The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) is the focused and collaborative effort of a global network of lawyers and business leaders to develop new contracts and model laws to combat climate change across a number of jurisdictions.
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This subtopic makes available, with the permission of TCLP, a number of clauses from TCLP’s contract climate playbook across a number of different jurisdictions in areas such as corporate private M&A transactions, private equity and investment transactions, capital market transactions, as well as for inclusion in constitutions, board minutes and shareholder resolutions.
Climate change due diligence questionnaire (Drew’s DDQ) (The Chancery Lane Project): a due diligence questionnaire (DDQ) for buyers to assess a target’s net zero transition readiness resilience and ability to adapt to future climate risks
ESG due diligence questionnaire for capital markets and M&A (share purchase) (Gordon’s DDQ) (The Chancery Lane Project): a DDQ that requires a company to provide information on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy and related risk management
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