22 Dec, 2023 Road to CRD 6 – ESG takes center stage in financial regulation By Elisabeth Schemmer Jan Struckmann Falko Glasow Initially proposed by the EU Commission in 2021, the EU Banking Package is now taking its final shape since the co-legislators have...
24 Mar, 2023 LMA, LSTA and APLMA joint updates: a maturing sustainable loan market By Serena Chang Kacey Brown The green, social and sustainability-linked loans market continues to grow and with that growth there are continued signs of a maturing...
08 Mar, 2023 NGO brings climate-related judicial review against FCA By Anthea Bowater Simon Orton Luke FitzGerald The NGO ClientEarth has brought an application for permission to bring a judicial review against the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority...
03 Mar, 2023 Greenwashing and litigation risks in Germany - the case of financial institutions By Stefanie Fay Lukas Pfister Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden Increasing ESG regulation across Europe affects the compliance obligations of banks and other financial services providers. Greenwashing...
19 Oct, 2022 Road to COP27 - what does the future look like for sustainable finance? By Reena Parmar Peter Allen Duncan Kellaway The 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) was deemed by many to be a modest success, with some tangible positive progress achieved....
14 Sep, 2022 ESG for financial sponsors – priorities, challenges and opportunities By Maria Ledeneva Antonio Laino Financial sponsors are faced with a broad waterfront when it comes to managing ESG legal risk. The need to evaluate these wide-ranging...
29 Mar, 2022 New LMA guidance on green, social and sustainability-linked loans – what does this mean for corporate borrowers? By Rosemary Lobley Alice Dawson-Loynes Martin Hutchings On 10 March 2022, the LMA, APLMA and LSTA published two new guidance documents relating to ESG and sustainable finance: the 'Guidance for...
29 Oct, 2021 Does the law support investing for sustainability impact? By Juliane Hilf Timothy Wilkins David Rouch Following the IPCC’s ‘code red’ report, COP26 marks a crucial moment in governmental attempts to tackle climate change. Here, we explain...
12 Jul, 2021 The proposed EU Green Bond Standard - will this transform the market for green bonds? By Reena Parmar Stephan Pachinger The European Commission has published its long-awaited proposal for a regulation on European green bonds, the European Green Bond...
23 Jun, 2021 Sustainable finance – helpful evolution of the Green Bond Principles and Social Bond Principles in response to market feedback By Reena Parmar The market for green, social and sustainable finance has rapidly evolved into a mainstream source of finance for corporates. The Green...
18 Jun, 2021 Curbing 'greenwashing': the Loan Market Association tightens its guidance on sustainability-linked loans By Verity Stevens Karen Robinson On 27 May 2021, the Loan Market Association published a significantly revised set of sustainability-linked loan principles (SLLPs) and...
14 Apr, 2021 OTC derivatives and ESG finance – what role can they play? By Richard Hart Matthew Dodwell According to Bloomberg, in 2020, the global market for sustainable debt grew to $732bn, an increase of 29 per cent on 2019. A significant...