Alyssa Auberger has been working at Baker McKenzie for over 20 years, and in addition to being an M&A Partner based in Paris, she is also the Firm’s Global Chair of the Consumer Goods & Retail (or CG&R) Industry Group. In that role, she not only helps the Firm’s clients, including several companies in the CG&R sector, navigate multi-jurisdictional transactions, but also helps them negotiate and implement partnerships, and address the commercial and legal issues raised by their global strategy roll-out. In light of her extensive experience in the industry – and Baker McKenzie’s sponsorship of our 2020 Positive Luxury Awards – we chatted with Alyssa about responsible growth, how globalisation has changed, and what barriers luxury brands face today as they take on the Sustainable Development Goals.  How have you seen sustainability change over the years when it comes to global regulations? In terms of global regulations, I would say it’s an evolving space. As of right now, there is not a uniform, harmonised approach, but rather isolated pieces of legislation and regulations across different jurisdictions and they are not all the same. My personal view is that we will move towards more uniform requirements. Similarly, right now, there is a lot of voluntary reporting in the sustainability space,...