Ruth Knox
UK Guide 2025
Up and Coming : Environment & Climate Change
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About
Provided by Ruth Knox
Practice Areas
Ruth Knox is a partner in the London office and member of the Firm’s ESG & Impact Practice Group, which advises some of the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms, corporations, and project sponsors and lenders on complex and evolving legal issues relating to environmental, social and governance (ESG) and climate-related regulatory requirements, investor demands, strategic opportunities, and voluntary reporting frameworks and coalitions.
Ruth’s practice focuses on counseling clients on the management, mitigation and maximization of ESG risks and opportunities respectively. She has spent almost a decade advising on ESG regulations and soft law standards, including the EU Sustainable Finance package, the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) standard. Her experience spans large scale international M&A, sustainable finance transactions and ESG-related corporate crises of an international profile, and she has meaningful experience in climate finance.
Ruth advises across the full range of ESG legal services, including raising finance through sustainability-linked bonds, fund formations mandates, and corporate M&A transactions.
She has advised numerous funds on the application of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation to the categorization, strategy and operational risk and opportunity management programs of their alternative investment funds. As part of this work, she has helped establish a number of market-leading ESG-driven Article 9 funds. At her former law firm, she advised on numerous large-scale international corporate M&A transactions across various sectors including oil and gas, petchems, consumer products and mining. She also advised an international development institution on a market-leading forest bond.
Chambers Review
UK
Ruth Knox of Paul Hastings is well regarded for her growing practice, which sees her provide transactional support and compliance advice to clients. She is experienced in matters concerning liability, sustainability and climate change regulations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ruth is just terrific and has so much knowledge. She is really an expert."
"She demonstrates exceptional commerciality and knowledge, and is a clear leader in the space. She earns incredibly high respect from the biggest participants in the market and is an absolute standout."
"Ruth has both the detailed knowledge of sustainability issues and passion for this area to find the time to share what she has learnt from working on sustainability issues with the UKELA community."
"Ruth is just terrific and has so much knowledge. She is really an expert."
"She demonstrates exceptional commerciality and knowledge, and is a clear leader in the space. She earns incredibly high respect from the biggest participants in the market and is an absolute standout."
"Ruth has both the detailed knowledge of sustainability issues and passion for this area to find the time to share what she has learnt from working on sustainability issues with the UKELA community."