Legal ESG events around the world offer a unique platform for law firm leaders, general counsel, ESG experts, and legal professionals to exchange insights and help shape the ESG agenda in the legal sector. We are happy to announce a new ESG event focused on Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Legal ESG BENELUX to be held on 24 September 2025, in The Hague (The Netherlands).
At Legal ESG BENELUX we will discuss key themes including regulatory change, political context, talent, litigation, AI, and the evolving role of legal professionals in the ESG space.
The conference will take place on Wednesday, 24 September 2025, and is hosted by the Dutch law firm La Gro in The Hague.
We are currently shaping the programme and reaching out to potential speakers, panelists, and moderators. The preliminary list of topics includes (subject to refinement in close coordination with speakers):
Global Shifts:Trump 2.0, Geopolitics, Risk & Regulation
Landmark Cases:ESG in the Courtroom
ESG in the Benelux:Regulatory Developments, Litigation Risks, and ESG & Transactions
What Clients Want:ESG Challenges and Expectations Unpacked
Global Shifts – Trump 2.0, Geopolitics, Risk & Regulation
Renowned energy and geopolitics expert Gerard Reid explores how global political and financial disruptions—from U.S. elections to energy crises—are reshaping ESG risks, regulation, and strategic decision-making.
Landmark Cases: ESG in the Courtroom
Litigation is increasingly shaping ESG practice. This session delves into influential court cases, shareholder activism, and how legal precedent is evolving across environmental and human rights issues.
ESG in the Benelux: Regulation, Litigation & Transactions
Legal experts from top firms dissect recent ESG-related regulatory shifts, litigation risks, and the growing role of sustainability in corporate transactions within the Benelux region.
What Clients Want: ESG Challenges and Expectations Unpacked
Corporate counsel and legal scholars offer a client-side view into ESG priorities. Understand the real-world challenges businesses face—and what they expect from legal advisors.
B Corp & Beyond: Rethinking Law Firm Values
Explore how B Corp certification and other values-driven frameworks are transforming law firm culture. Leaders share how they're aligning internal operations with broader ESG goals.
EU ESG Agenda: Omnibus & Draghi Insights
A pan-European panel analyzes key EU ESG initiatives—from the Omnibus Package to Draghi's industrial policy strategy—and their implications for law, business, and governance.
Wellbeing at Work: The Next ESG Frontier
Discover findings from the IBA’s Wellbeing Commission and learn how mental health and employee welfare are becoming essential to ESG strategies in legal and corporate sectors.
Biodiversity: The Legal Stakes of Nature Loss
Nature loss poses major legal, financial, and ethical risks. This session highlights how lawyers can engage with biodiversity as a growing ESG concern in regulation and strategy.
Legal ESG Benelux
Our Speaking Faculty
Hear from leading minds advising on ESG progress throughout Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Global Shifts – Trump 2.0, Geopolitics, Risk & Regulation
Gerard Reid, Energy, Finance & Geopolitics | Making Sense of Disruption | Investor & Strategic Advisor
Renowned energy and geopolitics expert Gerard Reid explores how global political and financial disruptions—from U.S. elections to energy crises—are reshaping ESG risks, regulation, and strategic decision-making.
Landmark Cases: ESG in the Courtroom
Jeroen Raskin,Partner at Monard Law | Corporate/M&A, and corporate litigation
Loes van Dijk,Founder Climate Court and EU Climate Pact Ambassador
Litigation is increasingly shaping ESG practice. This session delves into influential court cases, shareholder activism, and how legal precedent is evolving across environmental and human rights issues.
Impact Investing
Sjoerd Kamerbeek,Managing Partner at Van Doorne | Director of the Chair for Social Entrepreneurship of Utrecht University
Helmer Schukken,Managing partner at rubio impact ventures
A Conversation Between Sjoerd Kamerbeek and Helmer Schukken on Purpose-Driven Capital, the CSRD and more…
Legal experts from top firms dissect recent ESG-related regulatory shifts, litigation risks, and the growing role of sustainability in corporate transactions within the Benelux region.
Key note Sustainable investments: navigating legal and practical barriers |Mathijs Arts, Partner at La Gro | Head of ESG
ESG in the Benelux: Regulation, Litigation & Transactions
Aukje Haan, Partner at CMS | Co-Head CMS Commercial and ESG | Netherlands
Dino Serafini, ESG & Sustainability Legal Lead at Arendt & Medernach
Legal experts from top firms dissect recent ESG-related regulatory shifts, litigation risks, and the growing role of sustainability in corporate transactions within the Benelux region.
Key note Sustainable investments: navigating legal and practical barriers |Mathijs Arts, Partner at La Gro | Head of ESG
What Clients Want: ESG Challenges and Expectations Unpacked
Daan van Maurik,PhD Candidate Climate Litigation at Utrecht University
Irina Michkina,Senior Legal Counsel Sustainability at Booking.com
Annelies van Tongeren, Senior Manager at PwC Legal Business Solutions
Corporate counsel and legal scholars offer a client-side view into ESG priorities. Understand the real-world challenges businesses face—and what they expect from legal advisors.
B Corp & Beyond: Rethinking Law Firm Values
Boris Bekkering, Commercial Director at Regreener | No-nonsense Climate Action
Sjoerd Kamerbeek, Managing Partner at Van Doorne | Director of the Chair for Social Entrepreneurship of Utrecht University
Explore how B Corp certification and other values-driven frameworks are transforming law firm culture. Leaders share how they're aligning internal operations with broader ESG goals.
EU ESG Agenda: Omnibus & Draghi Insights
Anna Duron, Senior Associate at Ashurst (Brussels) | EU law | Board Member at Legal Diversity & Inclusion Alliance
Pauline Kuipers, Partner Competition & EU Law, co-head of International Competition & EU Group at Bird & Bird
A pan-European panel analyzes key EU ESG initiatives—from the Omnibus Package to Draghi's industrial policy strategy—and their implications for law, business, and governance.
Biodiversity: The Legal Stakes of Nature Loss
Renske Mackor, Director at PwC,Legal Sustainability | Research into Rights of Nature
Nature loss poses major legal, financial, and ethical risks. This session highlights how lawyers can engage with biodiversity as a growing ESG concern in regulation and strategy.
Ethics, the Rule of Law, and the Role of the Legal Profession in ESG
The legal profession holds a central and profound role in shaping a just, equitable, and sustainable society. Legal professionals are entrusted not only with upholding the law but also with the ethical responsibility to ensure that the law—and its application—serves the greater good.
Today, the profession stands at a critical crossroads. In the face of mounting global challenges—including rising corruption, erosion of ethical standards, and increasing threats to the Rule of Law—lawyers must act with agency and urgency. Whether through litigation, policy reform, public advocacy, or strategic client advice, legal professionals have both the opportunity and the obligation to influence change and uphold legal and institutional integrity.
