19 Dec, 2024 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...
19 Dec, 2024 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...
17 Dec, 2024 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 Dec, 2024 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...
10 Dec, 2024 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...
09 Dec, 2024 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...
02 Dec, 2024 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...
29 Nov, 2024 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...
26 Nov, 2024 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...
14 Nov, 2024 Federal court denies early challenge to CA climate disclosure laws By Pamela Marcogliese Sam Houshower Ginger Hervey Jennifer King +1 more... Show less The Federal District Court for the Central District of California on November 5 declined to grant summary judgment to the U.S. Chamber of...
14 Nov, 2024 How to meet the UK sustainable investment labelling disclosure requirements: The FCA provides much needed guidance to applicants By Elisabeth Overland Douglas Bryden Anthea Bowater Emma Rachmaninov Emily Strand +2 more... Show less In a move likely to be welcomed by the market, the FCA has updated its webpage on the Sustainability Disclosure and Labelling Regime to...
11 Nov, 2024 Take Two: What could a second Trump Administration mean for bank regulation in the U.S.? By David Sewell Alison Hashmall Nariné Atamian Bank stocks surged the day after Donald J. Trump won election to a second presidential term, recording double-digit gains on a widespread...