Sep 29, 2022 Corporate round up for UK companies By Wilma Rix Sara Feijao Our latest Corporate Round-up for UK listed companies gives an overview of key corporate governance and reporting developments over the...
Sep 28, 2022 Diversity on trustee boards By Linklaters ESG Team The diversity of trustee boards is becoming a hot topic at industry events and a focus for the Pensions Regulator. In this blog, we...
Sep 27, 2022 New ESG webinars: greenwashing, climate transition plans, and cost of living crisis By Sara Feijao Gilly Hutchinson Julia Voskoboinikova We will be holding the following ESG webinars in October and November: Cost of living crisis: Issues for legal teams to consider Join us...
Sep 26, 2022 Final report and revised ESMA guidelines published on certain aspects of MiFID II suitability requirements By Raza Naeem Premlata Fagan Benjamin Maconick Victoria Hickman +1 more... Show less On 23rd September 2022, ESMA published its final report and revised guidelines on MiFID II suitability requirements detailing how it...
Sep 20, 2022 EU: European Supervisory Authorities pose concerning questions on SFDR interpretation, only a few months before the Level 2 standards apply By Raza Naeem Silke Bernard Benjamin Maconick Julia Vergauwen James Morris David Ballegeer Ngoc-Hong Ma Dr Frederik Winter Etienne Dessy Victoria Hickman +7 more... Show less What has been published? Following on from their queries submitted in May (see questions and answers), the European Supervisory...
Sep 16, 2022 They did it again – Crisis Manager FCO allows exclusive cooperation between big German gas wholesalers By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer New floating LNG terminals are part of the solution to replace discontinued Russian gas supplies for the upcoming winter period in...
Sep 15, 2022 EU proposal for a regulation to ban products made with forced labour - “Human rights are not for sale – at any price” By Bruno Garcia Da Silva Guillaume Croisant Jennifer Granado Aranzana On 14 September 2022, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published its long-awaited proposal for a regulation prohibiting...
Sep 15, 2022 German court dismisses climate change action against Mercedes-Benz By Alexandros Chatzinerantzis Mirjam Erb Florian Kolodziej Dominik Schramm +1 more... Show less This week, the Regional Court of Stuttgart dismissed a climate lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz, which aimed at obliging the company not to...
Sep 15, 2022 USA: latest ESG developments in West Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Indiana and Florida By Menaka Nayar Doug Davison Stephanie Sebastian Salma Shitia +1 more... Show less West Virginia and Texas bar financial firms over deemed fossil fuel boycotts In July 2022, the West Virginia State Treasurer published a...
Sep 14, 2022 Insights from UK-China ESG Summit By Alex Roberts Last Wednesday, I attended the second iteration of the British Chamber of Commerce Shanghai’s Sustainability and ESG Summit in China’s...
Sep 12, 2022 UK Prime Minister's New Energy Plan By Carina Chan On 8 September, Prime Minister Liz Truss announced a new energy plan aimed at addressing the increasing energy prices faced by both...
Sep 12, 2022 Germany: BaFin publishes Q&As on SFDR to clarify outstanding application issues By Kathrin Hafner Roman Hoeck Nicola Zeibig In addition to the Q&As on the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 – SFDR) published by the EU...
Sep 09, 2022 Extraordinary decisions in extraordinary times: The German FCO is the first competition authority to allow competitor collaboration for gas shortages By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer Crisis management with a touch of ESG: The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) this week again demonstrated that it can act quickly and...
Sep 01, 2022 ESG Summer School: new podcasts on TCFD for asset managers and human rights disclosures By Sara Feijao Julia Voskoboinikova Gilly Hutchinson Welcome to the last installment in the Linklaters ESG Summer School 2022 dedicated to disclosure regimes across the globe. Each week over...