Jul 31, 2023 Demand for hyperscale data centres is surging but what are some of the key considerations for investors when negotiating with a ‘hyperscaler’? By Harriet Banner In its Data Centres 2023 Global Outlook, JLL predict that there will be more than 1,000 hyperscale data centre sites worldwide by the end...
Jul 31, 2023 What does the EU-US Data Privacy Framework mean for organizations on both sides of the Atlantic? By Rohan Massey Last week I was delighted to be invited to join the She Said Privacy/He Said Security podcast with Jodi Daniels of Red Clover Advisors...
Jul 31, 2023 UK moves towards optionality for payment for investment research By Eve Ellis Anna Lawry Dorota Maj Lewis Hammond +1 more... Show less Earlier this month saw the UK Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, confirm in his Mansion House speech that the UK Government has accepted all of the...
Jul 31, 2023 Lessons from Nigel Farage's SAR wars By Edward Machin It may not be immediately obvious but data protection is at the heart of what has been the biggest story in the UK during the past two...
Jul 31, 2023 New Zealand next on deck for corporate modern slavery reporting By Michael Littenberg Last summer, we wrote about the New Zealand government’s consultation on corporate modern slavery legislation. On Friday, the government...
Jul 31, 2023 Midyear perspectives on compliance in the Asia Pacific By Andrew Dale Management of compliance matters and internal investigations across the Asia Pacific have contributed to a busy first half of 2023. We do...
Jul 28, 2023 State anti-ESG laws create confusion when language is unclear By Joshua Lichtenstein As part of maintaining our state ESG tracking database and map, we focus closely on the terms various states have used to impose...
Jul 28, 2023 The Curious Debate about Retirement During ESG Month By Joshua Lichtenstein In following ESG month in congress, one thing that stood out to me is how much members of congress talked about the potential impact of...
Jul 28, 2023 House Financial Services Committee approves anti-ESG bills late Thursday night By Michael Littenberg Earlier this week, House Financial Services Committee Republicans introduced four anti-ESG bills. The Committee press release describes...
Jul 26, 2023 T+1 settlement may lead to wider spreads, causing ETF investors to pay more By Edward Baer The planned move to shorter settlement times for ETF shares is likely to increase costs for some ETF investors. ETFs that hold both US...
Jul 24, 2023 House ESG hearings wrap up – the SEC on the hot seat over climate risk disclosure and shareholder proposals By Michael Littenberg We have been closely following this month’s House Financial Services Committee hearings on ESG, in what has been styled as “ESG Month.”...
Jul 24, 2023 Does this judgment mean you should be preparing for distress-based GDPR claims? By Edward Machin The data protection discourse in recent weeks has been dominated by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework coming into force. Organisations...
Jul 21, 2023 Conflict Minerals Rule: Filing statistics released – How does your company stack up? By Michael Littenberg This week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its annual conflict minerals report. By statute, GAO is required to...
Jul 20, 2023 Co-investment trends: What we're seeing By Elizabeth Todd I had an enjoyable discussion with Bloomberg’s Swetha Gopinath last week, about the role of co-investments in private equity transactions...
Jul 20, 2023 OFAC and OFSI issue joint fact sheet on humanitarian assistance, food security and U.S./UK sanctions By Paige Berges Although U.S. and UK regulators have reiterated in various ways that activities by non-government organisations or international...
Jul 20, 2023 A second delay to the FCA’s publication of its Policy Statement for UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels By Eve Ellis Lewis Hammond The FCA has pushed back the publication of its Policy Statement on the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels...