Wallace advises Integrum ESG on its strategic partnership with Malk Partners
Wallace advises Integrum ESG on its strategic partnership with Malk Partners
The Wallace corporate and commercial teams recently advised Integrum ESG on its strategic partnership with the US-based ESG Consultancy, Malk Partners. Malk has become a shareholder in Integrum ESG and the two businesses have teamed up via a commercial agreement focussed on the private equity community.
The partnership responds to increasing investor demand for data-driven ESG management that supports improved ESG performance across investors’ portfolios. Increasingly, private market investors want environmental, social, and governance data and analysis that is accurate, framework-aligned, and comparable. The partnership will deliver that, through a software-and-services pairing aimed at supercharging the ESG performance of portfolio companies.
Integrum ESG is a SaaS firm serving buy-side and professional investors in providing transparent, objectively assessed ESG data through its proprietary dashboard. The business has developed proprietary AI models which leverages vast amounts of data into a market leading ESG scoring and benchmarking offering. Integrum ESG is headquartered in London with a satellite office in New York.
Malk Partners is an ESG specialist consultancy founded in 2009 advising many of the world’s leading private equity, venture capital and private credit funds in helping them with all ESG aspects of their portfolios. Malk is headquartered in California with an office in New York.
Wallace has advised Integrum ESG since its incorporation in 2019 on all aspects of its business including its initial rounds of fundraising, all of its commercial relationships with suppliers and clients, intellectual property and all employment-related aspects of its business, including contracts, policies and staff incentives.
John Woodhouse, Laura Gillard and Stephanie Claridge provided the corporate advice to Integrum ESG. Alex Egerton led on the commercial aspects of the joint venture and James Williams advised on employment issues.
“Wallace is Integrum ESG’s lawyer for all matters. Our commercial partnership with Malk required sophisticated drafting across multiple complex documents and navigating cross-border issues under time pressure, in order to reach a very positive final agreement. As always, Integrum ESG was more than pleased with the results that Wallace delivered. ”