Jul 31, 2024 Changes to the UK Stewardship Code seek to ease the burdens on signatories and support the growth of UK capital markets By Elisabeth Overland Christopher Bernard Yashi Chandra On 22 July 2024, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) announced several immediate revisions to the UK Stewardship Code 2020 in order to...
Jun 25, 2024 Ecocide out of the woods: update from Europe and beyond By Nathalie Colin Silvia Van Dyck Maximilien Arnoldy As climate and environmental issues are an increasingly hot topic in society, they are under growing spotlight in the legal arena. Major...
May 01, 2024 FCA publishes finalised guidance on the anti-greenwashing rule By Luke FitzGerald Elisabeth Overland The FCA has published its finalised guidance on the anti-greenwashing rule, alongside a consultation paper (which we summarise here) on...
Mar 21, 2024 ESG dispute risk for financial institutions: A global picture By Sharon Grennan Climate litigation and other ESG risks are on the rise around the world for corporates and financial institutions. In the EU and UK a...
Mar 08, 2024 New Law on Greenwashing finally adopted – The EU Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition By Tobias Timmann Nicolai Fornoff While the ‘Green Claims Directive’ is the dominant topic as pertains to regulatory developments concerning unfair competition law but has...
Nov 08, 2023 ESG and tax transparency: the next frontier of tax disputes? By Sarah Bond Alison Dickie Laura Western The importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues to businesses cannot be underestimated, with investors, lenders,...
Mar 30, 2023 FCA delays final rules on sustainability disclosure requirements (SDR) and investment labels By Elisabeth Overland The FCA has announced that it is delaying the publication of its Policy Statement on SDR and investment labels until Q3 this year....
Mar 13, 2023 EU State aid for the green transition: the floodgates are open By Andreas von Bonin Merit Olthoff Florian Reiter-Werzin Jonas Levermann +1 more... Show less On 9 March, the European Commission (Commission) significantly amended its State aid framework to support the economy following Russia’s...
Feb 02, 2023 Friends of the Earth v UKEF: Court of Appeal clarifies the approach to the Paris Agreement and Scope 3 emissions when making investment decisions By Jonathan Isted Cat Greenwood-Smith Anthea Bowater Emma Franck-Gwinnell +1 more... Show less In R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for International Trade/UK Export Finance (UKEF) [2023] EWCA...
Nov 23, 2022 Supply chain liability of directors and officers By Nicolas Rücker Moritz Becker Introduction This year’s demand letter to Shell’s board members by the NGO ClientEarth has drawn a lot of attention across corporate...
Nov 11, 2022 Gold Standard: the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce publishes draft recommendations for net zero transition plans By Emma Franck-Gwinnell Cat Greenwood-Smith On 8 November 2022, the third day of COP27, the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) published its draft recommendations for a transition...
Aug 02, 2022 From brown to green: How issuers are turning their existing bonds green By Joe Amann Sustainable finance is the name of the game in international debt capital markets. While one in ten bonds issued in 2021 globally had a...