The National Law Journal honored Dentons with its inaugural ESG and Community Impact Leaders award. Dentons was selected for its cutting-edge approaches to environmental, social and corporate governance issues and the impact of each legal initiative on communities and stakeholders.

Clients appreciate that Dentons’ ESG platform was designed to help them develop ESG policies and business lines to grow, protect and finance their companies in an environmentally and socially conscious marketplace. Dentons created a first-of-its-kind Global Smart Cities & Connected Communities Think Tank Initiative and hosts monthly roundtables for communities facing urbanization and technology trends outpacing essential structural changes. The Firm’s work in the ESG space includes advising the leading national climate change education and advocacy nonprofit on lobbying, grassroots engagement and ethics matters; working with a client to develop a playbook of ESG policies; conducting trainings for clients’ board members and management on the introduction of ESG-related initiatives; and briefing clients on the status of SEC disclosure rules in regard to ethics and compliance.

Additionally, Dentons lawyers are active in pro bono legal matters and regularly offer services related to social justice and gender equity and women’s rights to legal aid providers, nonprofits and NGOs.

Dentons is committed to leading its peers in environmental sustainability, social impact and governance issues on a local, national and global basis. The Firm’s global multidisciplinary team has experience across a full range of issues that make up ESG, including global supply chain, environmental sustainability, corporate governance, human capital management, investments and finance, national and local regulation, sanctions, compliance, public company disclosures and more.