Sustainable Finance

Latham advises issuers, borrowers, underwriters, lenders, private equity sponsors, and project developers on green bonds, sustainability-linked, structured and other financings, as well as investments related to climate change, environmental, social, and sustainable development issues.

The Sustainable Finance Practice guides clients on a broad range of products in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, drawing on the firm’s unsurpassed leadership in capital markets and finance, global team of dedicated environmental law practitioners, trusted investment funds group, and extensive project finance capabilities.

Latham works at the forefront of the sustainable finance market across the globe, including in key emerging markets. Our team routinely advises on European Union guidance and nongovernmental organization commentary. We also maintain a robust network of connections to experts on socially responsible investment at investment banks, consultancies, and stock exchanges.

The practice covers all aspects of sustainable finance, including:

• Executing thematic, sustainability-linked and impact-focused financings in compliance with global, national, and regional norms
• Complying with emerging European Union regulatory standards, United States securities laws, and other reporting regimes
• Deploying best-in-class responses to key environmental and sustainable development risks and opportunities

Investors and other stakeholders increasingly demand that businesses, asset owners, and financial institutions demonstrate how they serve broader environmental and social purposes, fueling the rapid growth of the US$1 trillion+ sustainable finance market. Latham is helping shape this growing market, representing clients on cutting-edge transactions, finding solutions to the hardest legal challenges, and structuring new products to meet the needs of more market participants.

Latham helps clients seamlessly execute all forms of sustainable financings, including bonds, loans, secured green collateral bonds, and other forms of sustainable securitizations, as well as groundbreaking initiatives, such as the world’s first blue bond and social impact investments, regardless of geography, product, or sustainability priority.

Latham regularly works with and advises many industry and regulatory bodies on ESG and sustainable finance matters, including the European Leveraged Finance Association. Latham also participates in a variety of industry groups and sits on the International Capital Market Associations (ICMA’s), Advisory Council to the Green Bond Principles.