ESG goes mainstream – now a key ingredient in mergers and acquisitions

Top lawyer Rudolph du Plessis explains how the previously marginal measure of a company's Environmental, Societal and Governance impact has gone mainstream.
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In this Rational Radio interview, top lawyer Rudolph du Plessis explains how the previously marginal measure of a company's Environmental, Societal and Governance impact has gone mainstream. The partner in leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills says that buyers (and sellers) are taking ESG into account not just in price determination – but even when deciding to do the transaction at all. – Alec Hogg

People like Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg have got up the noses of US President Donald Trump and others – but their activism is playing a role in slowly getting corporates to be better global citizens, including in South Africa.

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