Environmental, Social and Governance Advisory Services (ESG)

Advisory and technology solutions, including policies and procedures, screening and due diligence, disclosures and reporting, investigations, value creation, and monitoring.

We harness our team’s global subject matter expertise and technology solutions to help clients address ESG challenges and create sustainable value and growth.

ESG criteria, regulation and investing across all industries are evolving rapidly to underscore a more sustainable and equitable future for all. As part of this, companies are actively aligning their purpose, strategies and practices to improve the environment, promote social good and create long-term value. Stakeholders including investors, employees, customers, suppliers, regulators, asset managers and legal professionals are taking greater interest in companies’ ESG approach, track record and credentials to inform their engagement decisions.

Kroll provides an extensive range of advisory support and technology solutions to assist clients to achieve their ESG goals and navigate the changing landscape. Companies engage us throughout various stages of their business lifecycle and ESG journey, leveraging our diverse team’s extensive global experience and insights in governance and risk to:

Improve environmental and social outcomes
Embed ESG across governance and areas of business
Comply with regulation and disclosure reporting
Develop ESG policies
Align goals to standards and frameworks
Reduce risk
Deliver sustainable value and growth

How Kroll Can Help

Our comprehensive ESG advisory and technology services include:

Policies and Procedures

Translating purpose, criteria and the investment strategy into policies and procedures
Design of policies and procedures that align to the ESG investment strategy, comply with ESG regulations and adhere to ESG frameworks
Ongoing advice, support and technology to comply with evolving ESG regulations
Develop ESG Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Screening and High-Level Due Diligence

Cost-effective screening procedures (negative, positive, and thematic) to highlight red flags with prospective acquisitions, customers, and suppliers
Collating basic ESG-related data on portfolios/divisions and investment companies
Developing ESG due diligence questionnaires

In-Depth Due Diligence

In-depth ESG due diligence in accordance with the major ESG frameworks - we utilize the World Economic Forum’s Stakeholders Capitalism metrics, industry-specific tailoring utilizing Sustainability Accounting Standards Board standards and measurement principles from the Value Balancing Alliance
ESG-related due diligence reviews of potential targets or investment companies
Reviews of ESG disclosures in preparation for sell-side due diligence

Deep-Dive Investigations

Supply chain risk assessments
Human rights violation reviews
Culture audits
Integrity and reputational due diligence
Carbon audits

Value Creation Opportunities

Identifying ESG-related value drivers that are built into your value creation agenda
Strategies and plans for delivering value creation
Monitoring against value creation strategy

On-Going Monitoring and Reporting

Proactive, automated monitoring of portfolios/divisions utilizing cloud-based technology for easy access and digestion of key ESG metrics
Early warning alerts using sentiment analysis
Peer and industry benchmarking
Cyber security and incident response
Investor-grade ESG disclosures
Monitoring KPIs

Real Estate Advisory

Support to identify actions for assessing the ESG performance of real estate investments
Support in the management, development and ongoing assessment of real estate funds and single assets to enhance ESG qualities of buildings and their management

Expert Services

Support for ESG disputes including collating data and evidence, working with lawyers and funders throughout the case, determining causation, analysing data or assessing damages, and acting as expert witnesses
ESG advice and insights across the lifecycle of capital projects and assets including defining ESG objectives for business strategies and projects, integrating ESG assurance into projects, assessing organizational ESG performance, developing ESG investment strategies, ESG benefit realisation, and developing internal capability

At Kroll, we believe ESG and good citizenship means protecting our environment, empowering our people to make positive change, promoting inclusivity and diversity, and operating with transparency and good governance. To find out more about our ESG and corporate responsibility practices click here.

ESG Materiality Assessment

Our ESG materiality assessments help organizations identify important sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities, serving as a foundation for stakeholder engagement, transparency and long-term success by prioritizing ESG factors with the most impact on their business.

Portfolios With Better MSCI ESG Ratings Earned Higher Average Returns Globally - Download ESG and Global Investor Returns Study

Kroll examined the relationship between historical returns of over 13,000 publicly traded companies across a variety of geographies and industries and their ESG ratings to determine the correlation of ESG ratings to company performance.

Download the Study

2023 Fraud and Financial Crime Report

Kroll analyzed global data from 400 senior leaders across three continents to gain insights into the current financial crime landscape and learn how technology might stop the threat of economic, crypto and ESG crimes.

Key findings from the report include:

69% of global respondents expect financial crime risks to increase over the next 12 months.
61% of respondents agree that ESG factors should be a consideration for all businesses and part of every financial crime compliance program.
Less than half of respondents are confident in calculating greenhouse gas emissions.
Almost two-thirds of respondents are concerned about ESG as it relates to their supply chains.

Download the Report

Connect with us

David Liu

Regional Managing Director, Asia-Pacific

Environmental, Social and Governance Advisory Services (ESG)

Hong Kong

+852 2884 7707

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Valuation

Valuation of businesses, assets and alternative investments for financial reporting, tax and other purposes.

Valuation

Cyber and Data Resilience

Incident response, digital forensics, breach notification, security strategy, managed security services, discovery solutions, security transformation.

Cyber and Data Resilience

Compliance and Regulation

End-to-end governance, advisory and monitorship solutions to detect, mitigate and remediate security, legal, compliance and regulatory risk.

Compliance and Regulation

Corporate Finance and Restructuring

M&A advisory, restructuring and insolvency, debt advisory, strategic alternatives, transaction diligence and independent financial opinions.

Corporate Finance and Restructuring

Investigations and Disputes

World-wide expert services and tech-enabled advisory through all stages of diligence, forensic investigation, litigation, disputes and testimony.

Investigations and Disputes

Digital Technology Solutions

Enriching our professional services, our integrated software platform helps clients discover, quantify and manage risk in the corporate and private capital market ecosystem.

Digital Technology Solutions

Business Services

Expert provider of complex administrative solutions for capital events globally. Our services include claims and noticing administration, debt restructuring and liability management services, agency and trustee services and more.

Business Services

Environmental, Social and Governance

Advisory and technology solutions, including policies and procedures, screening and due diligence, disclosures and reporting and investigations, value creation, and monitoring.

Environmental, Social and Governance

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