Governance

At ByrneWallace LLP, our Sustainability & ESG team provides expert governance advisory services, ensuring your business adheres to the highest standards of corporate responsibility and ethical practice. We guide clients through the complexities of governance frameworks, helping to build transparent, accountable, and resilient organizations that align with global best practices.

• Advising on applications for B Corp Status including required amendments to company constitutions (to incorporate mandatory B Corp provisions).

• Advising on a full range of governance related issues including directors duties, director independence and conflicts of interest, the role of the board as regards management and oversight, board procedures and board composition (to include matters of diversity and gender).

• Advising on shareholder information entitlements and the obligations of the board as regards interaction with shareholders and reporting obligations.

• Advising generally in relation to ‘CSRD’ (the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) i.e. what it is, who is in scope, the requirements for ‘in scope’ companies (including related time lines) and the impact of CSRD for companies that are not directly ‘in scope’.

• Advising on requirements under various governance codes including those applicable to charities and state bodies.

• Advising state agencies on the EU legislative landscape governing green claims and environmental regulations applicable to their stakeholders.

• Advising on ESG-related due diligence in the context of corporate M&A transactions.

• Advising on ESG sector joint ventures and M&A transactions.