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ESG
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The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Corporate Stakeholders, Corporate Valuation, and ESG
By Bradford Cornell, Alan C. Shapiro
In a 1987 paper, available here, we argued that non-investor stakeholders play an important role in influencing financial policy and corporate valuation. We also distinguished explicit claims between a company…
SEC Actions
This Week In Securities Litigation (Week of December 7, 2020)
A Commission subcommittee recommended that the agency adopt standards requiring disclosure of material environmental, social and governance risks at the beginning of last week. This follows, in part, a report…
Energy & Cleantech Counsel
Mandating Standard ESG Risk Disclosures – Is The Tide Turning At The SEC?
By Matt Miller
Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented shift in investor focus toward the analysis use of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) risks and impacts in investment decision-making. …
IPO, Then What?
Mandating Standard ESG Risk Disclosures – Is The Tide Turning At The SEC?
By Matt Miller
Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented shift in investor focus toward the analysis use of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) risks and impacts in investment decision-making. …
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Delegated acts on ESG disclosure requirements for benchmark administrators published in OJ
By Hannah Meakin (UK), Anna Carrier (BE)
On Thursday, 3 December 2020, the long-anticipated delegated acts on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure requirements for benchmark administrators authorised or registered under European Benchmark Regulation (BMR) were…
Latham.London
High Court Strikes Out “Largest White Elephant in the History of Group Actions”
A class action by 202,600 claimants arising from the collapse of the Fundão dam in Brazil was struck out as abuse of process. By Sophie Lamb QC, Oliver Middleton, and…
Gravel2Gavel
Incorporating ESG into the Oil and Gas Industry
By Henrietta Worthington, April Lord
By Henrietta Worthington and April Lord As we previously reported, the popularity of the sustainability linked loan and the green loan have snowballed in recent years. However, it’s not just…
Global Financial Regulatory Blog
FCA Considers Establishing ESG Guiding Principles
FCA director highlights areas of concern in relation to ESG reporting and provides recommendations. By Paul A. Davies, Nicola Higgs, Michael D. Green, and Anna Lewis-Martinez Richard Monks, Director of…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Climate and environmental risks to become part of screenings at banks, insurers and pension funds
According to the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) in a recent news item, financial institutions increasingly have to take into account risks associated with climate change and the…
Environment, Land & Resources
FCA Considers Establishing ESG Guiding Principles
FCA director highlights areas of concern in relation to ESG reporting and provides recommendations. By Paul A. Davies, Nicola Higgs, Michael D. Green, and Anna Lewis-Martinez Richard Monks, Director of…