The long and short of ESG disclosure

Position DLA Piper’s CGFR team as the go-to legal partner for ESG compliance and litigation work. A campaign to capture high-value mandates from existing clients.

In a field often clouded by abstract theory, we focussed on what clients need to act on now. The campaign tackled fast-approaching ESG disclosure requirements, set to obligate hundreds of thousands of businesses to report on ESG impact for the first time. Description text goes here.

• Proprietary insight: We developed a benchmark study that enabled clients to compare their reporting plans and readiness against peers, calibrate their priorities and find gaps. It doubled as a roadmap—turning regulatory challenge into business opportunity.
  
  

• Co-creation: We worked closely with clients and cross-practice experts to build a narrative that connected ESG risk to commercial success. Sprint interviews helped rapidly test and refine the campaign’s core idea: that the short-term actions companies planned to take on ESG carry far-reaching, long-term reputational and commercial risk.
  
  

• Actionable intelligence: Big-name clients helped set the research agenda and received personalised benchmarking results—transforming them from audience to participant. We created a robust data platform with tailored dashboards by sub-sector, allowing precise targeting and enabling client success.

• Proprietary insight: We developed a benchmark study that enabled clients to compare their reporting plans and readiness against peers, calibrate their priorities and find gaps. It doubled as a roadmap—turning regulatory challenge into business opportunity.
  
  

• Co-creation: We worked closely with clients and cross-practice experts to build a narrative that connected ESG risk to commercial success. Sprint interviews helped rapidly test and refine the campaign’s core idea: that the short-term actions companies planned to take on ESG carry far-reaching, long-term reputational and commercial risk.
  
  

• Actionable intelligence: Big-name clients helped set the research agenda and received personalised benchmarking results—transforming them from audience to participant. We created a robust data platform with tailored dashboards by sub-sector, allowing precise targeting and enabling client success.

• Bigger: Raised DLA Piper’s visibility on ESG disclosure issues in CGFR, expanding client relationships and supporting the firmwide approach to sustainability.
  
  

• Better: Clients praised the campaign’s distinctive, practical insights—surfacing new legal considerations they hadn’t previously explored.
  
  

• Faster: From blank slate to client-tested concept and activation plan in just four weeks.