The ESG practice at RPC, led by DEI and corporate governance specialist Kelly Thomson, also draws upon the CSRD, climate-related disclosures, greenwashing risk and green claims, and environmental regime expertise of Oliver Bray and Ciara Cullen.
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Work highlights
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Environmental: supporting household name clients on a range of strategic and high-profile environmental matters and litigation, including: (1) acting as the sole legal adviser to the Deposit Management Organisation (DMO) the scheme administrator for the UK Deposit Return Scheme; (2) acting for Greenpeace in its defence of a multimillion-dollarclaim brought by Shell; and (3) advising Proposed Class Representative Professor Carolyn Roberts in the groundbreaking Water Cases collective proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).
Environmental: supporting household name clients on a range of strategic and high-profile environmental matters and litigation, including: (1) acting as the sole legal adviser to the Deposit Management Organisation (DMO) the scheme administrator for the UK Deposit Return Scheme; (2) acting for Greenpeace in its defence of a multimillion-dollarclaim brought by Shell; and (3) advising Proposed Class Representative Professor Carolyn Roberts in the groundbreaking Water Cases collective proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).