Mr. Uche Val Obi SAN, Ngozi Chinwa Ole, Daniel
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1. INTRODUCTION
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations are
now crucial in determining how multinational corporations operate
globally, and they have a big impact on the duties and role of
in-house counsel. For in-house counsel, this means dealing with an
environment where their role expands beyond traditional legal
advice to include ESG strategy integration, compliance with
evolving regulations and oversight of corporate sustainability
initiatives. The latter is the same globally including Germany,
Denmark, Singapore, Greece, Sweden, United States, Oman etc. In
these jurisdictions and across the board, in-house counsel are at
the forefront of understanding how environmental, social and
governance criteria have an impact on regulatory risks, corporate
reputations as well as stakeholder relationships to guide their
organisations towards a complex framework for sustainable business
practices.
