BCLP receives first-ever recognition in The Legal 500 Green Guide: UK 2024

BCLP has been recognized for the first time in the UK Legal 500 Green Guide 2024.

The Legal 500's Green Guide is the first worldwide guide to recognize the top law firms advising on issues around climate change, governance, sustainability, and their contribution to “Green Change” and ESG. The UK chapter of the Legal 500 Green Guide launched in 2022, and BCLP is one of a small number of law firms that has been inducted into 2024’s second edition.

The guide recognizes BCLP for its “dedicated environmental practice” and “for its work in sustainable finance.” In the real estate space, the firm has been highlighted “for assisting several clients with their response to climate change, covering topics such as energy efficiency in buildings and green leases.”

The firm was noted for its work for a developer “on the installation of electrolysers to create green hydrogen in one of the first hydrogen commercialisation projects – providing hydrogen as a service – in the UK,” led by Partner Mark Richards, regional practice group leader of Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure.

The guide highlights the firm’s work assisting “Qatari Diar with a £400m Green Loan for the development of the Chelsea Barracks residential development,” a deal led by Real Estate Finance Partner Payam Yoseflavi and newly elected Partner Benedict West.

The guide also showcased newly appointed UK Managing Partner Jinal Shah’s work with “RAW Charging in securing funding for its £250m rollout programme for EV charging stations in the UK.”

BCLP has an “established ESG Leadership and Global Practice Team” (now working closely with the firm’s Global Senior Partner) to “internally manage and drive the development of its ESG efforts” across the firm’s operations and services. Among other initiatives, the firm “has achieved a recycling rate of 95% for 2022, and its UK scope 1 emissions have reduced by over 50% in 2022 compared with 2021.”