Impact expertise alongside your legal advice

What you get

• Due diligence and impact in practice

  How organisations map risks and impact in their value chain, and which data and processes that requires: practical knowledge that complements your legal advice.

• Mission-driven structures

  Steward ownership, mission clauses and B Corp: we help clarify what the mission means in practice and how progress can be monitored.

Why we do what we do

Read the film as text

1. We all want to know
2. our place in the world.
3. Thin grey lines join dots into a web.
4. We like to believe that what we do is part of something larger.
5. It is.
6. Together we make our surroundings, our brands, our communities.
7. We shape the work of others, as they shape ours.
8. The web grows dense.
9. We live in one web of cause and consequence.
10. Each path tells a story, part of a larger narrative.
11. A system of meaning.
12. So what is our impact?
13. Whose lives do we touch?
14. What changed? For whom? How much? And what part was ours?
15. Intended or not, for better or worse.
16. Knowing that changes what you do next.
17. A dark line draws a path through the web. Impact management helps you see it, steer it, and use it.
18. A large word: Lead. A purple path runs through the web. Lead with purpose, and fund your mission.
19. A large word: Improve. A green path runs through the web. Learn what doesn’t work and design for better.
20. A large word: Engage. A blue-green path runs through the web. Share your story, and bring others into it.
21. A large word: Account. A blue path runs through the web. State your claim, and prove it.
22. A large word: Discover. A yellow path runs through the web. Find your next impact before it happens.
23. “How do you measure impact?”
24. It sounds hard.
25. It isn’t.
26. It’s not about the how.
27. It’s about
28. Portraits of people fill the screen.
29. A large word: Who.
30. About rights-holders, whose lives are touched.
31. And stakeholders, whose choices shape them.
32. The people stand side by side, at the same height. A wave of colour runs through the web. Every voice, every perspective, equally weighed.
33. The web turns many colours. Pluriform and equivalent.
34. Who determines what.
35. And what determines how.
36. That’s it. No more, no less.
37. We count what can be counted, and listen to the rest.
38. Coloured paths wind across the web. We find the stories that connect the dots, and make sense of the whole.
39. We love our craft:
40. to ask the questions,
41. to measure what matters,
42. and narrate what works.
43. One dark path remains. Let’s reveal your path.
44. The word narrate, with the line: impact in numbers and stories.

What we often hear

• “Clients can’t get their supply-chain due diligence off the ground.”

  Even as the EU Omnibus narrows CSDDD scope, clients may still need due diligence, for example for the OECD guidelines or their customers. We help them set up impact and risk analysis in their value chain, so the process you advise on also works in practice.

• “Clients’ sustainability claims carry legal risk, and I don’t know what facts sit underneath.”

  We assess the evidence behind impact and sustainability claims, so you have a clear picture of what is substantiated before you assess the legal risk.

• “There is a mission in the articles, but nobody can follow whether it is met.”

  We help translate a mission clause into goals and indicators that the board and supervisory board can actually monitor.

• “Directors ask how far their responsibility for sustainability reaches.”

  We help boards understand their organisation’s impact and risks, so the questions about their responsibility you advise on are grounded in facts.

What you may be wondering

• Do you give legal advice?

  No. We provide the facts on impact and due diligence. The legal judgement stays with you.

• Is due diligence still needed after the EU simplification?

  Often it is, for example because of the OECD Guidelines or questions from customers.

• How quickly can you look at a case?

  We answer an expert question within 3 days. For a broader analysis we agree a timeline together.