IPO ESG Advising
We offer assistance to growing companies from a sustainable development perspective by developing corporate documents and relevant practices, creating and implementing ESG strategies, assessing social and environmental impacts, and more.
How We Can Help with ESG Advising for IPO
We Can Assist If You Are:
- A company at the stage of C/D investments, with a valuation of more than $100 million
- A client of venture and private equity funds
- A large company on the way to an IPO
- A large company entering a new market
Why You Need It
Helps to make the IPO/attraction round of your company more competitive
The presence of ESG ratings prior the IPO gives a deeper assessment of the business
Allows to assess potential risks (a proactive approach to the analysis and modeling of relevant threats)
The presence of an ESG strategy/ratings/reporting indicates that the company is well prepared to meet the requirements for the annual report for the first year of operation under the reporting regime of public companies.
ESG strategy will optimize internal processes
Focusing on ESG will help attract the interest of key investors
As a result, it can significantly affect the raising of funds before the IPO, the valuation of the company, the formation of trust in the market and the overall success of the IPO.
According to the McKinsey research, "[A strong] ESG proposition correlates with "higher equity returns", "higher credit ratings" and "a reduction in downside risk". Companies that have received high scores on ESG ratings have a reduced cost of capital (on average by 10%) and a higher rating compared to similar companies that received low ESG ratings.
Starter
✓ Greening of business processes
✓ ESG diagnostics
✓ ESG reporting
✓ ESG strategy and a roadmap
✓ Internal documents on ESG-directions
✓ ESG training
✓ ESG diagnostics
✓ ESG reporting
✓ ESG strategy and a roadmap
✓ Internal documents on ESG-directions
✓ ESG training
Business
Initial maturity of the ESG agenda (C/D investment round)
Package Pricing
Enterprise
We offer a set of services, focusing on your external and internal tasks and challenges on your request
Maturity of the ESG agenda
is medium and high
is medium and high
✓ Greening of business processes
✓ ESG diagnostics
✓ ESG reporting
✓ ESG strategy and a roadmap
✓ Internal documents on ESG directions
✓ ESG training
✓ Carbon and climate management
✓ Impact assessment
✓ ESG ratings
✓ Internal/external ESG communications
✓ Involvement of top management in the ESG agenda
✓ ESG diagnostics
✓ ESG reporting
✓ ESG strategy and a roadmap
✓ Internal documents on ESG directions
✓ ESG training
✓ Carbon and climate management
✓ Impact assessment
✓ ESG ratings
✓ Internal/external ESG communications
✓ Involvement of top management in the ESG agenda
Customer Success Story
Industry: IT
About the Company: A unicorn company, with more than 5,000 employees and a presence in 40+ countries around the world.
The Challenge:
The company reached out to us while preparing for their IPO. Their mission places significant emphasis on social impact at various levels of stakeholders, the market, and the world. Consequently, one of their internal objectives is to learn how to measure this impact and understand how to integrate it into their business processes.
Questions the Company Came With:
- How can we effectively demonstrate our positive impact on various stakeholder groups and the world at large?
- Where does this fit within the company's business strategy?
- How and where will our ESG goals be reflected in both internal and external processes?
- How can we maximize our positive impact and manage a large portfolio of projects supporting underrepresented communities?
- How can we overcome the initial skepticism toward ESG implementation?
- How can we meet the ESG requirements of external stakeholders, including investors and stock exchanges?
Our Solution
The solution is to base the company's approach on the latest “triple bottom-line” system, which includes globally recognized ESG tools and practices.
Main stages and approaches:
✓ Creation of the ESG Committee comprising heads of key business units with expert support: involvement of management in the concept of the "triple bottom line"¹ and the ESG agenda to align the ESG strategy with the vision, priorities and goals of the business.
✓ Development of an Impact Assessment Methodology for a significant portion of the company's social indicators, focusing on the existing portfolio of projects aimed at supporting underrepresented communities, and using SROI to measure qualitative changes.
✓ ESG Strategy Development: Creating an action plan for managing impact using the "triple bottom line" approach.
Main stages and approaches:
✓ Creation of the ESG Committee comprising heads of key business units with expert support: involvement of management in the concept of the "triple bottom line"¹ and the ESG agenda to align the ESG strategy with the vision, priorities and goals of the business.
✓ Development of an Impact Assessment Methodology for a significant portion of the company's social indicators, focusing on the existing portfolio of projects aimed at supporting underrepresented communities, and using SROI to measure qualitative changes.
✓ ESG Strategy Development: Creating an action plan for managing impact using the "triple bottom line" approach.
This concept states that the company exists to maximize benefits to the planet and society through its business model and activities. To do this, the company must understand what impacts it has, measure them and have the knowledge to effectively manage them.
The Implementation
✓ Step 1: To identify and assess impacts, we conducted a materiality assessment within the domestic market and engaged extensively with stakeholders, following GRI and AA1000SES standards, as well as employing the double materiality approach.
✓ Step 2: Identifying ESG strategic topics and conducting a gap analysis for non-compliance with regulatory requirements, voluntary standards, and best practices.
✓ Step 3: Developing goals, initiatives, and management approaches based on findings from Step 2, in collaboration with company management and the ESG committee to ensure alignment with the overall business vision.
✓ Step 2: Identifying ESG strategic topics and conducting a gap analysis for non-compliance with regulatory requirements, voluntary standards, and best practices.
✓ Step 3: Developing goals, initiatives, and management approaches based on findings from Step 2, in collaboration with company management and the ESG committee to ensure alignment with the overall business vision.
The Results
• High level of management involvement: The ESG Committee and senior management are actively implementing ESG principles.
• Impact Assessment Methodology: An impact assessment methodology has been developed and implemented for a portfolio of projects aimed at supporting underrepresented communities.
• An assessment of materiality has been carried out: The Company knows the most significant impacts of and on it.
• Extensive interaction with stakeholders: More than 4 thousand people took part in the survey and completed it. The basis for further systematic approach to interaction with stakeholders has also been created.
• ESG Strategy approved by CEO and Board of Directors: Transparent impact management plan.
• Public ESG Strategy: Transparent plan for stakeholders.
• Alignment with the US ESG framework: An action plan has been developed to align with the requirements of the US ESG system.
• Impact Assessment Methodology: An impact assessment methodology has been developed and implemented for a portfolio of projects aimed at supporting underrepresented communities.
• An assessment of materiality has been carried out: The Company knows the most significant impacts of and on it.
• Extensive interaction with stakeholders: More than 4 thousand people took part in the survey and completed it. The basis for further systematic approach to interaction with stakeholders has also been created.
• ESG Strategy approved by CEO and Board of Directors: Transparent impact management plan.
• Public ESG Strategy: Transparent plan for stakeholders.
• Alignment with the US ESG framework: An action plan has been developed to align with the requirements of the US ESG system.
Benefits For the Customer
INSIDE THE COMPANY
- Organization-wide integration of ESG principles;
- Establishment of a unified internal approach and transparent action plan;
- Enhanced decision-making informed by accurate indicators and data;
- Boost in team motivation and aspirations;
- Utilization of the ESG strategy as a foundation for advancing the business strategy;
- Scalability of impact assessment methodology across all company departments.
OUTSIDE THE COMPANY
- Enhanced transparency and accountability
- Showcase of positive results for stakeholders
- Adherence to evolving regulatory requirements
- Reinforcement of reputation and attraction of ESG-focused investors
Contact Us
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