1/21/2025 4:04:03 PM ESG regulation and litigation in 2025: what to expect for UK financial institutions By Maisie Stewart Anthea Bowater Sharon Tong Melissa Owens Simon Orton +2 more... Show less ESG will continue to be a priority for UK financial services firms this year, with some challenges from 2024 continuing and other new...
1/16/2025 2:04:49 PM Private Capital in 2025: 7 Things You Should Know By Ivet Bell Heather Brookfield Timothy Clark Brock Dahl Andrew Dockham Austin Evers Melissa Hodgman Eva Mak Bruce McCulloch Christine Wilson Sam Houshower David Nicolardi Jon Fougner Ginger Hervey +11 more... Show less Each new year brings with it the potential for change. 2025 is no different in this regard, with the potential for change being even...
1/3/2025 6:40:14 AM GHG Emissions: Past, Present and Future By Teresa Ko One of my last speeches as Co-Vice Chair of the Trustees of the IFRS Foundation was on GHG emissions, which arguably is the hardest bit...
12/19/2024 9:18:22 PM Navigating Legal Complexities in Cross-Border Supply Chain Investigations By Moritz Pellmann Federico Mercuri Cristina Hajek Gross Internal investigations serve as a fundamental tool for companies to detect, stop and remediate non-compliance incidents within their...
12/19/2024 2:38:35 PM California eases initial GHG reporting and seeks feedback for climate disclosures By Pamela Marcogliese Sam Houshower Ginger Hervey The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has exercised enforcement discretion to allow companies reporting under the Climate Corporate...
12/17/2024 5:37:04 PM Another Blow to ESG Mandates: Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Vacates Nasdaq Diversity Rules By Pamela Marcogliese Calise Cheng Shira Oyserman Yunah Ko William Gu +2 more... Show less On December 11, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”), in an en banc rehearing of Alliance for...
12/12/2024 11:47:51 AM Adoption of the modernised Energy Charter Treaty: retaining the key role of cross-border investment in the energy transition By Boris Kasolowsky Carsten Wendler Alexandra van der Meulen Gregorio Pettazzi Veronika Timofeeva Domen Tursic +3 more... Show less The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has long been the cornerstone of investment protection in the energy sector, offering enhanced legal...
12/10/2024 4:17:29 PM Milieudefensie v. Shell: Appeal verdict key takeaways By Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Moritz Becker Simon Duncombe Cat Greenwood-Smith Juliane Hilf Dimitri Lecat David Livshiz Elizabeth Forster Stefanie Spancken-Monz +6 more... Show less On 12 November 2024, the Court of Appeal of the Hague (the Court) overturned the landmark 2021 decision of Milieudefensie et al...
12/9/2024 10:02:58 AM The von der Leyen II Commission -navigating a fragmented EU By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Victor Garcia Lopez Lea Bareil The von der Leyen II Commission—navigating a fragmented EU Following intense negotiations and political manoeuvring, Ursula von der...
12/2/2024 3:57:52 PM COP29: forward or back? By Jake Reynolds The spectacle of COP is over again. A New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance was agreed (albeit at a level decried by...
11/29/2024 9:58:23 AM Planning ahead for reporting changes under the 2024 Governance Code: FRC Review of Corporate Governance Reporting By Makayla Knott Rós Ní Dhubháin On 26 November, the FRC published its 2024 Review of Corporate Governance Reporting (the Review). The below summarises some of the...
11/26/2024 6:03:43 PM ESG ratings providers to be regulated in the UK By Anthea Bowater Elisabeth Overland Hannah Bergin This month the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, confirmed as part of her first Mansion House speech the UK Government’s...