For the third year in a row, AKD is ranked in the Green Guide: EMEA (2024), published annually by the legal directory The Legal 500. We are grateful to be featured once again as a Recommended Firm and to be recognised for our commitment to a green transition.
The guide, which launched for the first time in 2022, highlights law firms across the globe for their contribution to a green transition. It explores firms’ work for clients in connection with climate change mitigation and sustainability and highlights their internal best practices and green initiatives.
AKD has been featured since the guide’s inaugural edition.
This year, the guide’s editorial says:
“The multi-disciplinary ESG team at full-service Benelux law firm AKD makes a key contribution to the green transition in the Netherlands, representing leading clients on impactful clean energy, sustainable finance, and green disputes matters.
Energy team head Marjolein Dieperink is advising insurance cooperative Univé on its project to remediate its agricultural-sector clients’ asbestos-afflicted roofs. In exchange, the client will install and operate rooftop solar installations which generate clean electricity to be sold to cooperative members. The firm is assisting in negotiations with contractors, engineers, electricity offtakers, and roof owners.
It also advised EU co-funded clean energy and innovation fund EIT InnoEnergy on a capital raise from major institutional investors, which helps the client accelerate its investments into the energy transition and industrial decarbonisation. It assisted with establishing the fund structure, negotiating the transaction with the 16 new investors, and managing the position of the existing shareholders.
Ahead of litigation before the District Court of Amsterdam, Patrick Haas has been retained by non-profit foundation Stichting Car Claim to represent the interests of European car owners against Volkswagen Group, Renault, Dacia, and Daimler. The foundation, supported by consumer and environmental organisations, is working to secure damages against the companies’ use of emissions defeat devices.
The firm also provides legal services to non-profit organisation The Ocean Cleanup, which works to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It has assisted in establishing whether the client’s floating installation can be considered a vessel, advised on the legislation and regulation applicable to its ocean system, and drafted the Covenant with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.
Through its dedicated ESG strategy team, the firm promotes low-carbon transport and a robust waste management and responsible consumption policy. The firm’s Amsterdam and Rotterdam offices are both located in EDGE sustainable developments, with the Amsterdam office BREEAM Outstanding-certified.”
For the third year in a row, AKD is ranked in the Green Guide: EMEA (2024), published annually by the legal directory The Legal 500. We are grateful to be featured once again as a Recommended Firm and to be recognised for our commitment to a green transition.
The guide, which launched for the first time in 2022, highlights law firms across the globe for their contribution to a green transition. It explores firms’ work for clients in connection with climate change mitigation and sustainability and highlights their internal best practices and green initiatives.
AKD has been featured since the guide’s inaugural edition.
This year, the guide’s editorial says:
“The multi-disciplinary ESG team at full-service Benelux law firm AKD makes a key contribution to the green transition in the Netherlands, representing leading clients on impactful clean energy, sustainable finance, and green disputes matters.
Energy team head Marjolein Dieperink is advising insurance cooperative Univé on its project to remediate its agricultural-sector clients’ asbestos-afflicted roofs. In exchange, the client will install and operate rooftop solar installations which generate clean electricity to be sold to cooperative members. The firm is assisting in negotiations with contractors, engineers, electricity offtakers, and roof owners.
It also advised EU co-funded clean energy and innovation fund EIT InnoEnergy on a capital raise from major institutional investors, which helps the client accelerate its investments into the energy transition and industrial decarbonisation. It assisted with establishing the fund structure, negotiating the transaction with the 16 new investors, and managing the position of the existing shareholders.
Ahead of litigation before the District Court of Amsterdam, Patrick Haas has been retained by non-profit foundation Stichting Car Claim to represent the interests of European car owners against Volkswagen Group, Renault, Dacia, and Daimler. The foundation, supported by consumer and environmental organisations, is working to secure damages against the companies’ use of emissions defeat devices.
The firm also provides legal services to non-profit organisation The Ocean Cleanup, which works to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It has assisted in establishing whether the client’s floating installation can be considered a vessel, advised on the legislation and regulation applicable to its ocean system, and drafted the Covenant with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.
Through its dedicated ESG strategy team, the firm promotes low-carbon transport and a robust waste management and responsible consumption policy. The firm’s Amsterdam and Rotterdam offices are both located in EDGE sustainable developments, with the Amsterdam office BREEAM Outstanding-certified.”