Sustainability
Building Value Where It Counts
Our commitment to growth-oriented investing is one of the many ways we are a successful steward of our investors’ capital. As we identify these growth opportunities and the potential to create lasting value, we incorporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into our investment process and day-to-day operations.
“Our sustainability strategy is built around a global framework that, we believe, is designed to allow us to adapt the most relevant, actionable, and practical elements for our diversified and flexible investing mandate.”
Our Sustainability Strategy
We incorporate ESG factors alongside other financial and business levers which helps us evaluate, manage, and monetize our investments. This perspective gives us a broader lens on potential risks and growth opportunities – and helps us support the growth of resilient portfolio companies built for the long term.
Memberships
We actively engage with organizations and policy experts to enhance our expertise and deepen our commitment to sustainability.
Climate Strategy
We continue to expand our climate strategy, using the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations as a guide to consider and disclose climate change-related risks and opportunities and how they impact our business.
ESG Integration in Action
We aim to work collaboratively with portfolio company leadership to meet them wherever they are in their respective sustainability journeys. We strive to promote best practices, providing resources and support that best fit our portfolio companies’ overall strategy, culture, and business operations.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
We view employees as our greatest asset. We believe that creating a workplace that values and fosters equality and diversity is essential to achieving this goal and bringing creativity and innovative thought to our decision making.
Corporate Citizenship
Through the Warburg Pincus Foundation, our firm supports a wide variety of charitable, educational, and community organizations with a combination of time and financial contributions.
Corporate Governance
Warburg Pincus has a rigorous Code of Ethics, Compliance Manual, and Personal Trading Policy, as well as an Oversight Committee that assists with internal policies and procedures relating to compliance matters. Our governance practices include:
- Conducting annual training programs and testing to help ensure that all employees fully comply with our Code of Ethics and other firm policies, including policies relating to compliance with anti-bribery regulations
- Investing our own capital alongside our investors
- Not taking any deal, advisory, board, or monitoring fees1
- Holding seats on the boards of the vast majority of our portfolio companies and encouraging best practices in their corporate governance
We believe effective governance is essential to growth and success. That’s why we make available frameworks and processes to our portfolio companies as needed, which they can adapt to their own operations and cultures.
1 Any such fees received by Warburg Pincus or its employees are credited to the respective fund as a 100% offset to management fees.
Warburg Pincus Code of Ethics — Key Takeaways
Act in the best interest of our funds and fund investors
Avoid personal conflicts of interest
Appropriately use our position of trust
Protect and prevent the misuse of non- public information that we possess
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