainability requirements and implementing state-of-the-art corporate governance and risk and compliance management systems.

Our expertise includes the implementation of ISO management standards, such as ISO 37000 on governance of organisations, ISO 37301 on compliance management and ISO 37002 on whistleblowing management systems.

ESG litigation experts

As mandatory rules and quasi-binding ESG standards are on the rise, in an ever more fragmented and complex regulatory landscape, so are the risks of civil and criminal liability. Our litigation experts protect clients in a wide range of ESG disputes, arising out of alleged environmental damages, human and labour rights violations, corruption, money laundering and corporate governance failures.

Commitment to business and human rights

Following decades of commitment to business and human rights through the tenets of Public International Law, LALIVE is now a member of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) which sets out 10 guiding principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption and the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The firm is also a founding member of the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association.

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Experience

Regular audit of the ISO 37301 compliance management system of Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency, in line with the Swiss Federal Council’s strategic planning

Advising multiple Swiss listed and non-listed companies on non-financial reporting obligations and supply chain due diligence (child labour, conflict minerals, etc.)

Advising a major international shipping company on sustainability reporting obligations, including on child labour risk in the supply chain

Advising the world’s leading green projects contractor on its dispute resolution clauses for a project in the Middle East that will develop self-contained, low-cost renewable energy, through the development of solar and wind power to achieve carbon neutrality

Reviewing all commercial contracts for a US construction company promoting affordable solutions for the building of sustainable communities in emerging markets by involving local populations, including through on the ground training and local hiring

Acting as legal expert for the Centre for Corporate Reporting on a broad range of diligence and transparency duties under Swiss law and on the coordination between Swiss and foreign sustainability frameworks

Our team

Daniel Lucien Bühr

Partner
Zurich

Lorraine de Germiny

Partner
London

Sandrine Giroud

Partner
Geneva
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