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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Global Bank Sued in France Over Fossil Fuel Financing

On February 23, three climate advocacy groups—Friends of the Earth France, Notre Affaire à Tous and Oxfam France—filed a lawsuit alleging that a global financial institution violated Article L. 225-102-4.-I of the French...more

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“The reputation of everyone involved is at stake.”

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Will unsustainable companies have difficulty accessing financing in the future? Banks and financial institutions are increasingly offering financing based on ESG criteria. Originally published in German ESG Magazine ( ESGz...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Could the LIV Golfers Have Changed the World? Exploiting Leverage in Contracting.

The current debate in golf is simple when you get right down to it, is someone going or aren’t they? How much money are they taking? Will this end the PGA? Is a merger a foregone conclusion?...more

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Notable Ruling: Alien Tort Statute Focus in Aiding and Abetting

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On Tuesday, October 23, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important opinion reviving a decade-old Alien Tort Claims Act (ATS) suit based on alleged aiding and abetting slave labor in cocoa farms on the Ivory...more

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The Warsaw office of Hogan Lovells represents the Malta Foundation in a dispute with the Ministry of Culture regarding the limits...

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Based on the agreement between the Malta Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry committed itself to co-finance the theatre festival organized by the Foundation over the years 2016 to 2018. The Ministry unjustly...more

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The responsibility to respect human rights in the banking sector

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The question of how the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) should apply to the banking and financial services sector is one that is attracting increasing attention. Indeed, the dialogue has intensified...more

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