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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Cadwalader Climate - May 2024 #4

In this week’s edition, we look in detail at ESMA’s final guidelines on ESG and sustainability-related fund names. Staying with the regulatory guidance theme, we look at the Science Based Targets initiative’s announcement of...more

Dechert LLP

ESMA Publishes Guidelines on Funds' Names Using ESG or Sustainability-Related Terms

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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

Proskauer Rose LLP

Regulation Round Up - April 2024

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Financial Markets Infrastructure: The Bank of England published a speech by Sasha Mills, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, on operational resilience and its expectations of financial market infrastructures...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Preparing for Investment (and Success) as an Early-Stage Alternative Protein Business

Our last two alerts in this series covered key considerations for early-stage companies in the alternative protein industry and provided an overview of financing in the alternative protein industry. This alert follows those...more

Mayer Brown

CVM publica orientações sobre a integração de fatores ASG aos procedimentos de suitability

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Essa semana (26/12), a Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) publicou o Ofício Circular Conjunto nº 1/2023/CVM/SIN/SMI (Ofício), direcionado às pessoas habilitadas a atuar como integrantes do sistema de distribuição e...more

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UAE looks to sustainable finance to boost transition

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There is a growing awareness and demand in the UAE for sustainable investment opportunities. To meet this demand, Jodi Norman and Will Tunstall-Prince explain how recent reforms are now putting sustainable finance at the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

ESG in 2023: A Mid-Year Review

As predicted in our February 1, 2023, client alert, “ESG in 2022 and Predictions for 2023,” a global economic slowdown and ongoing backlash in the U.S. have slowed the momentum of some aspects of the environmental, social and...more

Paul Hastings LLP

EU ESG Framework – latest developments and further clarifications on greenwashing and sustainable investments

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Over the last few months, the European Commission and the European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”) have published a number of press releases and reports that aim to clarify and provide further updates on concepts used within...more

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Is the market ready for SFDR 1.5? ESAs propose changes to SFDR RTS

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On 12 April 2023 – less than four months after the RTS under SFDR came into effect and four weeks after a further amended version of the RTS went live, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published a consultation...more

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The OSC’s Statement Of 2023-24 Priorities: A Focus On Evolving Markets and Changing Investor Attitudes

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The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has released its 2023-24 draft Statement of Priorities, in which the OSC furthers previous goals, but with renewed focus on emerging trends and drivers of change – including financial...more

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ESG Risks for Financial Institutions Operating in the United States: What to Expect in 2022

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ESG considerations will continue to play an ever-increasing role in financial markets in 2022. ESG-related transactions will continue to present significant opportunities for financial institutions as they respond to and...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Regulation Round Up - November 2021

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published a corrigendum from the European Commission to a set of answers on the application of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU/2019/2088) (“SFDR”)....more

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Financial institutions M&A: Specialty Finance/Marketplace Lending

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Financial institutions M&A sector trends: specialty finance/marketplace lending — H1 2021 and outlook for H2 2021 - M&A levels dipped in H1 2021. Whilst institutional banks backed trade and B2B finance platforms and VC...more

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Overview of the European Sustainability Taxonomy Regulation

Introduction - On 15 April 2020, the Council of the European Union published a press release stating that it had reached political agreement on the regulation on the establishment of an EU-wide framework designed to...more

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