ESG goes mainstream - now a key ingredient in mergers and acquisitions

In this Rational Radio interview, top lawyer Rudolph du Plessis explains how the previously marginal measure of a company's Environmental, Societal and Governance impact has gone mainstream. The partner in leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills says that buyers (and sellers) are taking ESG into account not just in price determination - but even when deciding to do the transaction at all.