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The London Property Alliance webinar “Central London Debate: Rebuilding the Capital” took place on 16 September 2020. The panel...

One role of a proxy adviser is to provide voting recommendations to larger investors (asset managers, pension and investment funds etc)...

The French regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), has published guidance on the implementation of the EU's Sustainable...

ESMA has published a letter to the European Commission (EC) recommending a further wave of ESG regulation concerning ESG ratings and...

“This will play itself out – can’t we just ignore it?”. Before last year, this was perhaps still a reasonable – if potentially...

Tackling climate change is back on the agenda in the US, and is a renewed area of focus for the SEC: on 4 March, the SEC announced the...

The recently established SEC climate and ESG task force published its first risk alert on 9 April. The alert highlights the task force’s...

Sustainable finance which incorporates the environmental, social and governance criteria into investment decision making processes is...

Not only are carbon border taxes an interesting policy proposal in theory (on which we recently reflected here), but something that some...

Last week, we ran a webinar about contractor insolvency. The discussion was wide-ranging, including the (a) warning signs to look out...

On Friday 4 June 2021 the Loan Market Association (LMA), European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) and Loan Syndications and Trading...

In recent years, we have seen environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations rapidly rise up the agenda for businesses and...

The judgment handed down by the Royal Court of Jersey in the matter of the May Trust has provided an interesting insight into not only...

On 8 July 2021, the European Commission (EC) informed the European Council that the implementation of level 2 of the Sustainable...

The FCA has published its 2021/22 business plan. The publication of the plan was slightly delayed, which is perhaps unsurprising given...

As asset managers adapt to the need to disclose their approach to climate-related financial risks, integrate sustainability risk...