Eptalex team has identified a path to implement its skills and experience and offer innovative and qualified legal assistance to support companies and entities to pursue sustainability. This path is developed through a rigorous approach which entails the evaluation of the level of conformity of the activities carried out by companies and entities in compliance with the applicable regulations, thanks to a proven knowledge of environmental, economic and social rules.
Compliance plays a fundamental role in the context of ESG services. We believe that strengthening corporate governance with compliance programs (e.g. anti-corruption policies, whistleblowing systems, data protection and cybersecurity policies) brings concrete improvements in the management and prevention by companies of several ESG, legal and reputational risks.
In particular, the legal services in ESG and green economy sectors are provided by Eptalex teams are:
– ESG (Environment, Social & Governance) sustainability reports, governance and codes of ethics;
– assistance in the establishment of B-corps and benefit corporation;
– assistance in contracting for renewable energy projects at the industrial level (e.g. engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning EPCC contracts, O&M maintenance contracts, efficient performance contracts EPC, ESCO);
– legal advice for residential energy efficiency operations with access to tax benefits;
– legal services for e-mobility operators;
– assistance in new regulations on deforestation and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM);
– assistance in the drafting of an environmental compliance organization, management and control model and supply chain sustainability assessment;
– International, European, national and regional funds and tenders related to sustainable development and renewable energy.