Anne-Kathrin Gillig: ESG expert who leaves nothing to chance.

ESG: Three letters are causing unrest in the business world. Hardly any company is opposed to sustainability and social responsibility as part of its strategy. But management feels increasingly overwhelmed by new regulations, more and more guidelines and new ordinances. Lawyer Anne-Kathrin Gillig knows that companies are undergoing a major transformation. And waiting and doing nothing is not an option. Instead, companies should actively shape the transformation. Anne-Kathrin is there to support them.

Your mission

For Anne-Kathrin, ESG consulting is not just about reacting to regulation, but also anticipating developments and seeing them as opportunities. She works with companies to develop a long-term ESG strategy that fits in with their corporate strategy. Anne-Kathrin knows the challenges on the corporate side and provides step-by-step support in implementing the strategy. She helps her clients to organize themselves in such a way that they can comply with all relevant regulations and face new laws with confidence. With extensive expertise and a passion for the subject, she works with her clients to develop holistic and sustainable ESG governance systems.

The topic of ESG is extensive and complex. It requires a fundamental transformation of corporate processes and their management.

Your approach

Anne-Kathrin’s clear recommendations are:

Companies should always set up governance that covers all subject areas.
Companies should start implementation at an early stage, even if they only achieve 80 percent at first. They can and should make improvements later.
ESG governance should be established by multidisciplinary teams and developed in conjunction with corporate strategy and ESG reporting.

Your focus

Compliance
Tax and commercial law
Foreign trade law
ESG

The "League of Law" series

ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) is just one of the many topics that are the focus of our “League of Law” series. Anne-Kathrin Gillig has more than 340 colleagues at KPMG Law throughout Germany. She can draw on KPMG Law’s global network at any time when dealing with cross-border issues.

As a legally independent commercial law firm, KPMG Law is associated and closely linked with KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. This enables Anne-Kathrin Gillig, together with experts from KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft and its Audit, Tax, Deal Advisory and Consulting divisions, to offer comprehensive, holistic and, if required, international support in the long-term transformation of her clients.

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Anne-Kathrin Gillig

"Uniform ESG governance requires companies to make far-reaching changes to all corporate processes."

Current publications

| Anne-Kathrin Gillig, Antonia Wulle, Marco Jan Zimmehl

What's next for foreign trade? The plans in the 2025 coalition agreement

Foreign trade and foreign trade have become particularly explosive in view of the new US tariffs. The CDU/CSU and SPD have agreed on the following measures in the coalition agreement.

| Anne-Kathrin Gillig, Miriam Bouazza

Errors in the CSRD report - these persons are liable for them

Reporting is a liability risk; companies should protect themselves.

| Anne-Kathrin Gillig

Implement CSRD and standards: a lot of work, little time

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will significantly change the management reports of many companies. In future, they will also have to report on the topic of sustainability (ESG).

Anne-Kathrin Gillig

Partner
Regional Manager Central
Head of Compliance and Business Criminal Law

THE SQUAIRE Am Flughafen
60549 Frankfurt am Main

Tel.: +49 69 951195013
agillig@kpmg-law.com

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Regulation, digitalization or ESG: who helps companies when the pressure grows? The professionals at KPMG Law know their stuff, and not just when it comes to law. They listen, they advise, they accompany companies through the transformation. Their motto: shaping instead of just reacting. Together with their clients, they face the challenges of today – and develop interdisciplinary strategies for the success of tomorrow.

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