Gabrielle Galdino-Glaeser

Gabrielle is one of the core members of a multidisciplinary, cross‑border, sector-fluent team that has been at the forefront of sustainability law and policy as it has evolved.

Gabrielle is an experienced lawyer with deep experience in sustainability regulation and compliance, risk and crisis management, and net‑zero strategy and decarbonisation. Her current practice focuses on EU, UK and other global sustainability legal and voluntary frameworks, but her years practicing in Brazil, paired with a political science MSc, bring a unique perspective to sustainability advisory, which accounts for sensitivities in value chains, cultural complexities and geopolitical pressures. Gabrielle’s skillset is viewed as highly valuable by global businesses that seek strategic advice on how to comply and disclose with confidence, identify opportunities, manage risks and make sustainability progress that stands up to scrutiny.

• Advising large listed and private companies on the EU reporting obligations (CSRD and the EU Taxonomy) and due diligence obligations (CSDDD), supporting with scoping, reporting and compliance strategy, legal interpretation and risk management.
• Providing strategic legal advice on the interplay between CSRD disclosures and other existing global reporting frameworks (SEC, TCFD and ISSB based rules, modern slavery and conflict minerals requirements) and emerging reporting obligations for consistency, credibility and risk management, including considerations around geopolitical pressures (US).
• Multiyear advisory mandate for “all things sustainability reporting,” including double materiality assessment support, CSRD scoping and analysis, multijurisdictional legal support and strategic advice (Australia, Singapore, Mexico, UK and others), review of voluntary reports for CSRD/ greenwashing analysis and legal privilege considerations across workstreams.
• Legal and strategic advice in handling of audit triggered for alleged non-compliance of sustainability due diligence obligations in commercial contract. The work includes gap assessment of sustainability due diligence program; advice and draft of related policies; stakeholder management; responses in audit and support with document trail.
• Providing ongoing advice on complex issues including cross-border legal guidance to inform business’ GHG management, accounting and reporting policies; advice on best practices in supply chain sustainability risk management; ad-hoc advice on climate reporting in various regions.
• Ongoing support on management of legal and reputational risks around greenwashing, including engagement with authorities in respect of greenwashing claims; review of voluntary reports for advice on greenwashing risks and detailed advice on climate targets in light of CSRD, the ECGT Directive and other energy-related legal concepts.
• Advice on carbon credits (Article 6 of Paris Agreement).
• Advised a global company on a business review to identify, address and mitigate risks around tax and governance which involved over 60 interviews with senior stakeholders, review of documentation and business operations.
• Represented global businesses in judicial and administrative disputes in the UK and in Brazil.
• Provided pro bono advice on human rights for local and global organisations, including legal research, advice, practice notes and policy briefs.

• Baker Mckenzie Graduate Legal Scholarship (LL.M funding)
• International Tax Summer School - University of Cambridge

• Rio de Janeiro (Trench, Rossi & Watanabe)

• Baker Women Steering Committee