Rachel Barrett
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Environment & Climate Change
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Band 2
About
Provided by Rachel Barrett
Practice Areas
Rachel has exceptional breadth of experience in ESG issues, with particular expertise in environment, sustainability, and human rights, guiding her clients through legal and reputational challenges wherever in the world they arise. She is a member of Linklaters’ Environment & Climate Change and Crisis Response & Risk Management practices, and co-leads the firm’s Business and Human Rights practice.
Rachel has advised clients facing or anticipating regulatory investigation, investor activism, brand damage and media scrutiny in relation to a wide range of issues including product defects, adverse human rights impacts, and environmental incidents, among other things. Working in close collaboration with lawyers from the firm’s other practice areas, Rachel provides comprehensive advice on managing business risk, immediate crisis response and corporate investigations, as well as undertaking ‘lessons learned’ reviews and developing practical longer term responses and change programmes.
Rachel has a background in advising on the project development and financing aspects of energy transactions and has particular expertise in environmental, social and security issues on energy projects, including the application of international sustainability standards.
Chambers Review
UK
Rachel Barrett is a partner in the ESG practice at Linklaters. She assists clients with a broad range of environment mandates and is well placed to advise on ESG and transactional matters. She guides clients through UK and EU ESG reporting regimes.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Rachel provides recognised ESG leadership, strong client skills and the ability to manage complex stakeholders."
"She takes a very pragmatic and common-sense approach. Her style is very refreshing and easy. You never feel intimidated by her, despite the fact she's hugely talented."
"I love her helicopter view on matters. She is able to zoom in and out on things that matter."
"She is an excellent adviser across all the detail, but also commercial and pragmatic, offering interesting perspectives."
"Rachel provides recognised ESG leadership, strong client skills and the ability to manage complex stakeholders."
"She takes a very pragmatic and common-sense approach. Her style is very refreshing and easy. You never feel intimidated by her, despite the fact she's hugely talented."
"I love her helicopter view on matters. She is able to zoom in and out on things that matter."
"She is an excellent adviser across all the detail, but also commercial and pragmatic, offering interesting perspectives."
