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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

For private equity firms and corporations, ESG investing is critical in ensuring sustainability efforts are profitable and lead to accelerated growth. As both strategic advisors and technical consultants, we translate sustainability factors into investment opportunity; enabling you to create value with confidence.

What is ESG investing?

Increase valuation, lower investment risk and protect reputation

Bold thinkers use ESG criteria to create value by:

securing capital during fundraising
reducing investment risk during due diligence
capitalising on opportunities post-acquisition
facilitating information disclosure in exit

What factors do you need to consider when approaching sustainable investing? Watch to learn more.

Environmental, social and governance overview for private equity firms

Create value with the right ESG strategy

Bold sustainable thinking

Private equity firms and corporations can unlock immense value from ESG investing. This starts with implementing an ESG strategy that sets you up for success and maximises return on investment. The trick is knowing how to convert environmental impacts into financial price signals.

As your strategic partner, we translate sustainability factors into investment opportunity. Uniquely positioned as both strategic advisors and technical consultants, we identify, manage and execute ESG initiatives; enabling you to create value with confidence.

Acknowledging that each firm and its portfolio is unique, we can help implement an ESG strategy that will bolster the investment process, create short and long-term value across your portfolio, and strengthen your firm’s reputation.

From fundraising through exit, we can help your firm embed ESG throughout the investment cycle.

How we work

Our ESG advisory service is designed to enhance the visibility of opportunities as well as risks. We draw on market-leading technical expertise to evaluate the potential for adaptation and innovation across a range of scenarios and cost-parameters. Progress toward your strategic objectives is then benchmarked and reported in alignment with the latest definitions and disclosure standards.

Value creation in ESG relies on creative and judicious application of technical insight. At RPS we combine those insights through a strategic lens – allowing unified delivery of otherwise segregated economic, environmental and social impacts. Joined-up solutions are part of our ethos. We make complex easy.

How can we help

ESG management throughout the investment cycle

Fundraising

ESG policy and implementation frameworks: - Satisfy investors' ESG expectations - Enhance relationships with new and existing investors - Secure access to funding - Create a competitive advantage

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ESG during Fundraising

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Due Diligence

Conduct an ESG review to: - Eliminate deal-issue threats - Highlight deficient standards - Pinpoint key ESG opportunities for improvement - Highlight customers' sustainability expectations - Identify regulatory liability

ESG Due Diligence

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Ownership

Implement ESG initiatives to: - Increase ROI and market share - Reduce expenses and liability - Improve employee retention - Meet customers' and investors' sustainability expectations - Enhance firm and portfolio company reputation

ESG during Ownership

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Exit

Communicating ESG accomplishments can help: - Highlight growth opportunities - Increase brand value - Establish competitive advantage - Meet public investors' expectations

ESG during Exit

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ESG consulting services

Vision to value

We are uniquely positioned to help firms identify innovative opportunities and incorporate ESG solutions into the investment process by:

Clarifying an internal ESG vision, mission statement, and priorities
Identifying investors’ motivations and expectations during fundraising
Creating an ESG policy and implementation framework
Constructing a customized ESG action plan to fit present and future goals

Defining ESG metrics to measure the ESG performance across the portfolio
Developing industry trend reviews and risk assessments
Providing tailored ESG training

ESG: Translating purpose into plans, actions and accountabilities
- Topaz Simply
- Kellie Fleming
- |
- North America
CEOs from the largest US corporations redefine sustainability purpose to benefit all Americans

But what does this mean for big, or small, business?

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Disrupting the blue ocean: impact investment and ESG
- Matt Farnsworth
- |
- UK
Article originally published in Real Deals magazine May 2020.

Matt Farnsworth, Technical Director, talks ESG and impact investment and adding value through sustainable business innovation.

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Investment analysis

Our ESG experts help enhance the investment process by investigating active and prospective investments for a variety of ESG issues across many topics: