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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Maximizing Wealth: The Worldwide Growth of Family Offices

Many wealthy families in the US and worldwide utilize family offices to manage their assets and various other needs. In March 2024, CNBC reported that the number of family offices topped 4,500 last year, managing over $6...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Global ESG Insights - May 2024

Welcome to the latest edition of our monthly ESG Insights providing you with a summary of the key developments from around the world. Global - IFRS Foundation releases jurisdictional adoption guide for ISSB Standards- On...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

[Event] Medical Device Digital Health Conference - June 13th - 14th, San Francisco, CA

Wilson Sonsini’s 31st Annual Medical Device & Digital Health Conference will address topics of critical importance to medical device and digital health companies, including early and late-stage venture financing, partnering...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

An Evolving High-Wire Act: Navigating Conflicting Laws, Regulations, and Guidance in the ESG Space

The idea that investors might choose to consider certain environmental, social, and governance factors when deciding whether to buy shares of a company—a concept commonly known as ESG—continues to gain popularity with...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

OP-ED: Running the Numbers - Structuring a Commercial Real Estate Investment

As a commercial real estate lawyer, I understand that my clients often rely on their financial analysts and their projections, forecasts and assumptions to determine whether to invest in a real estate venture. Whether a...more

Morgan Lewis

ESG Investing Legislation: Predictions for the 2023–2024 Legislative Session

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing continues to be a hot-button issue as new state legislatures prepare for their next legislative session. The majority of US state legislative assemblies allow bills to be...more

Hogan Lovells

ESG Regulation Monthly Round-Up November 2022

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It has been a lively month for ESG and sustainability-related disclosures in the UK, EU and internationally with the adoption of the CSRD, the first draft of the ESRS and the conclusion of COP27.  This monthly round-up...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

H1 2022 – ESG Trends and Expectations

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations continued to play a key role in the first six months of 2022, with geopolitical circumstances resulting in a reexamination of a number of ESG beliefs. In our 11...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The Expanding Green Horizon: EU and UK ESG Regulatory Considerations and Developments for 2022

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The fund and asset management industry has been more focused on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues in the last two years than it has been in, perhaps, the last decade....more

Jones Day

ESG and Moves to the Lone Star State

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Business relocations to Texas are accelerating along with increased focus from ESG investors. Companies from across the United States continue to look to Texas as a new home for their headquarters and operations. According...more

Akerman LLP

SEC Intensifies Focus on ESG Disclosures and Policies, Practices, and Procedures

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On March 3, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the SEC) Division of Examinations (the Division) announced its Examination Priorities for 2021, which included an enhanced focus on climate-related risks. ...more

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ESG Trends for 2022: The Board-Level Perspective

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Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues are clearly going to be uppermost in the thoughts of CEOs and their corporate boards in 2022, if recent research by KPMG is anything to go by. ...more

The Volkov Law Group

Implementing ESG Programs: Structure and Responsibilities (Part I of III)

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ESG – the initials that are transforming corporate missions, purposes and structures, fueled by stakeholder and investor demand.  It is a significant moment in corporate and stakeholder interactions. ...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

ESG in Asset Management: A Global Perspective - October 2021

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The global asset management community has long been among the leaders in recognising the investment and risk management benefits of tracking the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of the assets it invests...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

ESG Remains a Priority: SEC Asset Management Advisory Committee Adopts ESG Disclosure Recommendations

On July 7, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Asset Management Advisory Committee (the Committee) adopted recommendations developed by the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Subcommittee related to ESG...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Diversity in Fund Finance: ‘Boundary Breakers’ Recap

The Diversity in Fund Finance group hosted the second Boundary Breakers speaker series event this week, featuring a discussion with Värde Partners on the endless battle for diversity. This conversation, moderated by Alex...more

Morgan Lewis

ESG Considerations for Investment Managers and a Review of Current ESG Standards and Frameworks

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The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) landscape is being shaped by the establishment of various ESG standards and frameworks (summarized and compared herein), many of which have been adopted on a voluntary basis by...more

King & Spalding

Anpassung von Vergütungssystemen und deren Veröffentlichung aufgrund der OffenlegungsVO

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Nach Art. 5 der OffenlegungsVO muss die AIF-KVG, ein „Finanzmarktteilnehmer“ im Sinne der Verordnung, im Rahmen ihrer „Vergütungspolitik“ (remuneration policy) angeben, „inwiefern diese mit der Einbeziehung von...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

PitchBook on ESG Developments in the Private Markets

“ESG is really about risks,” PitchBook analysts write in PitchBook Analyst Note: ESG and the Private Markets published in April. More specifically, the authors explain that ESG factors measure and address risks that have not...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Top 10 Items to Consider When Structuring Your ESG Facility

ESG-focused investment funds raised a record amount last year – estimated at more than $50 billion in new investor money. This trend is expected to not only continue but accelerate over the next few years. ...more

The Volkov Law Group

SEC Risk Alert on ESG Investing

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I have written extensively about the new and hot business trend – environmental, social and governance programs (“ESG”).  The luster surrounding ESG has been a significant business trend and priority. Like any new trend, the...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

What is ESG and How Could It Impact You?

Growing evidence suggests that corporate focus on ESG—Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance—may offer short- and long-term advantages to both companies and investors. These advantages are in addition to and apart...more

Polsinelli

SEC Makes Moves to Step Up ESG Enforcement

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As investor demand for socially responsible investing continues to rise, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has increased its focus on compliance practices of investment advisors and funds. After the change in...more

Morgan Lewis

The SEC Staff Takes On ESG Investing

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In the US Securities and Exchange Commission staff’s most recent guidance addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, the staff of the Division of Examinations released an April 9 Risk Alert noting...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Examinations Division Issues Risk Alert on ESG Products and Services

On April 9, 2021, the Division of Examinations of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“Division” or “staff”) issued a risk alert to highlight the staff’s observations from its recent examinations of investment...more

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