On 14 May 2024 ESMA published its long-awaited guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms (the Guidelines). The Guidelines apply three months after the date of their publication on ESMA’s website...more
On 10 March 2021,the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation ((EU) 2019/2088) ("SFDR") came into force. This imposes environmental, social and corporate governance (“ESG”) and reporting requirements on a wide range of...more
SFDR and Asset Allocators. The European Green Deal declared climate change and environmental degradation as existential threats to Europe and the world. The European Union (EU) has set out to mobilize private financial...more
In this episode, the first in our three-part EU ESG Considerations for Beginners miniseries, Akin Gump financial regulatory partner Ezra Zahabi looks at the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and what it means...more