Jillian Button

Jillian is a leading climate change, ESG and environment law specialist. She is the Allens Head of Climate Change, and co-leads the firm’s ESG team.

A significant part of Jillian’s practice involves assisting clients to navigate the net zero transition. Recently Jillian has helped clients to comply with emissions reporting legislation and the reformed Safeguard Mechanism, negotiate carbon aspects of complex corporate transactions, establish large scale carbon farming arrangements, and ACCU acquisition transactions.

Jillian also provides ESG head office support, including reviewing climate change and sustainability strategies, policies and disclosures (including annual reports and standalone sustainability reports), assisting with AGM preparation in relation to sustainability and climate matters, and providing advice on the implementation of sustainability commitments. Jillian is also advising clients, principally multinational corporations and financial institutions, on Australia’s mandatory climate related financial disclosure regime.

Beyond ESG, Jillian advises on a range of environmental law matters, including renewable energy and energy storage (BESS) projects, electricity transmission projects, nuisance, compulsory acquisition, native title, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal heritage, native vegetation, EPBC and land contamination remediation matters. Recently, her practice has expanded into the offshore wind sector.