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Kerry Stares

Partner & Director of Responsible Business

Kerry is a responsible business expert and leads the Firm's ESG advisory services.

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About

Kerry is a Partner who leads the Firm's ESG advisory services to clients. In her own practice she works with businesses in a wide range of sectors, helping them to navigate the rapidly evolving and diverging landscape of ESG law and regulation, to spot and manage risk and to make smart, proportionate decisions today that future-proof business and investment value. She has particular expertise advising on ESG-related risk management issues, including modern slavery and wider human rights risks in the supply chain, greenwashing risks and governance gaps.

Kerry is also regularly engaged by our clients to design and deliver tailored training on ESG-related risks and opportunities for client Boards, executive and operational teams.

Alongside her practice, Kerry has a management role at the Firm, leading the development and implementation of the Firm's own Responsible Business Strategy, working closely with Senior Management, the Firm's Board and dedicated Responsible Business Steering Committee.

Kerry is a regular conference speaker and author on wide range of ESG and responsible business topics.

Experience

  • Advising a UK based stationery products company on compliance with the requirements of the new EU Deforestation Regulation.
  • Advising a high profile African Fintech company on the standards of human rights due diligence required by the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive;
  • Advising a leading European manufacturer and distributor of personal sanitary products on its green and sustainability-related claims.
  • Advising a leading sports team on the developing landscape of law and regulation governing business impacts on people in the supply chain.
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Our thinking

  • Remedy and Leverage: Addressing Human Rights Risks in Corporate Supply Chains

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • Social risks in the supply chain – from due diligence to resilience: Corporate human rights due diligence – a snapshot of the law in EU/UK

    Kerry Stares

    Podcasts

  • Business and human rights risk management update: Yves Rocher violated duty of vigilance law, French court rules

    Kerry Stares

    Quick Reads

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  • Growing investor focus on human rights and social sustainability

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • Engaging Suppliers on Carbon Emissions Reduction: 5 Tips to Set You Up For Success

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • Risk based human rights due diligence: What it means and why it matters

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • How Stakeholder Engagement and Grievance Mechanisms Strengthen Human Rights Due Diligence

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • Understanding risk-based human rights due diligence

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is amended: what is the EUDR and what must companies do now?

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • Post Omnibus amendments, a practical overview of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) for businesses

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • New statutory guidance on the Modern Slavery Act 2015 for supply chains

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • Food & Beverage Lookahead 2026

    Olivia Gray

    Insights

    min read
  • ESG lookahead 2026 – Impact on the Retail and F&B Sectors

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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  • Retail Lookahead 2026

    Rachel Bell

    Insights

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  • Update on UK ESG ratings regulation: FCA consults on rules to improve transparency and trust in the ESG ratings market

    Megan Gray

    Quick Reads

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  • Diginomica quotes Kerry Stares on the EU Deforestation Regulations

    Kerry Stares

    In The Press

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  • Greenwashing risk management update: TotalEnergies engaged in misleading commercial practices with its climate-related claims, French court rules

    Kerry Stares

    Quick Reads

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  • EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) update: Commission proposals for new transitional periods and simplification of due diligence statement filing obligations

    Kerry Stares

    Quick Reads

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  • Charles Russell Speechlys named in top 20 highest-scoring firms in new Lamp House responsible business report

    Simon Ridpath

    News

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  • How the OECD Guidelines’ National Contact Point (NCP) complaints procedure poses reputational risks to companies, including in M&A transactions

    Kerry Stares

    Insights

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