Practice area 08 / 08

Compliance & Regulatory Programmes

Obligations with fixed dates and independent verifiers, run as programmes: IFI and DFI covenants, environmental and social action plans, CBAM.

All practice areas

A development finance loan and a border carbon regime have the same shape: a list of obligations written by someone else, a calendar that does not move, and a verifier who cannot help you prepare. For a typical 50 to 250 MW project financed by EBRD, IFC or ADB the list runs to 120 to 180 discrete obligations; for a steel or aluminium exporter under CBAM it is a monitoring plan, an installation boundary and a verification gate every cycle.

Our practice builds the requirements library once and operates it: every obligation with an owner, a deadline and the evidence the monitor will ask for; reporting produced from the library rather than assembled before each deadline; and the audit trail kept in the shape the second cycle will need. The CBAM programme is set out on its own page with the working instruments.

When we are retained

At financial close of an IFI or DFI financed project, or when a compliance backlog has built up; when a company's exports enter CBAM scope or an importer needs a declarant programme; when adjacent regimes such as EU ETS2, CSRD or a national ETS add obligations to the same evidence base.

Instruments

01IFI/DFI requirements library with clause-level traceability; ESAP delivery; lender reporting and covenant monitoring
02Environmental and social compliance embedded in the project's operating rhythm, with named owners per obligation
03CBAM/SKDM programme management: scope determination, monitoring plan and system boundary engineering, verification management, certificate exposure modelling, supplier data governance
04Adjacent regimes on the same evidence base: EU ETS2, UK CBAM, CSRD/TSRS, national ETS

What the client receives

Requirements library and obligation register
Lender reporting pack on the loan agreement's calendar
ESAP delivery and evidence file
CBAM monitoring plan, evidence file and declaration package
Verifier correspondence log
Certificate exposure model