McCarthy Denning
City of London, United Kingdom
December 2025
Legal activities
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
United Kingdom
McCarthy Denning is an international, London-headquartered law firm providing partner-led legal advice across corporate, tax, employment, real estate, disputes, private wealth and related commercial matters. We advise clients ranging from high-growth businesses to established international organisations, delivering clear, pragmatic and commercially focused solutions. We serve a global client base from emerging technology ventures to multinational corporations, consistently providing pragmatic, commercially astute solutions that align with our clients’ strategic objectives. McCarthy Denning +1 At McCarthy Denning, we combine deep technical proficiency with a collaborative, agile operating model built around exceptional specialists rather than traditional hierarchical structures. Our partner-led approach emphasises transparency, flexible fee arrangements, and a commitment to delivering value without unnecessary bureaucracy or billable-hour pressures. As a Certified B Corporation, we are committed to balancing profit with purpose. Our agile operating model prioritises transparency, collaboration and value, while embedding responsible governance and positive social and environmental impact into the way we work for our clients, our people and our wider community.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 20.4
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 31.4
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 14.5
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 11.2
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 4.1
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.