Why choose Rights Advisory?
We provide a unique combination of law firm rigor and accessibility with a personal, grounded advisory style, tailored to business realities.
Extensive experience in shaping good social impact practices
Our founder is among a select group of professionals who have been shaping global human rights due diligence good practices since the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011.
Effective mitigation instead of over-compliance and ineffective tools
This is because we know from our many years of practical experience what works and what does not; what over-compliance and ineffective tools look like.
We understand the purpose behind each due diligence obligation in the laws now shaping the field, and therefore, what effective implementation looks like.
Cost-effective, impactful efforts focusing where they matter most
Our mission is to help companies thrive through meaningful and tangible human rights actions, starting from where they are. We integrate due diligence into existing processes and never offer off-the-shelf solutions. Because like humans, each company is unique in culture, needs, and challenges. This approach is more cost-effective and impactful, focusing efforts where they matter most.
In my experience, effective human rights due diligence is not about ticking boxes. It’s about understanding how harm to people materialises into real business risks and how to tailor mitigating strategies to fit a company’s unique operating context and challenges.
Our founder
Malin Helgesen
Founder Malin Helgesen is a highly experienced lawyer and expert corporate advisor on human rights and social sustainability. She is also a frequent speaker, panelist and facilitator.
Motivated by the unravelling potential in business agility and innovation to improve the lives of people, she is committed to promoting sustainable business transformations that benefit both planet and corporate performance.
As human rights corporate counsel in Equinor ASA, Malin was an early adopter of the global framework now shaping the EU sustainability legislations and regulations. She offers a unique experience in supporting companies spanning from board level to practical due diligence, sustainability reporting and meaningful stakeholder engagement on the ground and across value chains.
- Master of Law, Lund University
- LLM, International Human Rights and International Law,
- London School of Economics.
- Many years in M&A and commercial law at the leading Nordic law firms Mannheimer Swartling, Vinge and Wiersholm.
- Swedish delegate to the ICC International Commission on Corporate Responsibility and Anti-Corruption.