Aug 31, 2023 Republican state AGs call on SEC to require forced labor certifications By Michael Littenberg Sixteen Republican state attorneys general have sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling on the agency to...
Aug 31, 2023 The “Summer of CSRD” series – disaggregated reporting By Michael Littenberg The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will have broad impact. Approximately 50,000 undertakings are expected to have a...
Aug 30, 2023 Recent SEC C&DI updates for 10b5-1 plans By Daniel Forman Christopher Capuzzi On August 25, 2023, the SEC staff issued some clarifying Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation or “C&DI” updates on 10b5-1 plans and...
Aug 30, 2023 New SEC private fund adviser rules explained By Melissa Bender The SEC's much anticipated private fund reforms were adopted on August 23, 2023. The reforms include: Several quarterly reporting...
Aug 30, 2023 Next frontiers for drug pricing – an international analysis By Lincoln Tsang In this book chapter, published in Pricing and Reimbursement 2023 by Global Legal Insights, Margaux Hall, Katherine Wang and I explore...
Aug 30, 2023 The “Summer of CSRD” series – ten key points from EFRAG’s recent materiality assessment guidance By Michael Littenberg The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will have broad impact. Approximately 50,000 undertakings are expected to have a...
Aug 30, 2023 D.C. Circuit Court vacates the SEC's denial of GBTC's exchange listing By Edward Baer In what is being viewed as a big win for the crypto industry in general, and for the sponsors of potential spot bitcoin ETPs in...
Aug 29, 2023 The “Summer of CSRD” series – mandatory and materiality-based disclosures By Michael Littenberg The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will have broad impact. Approximately 50,000 undertakings are expected to have a...
Aug 29, 2023 Ireland introduces enhanced merger control powers By Dervla Broderick Ruchit Patel The Competition (Amendment) Act 2022 (the “2022 Act”), which will enter into force in September 2023, introduces a number of new...
Aug 29, 2023 The “Summer of CSRD” series – the materiality assessment process By Michael Littenberg The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will have broad impact. Approximately 50,000 undertakings are expected to have a...
Aug 25, 2023 The “Summer of CSRD” series – understanding materiality By Michael Littenberg The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will have broad impact. Approximately 50,000 undertakings are expected to have a...
Aug 25, 2023 The “Summer of CSRD” series – qualitative characteristics of reported information By Michael Littenberg The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will have broad impact. Approximately 50,000 undertakings are expected to have a...
Aug 23, 2023 The “Summer of CSRD” series – categories of ESRS standards, reporting areas and drafting conventions By Michael Littenberg The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive will have broad impact. Approximately 50,000 undertakings are expected to have a...
Aug 22, 2023 Private funds in Asia – 2023 midyear insights By Chune Loong Lum Vincent Ip Looking back at the first half of 2023, we have reached a key milestone in marking the first full six months of mainland China reopening...
Aug 18, 2023 This summer’s most important ESG read? (hint: it’s not a Ropes & Gray publication) By Michael Littenberg There is no shortage of ESG regulations, standards, frameworks, guidance, white papers, news articles, blog posts, etc. to read. They...
Aug 17, 2023 NYC pension plans strike back against anti-ESG activist suit over fossil fuel divestment By Robert Skinner Amy Roy In one of the first private lawsuits to attack ESG-related investing practices, three New York City pension plans have filed papers...