Comprehensive Risk Assessment
Given that resources are scarce, companies and organizations in general have to prioritize their ESG initiatives to make sure they mitigate their most significant threats and tap on the most promising opportunities.
Either because of a Governance and Compliance program implementation or due to ESG initiatives roll out and reporting, we assist organizations in implementing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) processes according to recognized frameworks (e.g. ISO 31000 or COSO).
We simplify processes and drive consistency via integration or ERM and the ESG materiality assessment required by different ESG frameworks, saving costs and improving quality and business relevance.
Value Chain mapping and assessment
In order to make sure that businesses and organizations in general focus on the right risks, impacts and opportunities, we help our clients to assess not only their internal processes but also their value chain.
Supply chains are nowadays complex and an unknown supplier of a supplier can expose businesses to adverse effects on ESG commitments, reputational damage or disruption/interruption. Depending on industry and jurisdiction, assessing your supply chain is already required by hard and soft regulations (e.g. Conflict Minerals Regulations, Modern Slavery Act, EU Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Directive, etc.).
Our risk assessment services together with value chain mapping allow our clients to focus on the right counterparts (e.g. raw material suppliers, agents, distributors, customs agents, etc.) and high risk/ high impact processes (e.g. procurement, sales, production, etc.)
Due Diligence
Managing business partners (e.g. suppliers, consultants, agents and distributors) became key for compliance with adequate labor practices and compliance with anti-corruption regulations.
Our consultants have deep firsthand experience in international due diligence, furnishing you with bespoke analysis and insights to make sound business decisions.
Having a due diligence process in place to engage but also monitor on a periodical basis business partners has become a must in several sectors and jurisdictions,
China focused expertise
While ESG-related requirements for Chinese companies are expanding, the evolving social credit system as well as an increasing reach of the Chinese party-state into the private business sector and vis a vis foreign companies, e.g. through the Anti Foreign-sanction law, make ESG awareness, monitoring and disclosure regarding China a complex task.
We offer customized in-depth, systematic background-check of Chinese business partners beyond the general due diligence, focusing especially on factors related to political risk.
We also advise and train companies to do and/or improve their strategies, audit procedures as well as ESG-reporting practices in relationships with their Chinese business partners and stakeholders.