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Regulatory/ESG Change Management in the age of AI for In-house counsel

Run Time
26 Minutes
Learning Method
On-Demand Training
Practice Area
In-House Counsel
Available Until
30/07/2028

Price $145.00

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Description

Simon Colvin and Abhay Srivastava, Partners at Weightmans, discuss regulatory/ESG change management in the age of AI for In-House Counsel. This webinar will focus on:

  • Boardroom insight
  • What are legal professionals using it for?
  • AI use & Scale up - vs climate impacts
  • The AI Trilemma
  • Key challenge: adoption has a hidden cost
  • The role of AI in ESG governance
  • What in-house counsels should do now?
  • Way forward
  • Key takeaways


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Speakers

Simon Colvin

Partner

Weightmans

Simon leads the firm's environmental law team and is also head of the firm's energy and utilities sector. He is also closely involved in the development of the firm’s ESG programme (internal and external).

Simon is client relationship partner for several leading energy, utility, and resource/waste clients. That role gives him unique insight and understanding of the pressures and requirements that operators in those areas are subject to.

He works closely with those clients to understand what is important to them and how we can help them to achieve their goals.

Simon’s recent experience includes:

  • The defence of investigations and prosecutions by the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, and the Marine Management Organisation.
  • An end of waste judicial review application.
  • The export, transport and recovery of resources and fuels into and out of the UK.
  • The interpretation of environmental permit conditions.
  • The disposal of former manufacturing facilities for US corporations for remediation and subsequent development.
  • Advising on the revocation of a hazardous substances consent.
  • The application of MEES and EPC controls to the real estate portfolio of a household name FTSE 100 company.

Simon is a member of CIWM and writes a regular column in their journal, he is a fellow of IEMA and delivers a quarterly legal update webinar for them. He has supported the Broadway Initiative and a group of legal experts who worked with DEFRA in relation to the formation of the new Environment Act 2021.
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Abhay Srivastava

Partner

Weightmans

Abhay is an experienced ESG professional, who has worked across international brands such as Shell, Coca-Cola and IBM over a career span of about 13 years as of now.

Abhay, by qualification, is an engineer and postgraduate in sustainability and carries rich hands-on experience on Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) management systems, sustainability reporting, ESG risk management, and assurance/governance processes setup.

He prides himself as an ESG changemaker who has worked in global settings across culturally diverse and geographically dispersed teams.

Abhay also serves on the board of directors for two early-stage social businesses in the sustainable fashion segment and healthcare.

His key focus with these governance roles has been to shape ESG integrated business strategy and develop disclosure processes for effective stakeholder engagements.
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