The Legal 500’s brand new Global Green Guide series puts a spotlight on law firms across the globe for their contribution to a green transition. It explores firms’ work for clients in connection with climate change mitigation and sustainability, while also highlighting their own internal best practices and initiatives.

The EMEA Green Guide is the inaugural edition in the series, featuring key players across the EMEA region.

‘As companies and investors are increasingly meeting external demand for sustainability, some firms have been quick to respond with an according service offering. PLMJ’s responsible business practice belongs to the cohort of leading lights in the space of sustainable financing, impact investing, human rights, and business ethics. We are pleased to be partnering up with the firm for this regional collaboration to delve deeper into sustainability work and strategy in the EMEA legal sector’, says,’ says Anna Baubock, Editor, The Legal 500 Global Green Guide.

‘We are very pleased to enter into the Global Green Guide partnership with The Legal 500, particularly because The Legal 500 has long been known for its exceptional resources, which make it the perfect partner to help the legal sector with its green transition. The way we face human and environmental challenges is inextricably linked to our professional activity. ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) criteria are at the core of PLMJ’s strategy. Social intervention and sustainability are a tradition at PLMJ, and we increasingly strive for greater consistency, greater ambition and greater determination in our commitment to focus on the well-being of our people, in monitoring the social impact of our work, and in supporting our clients and partners.

We are focused on always seeking the best solutions to mitigate the impact of what we do and on ensuring balance in the lives of our people. As a result, we want to go further and proactively contribute to solving social and environmental problems. We believe, above all, that it is always possible to give value back to society without losing sight of the principle of prospering from our work. We base our business ethics on this balance of managing and mitigating our impact on the environment and on society on the one hand, and building a project that is economically sustainable and constantly growing on the other,’ says Bruno Ferreira, Managing Partner, PLMJ.

Over the next 12 months, The Legal 500 and PLMJ will put together a series of virtual and in-person discussions to provide in-house counsel with a forum to share best practice.

Anna Baubock, Editor, The Legal 500 Global Green Guide anna.baubock@legal500.com

Bruno Ferreira, Managing Partner, PLMJ bruno.ferreira@plmj.pt