From the business challenge of transitioning towards sustainability and its legal implications arises the commitment of Gómez-Acebo & Pombo to contribute from the legal sector to that common endeavor, which is sustainable development. Sustainable development is a challenge with which this law firm is fully committed as an inspiring objective of our long-term growth strategy.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, signed in 2015 by the heads of state and government of United Nations member countries, represents the international commitment to address the social, economic, and environmental challenges of globalization, placing people, the planet, prosperity, and peace at the forefront under the motto “leaving no one behind.” Through its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, the 2030 Agenda designs a framework of action whose progressive implementation is involving and will entail a positive transformation of our economy and society.

This agenda, whose goals are aspirational but not binding, also gives companies the opportunity to highlight their contributions to global sustainability and provides them with the chance to seize new business opportunities associated with the sustainable development agenda. The business world thus faces a challenge, as well as an opportunity, which will affect not only the scope of transparency and information but also the design and adoption of any future decisions regarding management, investment, and financing.

The regulatory and security implications in legal traffic resulting from the implementation and execution of new public policies both in Europe and in Spain aimed at achieving those objectives of economic, social, and environmental sustainability have led us to establish a group of experts whose purpose is to bring together, coordinate, and organize the legal services that this law firm provides to its clients.

Because, if the challenge of sustainability is by itself immense and overwhelming, no less immense is the challenge of ensuring its effective realization with the necessary legal and regulatory security. And that’s where we want to work to offer, in this new political and regulatory framework of sustainability, our commercial, financial, tax, corporate, labor, criminal, environmental, or any other relevant legal practice area advice that is of interest to our clients.