As companies throughout the world face increased pressure to engage in efforts related to the SDGs and ESG (environment, social and governance), PwC Legal Japan provides professional support to help you achieve management that leads to sustainable growth and development while also solving important corporate and social issues related to ESG. We work closely with the PwC Japan Group and the PwC global network with around 3,600 lawyers in approximately 90 countries to provide strategic advice, especially from a legal perspective, and provide legal support for implementation.
We provide legal services to support your human rights initiatives. Specifically, we provide legal support for the following six areas:
In connection with the above, we also provide legal advice on human rights-related regulations (including regulations on imports and exports and economic sanctions).
We provide legal support for the transformation of business models to realise sustainability management including support in the following areas:
Business activities inevitably run the risk of conflicting with ESG-related legislations and soft laws. To help you mitigate this risk, as well as achieve affirmative sustainability management, we provide legal support for introducing ESG-related compliance programs, building tailor-made internal risk-management systems, ensuring compliance with guidelines and managing internal training programs, as well as other support for building governance and compliance systems to achieve sustainability management.
We provide legal advice for designing financial instruments based on various legislations and soft laws related to sustainable finance and investment, as well as for structuring, preparing contracts and executing transactions related to project financing for renewable energy power generation facilities.
By leveraging the PwC global network, we also provide other ESG-related legal advice, support for dialogue with shareholders including responses to shareholder proposals and support for dialogue with NGOs, as well as support and represent our clients in ESG litigation.
We identified important human rights issues based on human rights risk mapping that we provided for our client's operation, and assisted our client with the formulation of human rights policies. We provided our client with the research framework and roadmap for human rights due diligence, provided advice on establishing a system for respect for human rights, and supported the implementation of human rights due diligence.
We investigated the contents and trends of various ESG-related laws and regulations and soft law that pertained to our client, both on a global level and for individual countries, and supported the development of a business model to help the client realise a circular economy.
We provided legal support for research on regulations and for structuring and reviewing contracts in connection with an ESG/sustainability-related investment fund.
Partner, PwC Legal Japan
Partner, PwC Legal Japan
Director, PwC Legal Japan
