13 May, 2024 Issues for Boards and Financial Sponsors 2024: ESG aspects By Wilma Rix Sara Feijao Each year we prepare a publication focussed on providing practical insights for Boards and GCs, and also for Financial Sponsors and their...
30 Jan, 2024 Preparing for 2024 AGM season: a guide for UK-listed companies By Lucy Fergusson Wilma Rix Sara Feijao We have published AGMs Update - A guide for UK-listed companies in 2024, which focuses on on issues for UK listed companies to consider...
27 Nov, 2023 UK: ClientEarth fail to appeal ruling in Shell climate-related derivative action By Wilma Rix Sara Feijao The UK Court of Appeal has now definitively refused to allow ClientEarth to proceed with a proposed derivative action against the...
14 Aug, 2023 UK: FCA to consult on reporting for listed companies in line with ISSB standards in first half of 2024 By Sara Feijao On 10 August 2023, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Primary Market Bulletin 45, in which it confirmed (among...
07 Aug, 2023 Government publishes initial guidance on UK Sustainability Disclosure Standards By Sara Feijao The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has published initial guidance on the government's framework to create the UK Sustainability...
02 Aug, 2023 UK Court of Appeal confirms derivative action relating to climate change should not proceed By Rebecca Burton Faye Presland Wilma Rix Sara Feijao Lucy Fergusson +2 more... Show less In 2022, the High Court decided that an application for a common law derivative action against the directors of the USS (Universities...
26 Jul, 2023 UK High Court confirms that climate-related derivative action against Shell cannot proceed By Sara Feijao Wilma Rix Two separate UK court judgments in recent days have rejected claims that directors had failed in their duties because of their handling...
06 Apr, 2023 UK Green Day: key takeaways for corporates By Sara Feijao As the dust settles on the flurry of announcements made last week on 30 March as part of the UK government’s Green Day, we zero in on the...