Green Hub: The Legal 500’s Global Green Guide Ireland – 2022 Announcement

The Legal 500 and Matheson Announce Global Green Guide Partnership.

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 practises and initiatives.

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

´We are thrilled to be entering this regional collaboration with Irish key player Matheson whose longstanding engagements with various aspects of ESG practice demonstrate a genuine commitment to encouraging action within the industry more broadly. Together we look forward to delving deeper into sustainability work and strategy in the EMEA legal sector’, says Anna Baubock, Editor, The Legal 500 Global Green Guide.

‘Matheson is honoured to be the first Irish law firm to collaborate with The Legal 500 for the inaugural EMEA Green Guide. ESG factors have risen to the top of the board agenda for companies operating across a range of industries and this new partnership builds on Matheson’s contribution and commitment to a green transition. Our multidisciplinary ESG Advisory Group of highly experienced lawyers is at the forefront of supporting clients in meeting their ESG goals; helping them to navigate the complexities of the evolving legal and regulatory requirements. This collaboration with The Legal 500 also reflects our shared commitment to keep ESG at the very core of our business. Matheson’s Impactful Business Programme brings together our CSR, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sustainability and Arts initiatives into one dedicated programme, giving direction to our activities and allowing us to make an even bigger difference to those impacted by them’, says Garret Farrelly, Partner and Chairperson of the ESG Advisory Group, Matheson.

Over the next 12 months, The Legal 500 and Matheson 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 [email protected]

Garret Farrelly, Partner, Matheson [email protected]

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The Legal 500 is the market leading publisher of legal information, analysing the capabilities of law firms across the world for over 33 years. Covering over 150 jurisdictions, The Legal 500 are the most comprehensive referral platform for law firms, barrister chambers, legal recruiters, general counsel, in-house teams and suppliers of legal services, with a comprehensive research programme revised and updated every year, to bring the most up-to-date vision of the global legal market.

Matheson is an Irish law firm with a primary focus on serving the Irish legal needs of internationally focused companies and financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland. Matheson’s clients include the majority of the Fortune 100 companies and it advises 9 of the top 10 global technology brands, 7 of the world’s 10 largest asset managers, and over half of the world’s 50 largest banks. Matheson is headquartered in Dublin and also has offices in Cork, London, New York, San Francisco and Palo Alto. Matheson employs 775 people across its six offices, including 105 partners and tax principals, and 530 legal, tax and digital services professionals. Matheson was named Ireland’s largest law firm by the Law Society of Ireland, following the annual publication in 2022 by the Law Society of practicing solicitor numbers in Ireland in February 2022.