It may be early days but the Green Investment Bank has already enjoyed some success, chalking up a string of major deals since its inception in 2012. General counsel Euan McVicar talks to Alex Newman about balancing commercial interests with environmental considerations, and assesses law firms’ green credentials
Despite being the general counsel of a London-based investment bank, Euan McVicar’s most pressing concerns aren’t quite the same as his City peers’. For one, he isn’t juggling multi-jurisdictional investigations into the alleged misconduct of his traders. Nor is he agonising over how EU bonus cap rules will apply to his best-paid colleagues. And unlike Barclays GC Bob Hoyt, he isn’t overseeing the firing of 20% of the workforce.
