Jan 31, 2022 UK: Advertising regulators publish new guidance on misleading environmental claims By Sara Feijao Vanessa Havard-Williams Rachel Barrett Iyes Igiehon Wilma Rix +2 more... Show less In December 2021, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and Committee of advertising Practice (CAP) published guidance to help...
Jan 31, 2022 Preparing for ESG issues at your 2022 AGM By Wilma Rix Lucy Fergusson Vanessa Havard-Williams Rachel Barrett Sara Feijao Alexandra Beidas +3 more... Show less This year's AGM season promises to be lively on the ESG front, yet again - with climate change and other social and governance issues,...
Jan 31, 2022 Sustainable bond issuance crossed the $1 trillion milestone in 2021 By Siân Sanford Catherine Wade Sabrina Lee Elaine Keats Ben Dulieu Richard O'Callaghan +3 more... Show less Sustainable bond issuance crossed the US$1 trillion milestone in 2021 as corporate and sovereign issuances surged amid another...
Jan 31, 2022 UK: PRA writes to CEOs of banks and insurers warning of climate focus in 2022 By Sara Feijao Raza Naeem Victoria Hickman Vanessa Havard-Williams Rachel Barrett Kim Rybarczyk +3 more... Show less In January 2022, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) sent “Dear CEOs” letters to banks and insurers setting out its supervisory...
Jan 28, 2022 ESMA proposes burdensome “sustainability preferences” revisions to its Suitability Guidelines By Vanessa Havard-Williams Peter Bevan Silke Bernard Raza Naeem Benjamin Maconick Terry Yiangou +3 more... Show less With the integration of sustainability preferences into MiFID II suitability requirements effective from August this year, ESMA has today...
Jan 27, 2022 Covid-19 is reshaping gender and diversity reporting| EmploymentLinks | Linklaters By Laurie Ollivent Take a look at this related cross-practice blog post.
Jan 26, 2022 ESG: potential liability and litigation risk for banks By Rebecca Burton Satindar Dogra Vanessa Havard-Williams Rachel Barrett +1 more... Show less Linklaters recently published its Banking Litigation 2022: A look ahead, in which ESG is identified as one of the key areas that may give...
Jan 26, 2022 European PE industry group announces further ESG industry standards and data collection efforts By Sofiya Bumagin January has seen two important announcements from Invest Europe, the European PE industry group body representing some of Europe's...
Jan 26, 2022 ESMA letter to co-legislators on proposed EU Green Bond Standard By Nicola Hiestermann Amrita Ahluwalia Catherine Wade Richard O'Callaghan Elaine Keats Ben Dulieu +3 more... Show less ESMA has published a letter to the European co-legislators outlining its principal observations on the proposal for a regulation of...
Jan 26, 2022 Belgium on its way to implementing EU Conflict Minerals Regulation By Guillaume Croisant Charlotte Peiffer The EU Conflict Minerals Regulation (the “CMR”), formally Regulation 2017/821 of 17 May 2017 laying down supply chain due diligence...
Jan 25, 2022 German Competition Law and ESG – sustainability-cooperation is fine, unjustified price-fixing is (still) not By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) is actively participating in the debate on how to integrate ESG topics into competition law. As...
Jan 24, 2022 A focus on workplace culture: Could Enron happen in 2022? | EmploymentLinks | Linklaters By Nicola Rabson Laurie Ollivent Take a look at this related cross-practice blog post.
Jan 24, 2022 Hong Kong SAR: HKMA Climate Risk: Stress Tests and Risk Management By Gilly Hutchinson The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has recently published the results of the pilot climate risk stress test (CRST) exercise for...
Jan 21, 2022 ESG Outlook 2022: our top predictions By Sara Feijao Vanessa Havard-Williams Rachel Barrett Elaine Choo Susana Majid +2 more... Show less The Linklaters ESG Outlook 2022 has landed, with our top predictions for key ESG themes globally, as well as in the EU, UK, US, Asia and...
Jan 20, 2022 ESG Webinar: recap and key ESG focus areas for banks and insurers in 2022 By Vanessa Havard-Williams Edward Chan Raza Naeem A number of ESG developments occurred over 2021, both at a European level (in particular finalisation of the Article 8 Taxonomy delegated...
Jan 17, 2022 European Commission proposes new directive to crack down on environmental crime By Guillaume Croisant Melissa Verplancke Charlotte Peiffer Bruno Garcia Da Silva +1 more... Show less On 15 December 2021, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal (the “Proposal”) for a directive on the protection of...