Emily Holland is a member of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s ESG & Sustainability Practice, based in the Washington D.C. office, and a four-time Chambers recognized practitioner in Global Business & Human Rights Law (including 2024). She advises the world’s leading business organizations, including ...more

Emily Holland is a member of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s ESG & Sustainability Practice, based in the Washington D.C. office, and a four-time Chambers recognized practitioner in Global Business & Human Rights Law (including 2024). She advises the world’s leading business organizations, including financial institutions, private equity firms and public and private corporations, on novel and complex issues arising from an emerging area of law and regulation, competing stakeholder mandates, and evolving business priorities that impact companies’ ability to execute their ESG strategy and create long-term value. Her work covers matters relating to ESG and impact investing, sustainable finance debt offerings and credit facilities, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, disclosure and reporting, and ESG-related litigation. Emily has extensive experience advising on human rights matters across governance, due diligence, supply chain compliance, crisis management and remediation. She has also advised governments, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs on human and labor rights issues and the broader sustainability agenda. She is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Emily has written and presented extensively on ESG issues. In 2011, she co-authored a book on the experience of child soldiers in Liberia and a Liberian woman who became their champion, which was endorsed by Gloria Steinem.less