1/15/2025 2:18:40 PM ESG Legal Outlook 2025: key global themes By Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova Gilly Hutchinson We have published our ESG Legal Outlook 2025 highlighting the key global themes set to shape the legal landscape for ESG in the coming...
1/24/2025 12:44:27 PM The AMF amends its ESG Doctrine in light of the ESMA Guidelines on funds’ naming By Ngoc-Hong Ma Emilie Rochat On 2 January 2025, the French financial markets regulator (the AMF) amended its Position-Recommendation DOC-2020-03 (the “AMF ESG...
1/23/2025 3:52:04 PM Ireland publishes Draft Bill partially transposing EU Pay Transparency Directive By Jennifer Granado Aranzana Jada Bruccoleri Ireland has become the fourth EU member state to initiate implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive (EUPTD), following Sweden's...
1/16/2025 4:03:11 PM EU: EBA consults on CRD VI draft guidelines on ESG Scenario Analysis By Premlata Fagan The EBA is consulting on Draft guidelines on ESG Scenario Analysis. These guidelines are to be issued pursuant to the EBA’s mandate under...
1/16/2025 2:01:35 PM Energy & Infrastructure Legal Outlook 2025 By Jessica Hargreaves We have published our Energy & Infrastructure Legal Outlook 2025. With the transition to clean energy well underway and energy a critical...
1/16/2025 3:25:06 AM ESG Legal Outlook 2025: key Asia themes By Gilly Hutchinson Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova We have published our ESG Legal Outlook 2025 highlighting the key global themes set to shape the legal landscape for ESG in the coming...
1/14/2025 3:53:39 PM Corporate Governance On the Horizon: UK companies: 2025 and beyond By Wilma Rix Sara Feijao We have published new guides to help UK companies plan ahead and focus on some of the major legislative and regulatory developments that...
1/14/2025 12:14:08 PM UK: PRA Dear CEO letter on 2025 supervisory priorities for insurance firms - what to expect on management of climate risks By Premlata Fagan On 9 January 2025, the PRA published a Dear CEO letter outlining its 2025 supervisory priorities for the UK insurance sector. The letter...
1/9/2025 7:24:45 PM EU: EBA Final Report on Guidelines on the management of ESG risks - financial institutions must prepare to comply By Premlata Fagan Following its consultation in early 2024, on 9 January 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Final Report setting out...
1/9/2025 3:38:58 PM DEI in 2025: a binary choice? By Simon Kerr-Davis Laurie Ollivent At the start of 2024, we reflected on the landscape for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) for employers and the pace at which it was...
1/7/2025 3:06:38 PM England considered the most appropriate forum for novel supply chain proceedings involving factory workers in Malaysia By Faye Presland Rebecca Burton Emily McLennan In December 2024, the Court of Appeal (the “Court”) overturned a High Court decision that Malaysia was the proper forum to hear a claim...
1/7/2025 11:58:52 AM Polish end-of-year gift: draft law transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive By Jada Bruccoleri Poland has become the third EU member state to initiate implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive (EUPTD), following Sweden's...
1/2/2025 6:13:36 PM EU: Platform on Sustainable Finance sets out recommendations to Commission for categorisation of products under the SFDR By Elizabeth Webb Stephen Clipsham The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance has published a briefing note setting out a proposal to establish a product categorisation scheme...
12/23/2024 5:33:53 PM EU CSRD: EFRAG publishes Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for non-listed SMEs By Julia Voskoboinikova On 17 December 2024, the European Financial Reporting Advisory board (EFRAG) released the VSME, the voluntary reporting standard for...
12/23/2024 2:43:31 PM EU CSRD: 2024 end-of-year set of EFRAG explanations By Julia Voskoboinikova On 6 December 2024, EFRAG published 64 new explanations of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) under the Corporate...
12/23/2024 1:19:02 PM EU Deforestation Regulation: final green light for the one-year postponement By Guillaume Croisant Pierre-Noé Milcamps Julia Voskoboinikova On 23 December 2024, the Regulation (EU) 2024/3234 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the delay of the application...
12/18/2024 12:10:49 PM EU Forced Labour Regulation published in the Official Journal By Guillaume Croisant Pierre-Noé Milcamps Introduction The Forced Labour Regulation (EU Regulation 2024/3015) on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market)...