Daily Compliance News: August 15, 2025, The Privilege Protected Edition
FCPA Compliance Report - Episode 770 - Integrating ESG in Global Outsourcing: Insights from Inge Zwick
On Demand, On Purpose: Fashion Manufacturing That Doesn’t Cost the Earth
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
Understanding Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery: A Business Imperative with Clint Palermo
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Navigating Fiduciary Responsibilities in a Tide-Turning ESG Era
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 18 - The Reshaping of ESG & DEI
Compliance into the Weeds: More Compliance Challenges in the Trump Era
Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Sectoral Trends
Environmental and Sustainability Regulations & the New Administration
Podcast - Beyond Compliance: A Deep Dive into Carbon Markets Fraud and the Government's Response
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 17 - The Evolution of ESG Enforcement Under the SEC
Navigating ESG: Preparing for Future Regulations (Part Two) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Regulatory Uncertainty: Benefits-Related Legal Challenges in a Post-Chevron World — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Navigating ESG: The Growing Importance and Compliance Challenges (Part One) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 16: The Political and Legal Maze of ESG in the U.S. and Abroad
Episode 326 -- Dottie Schindlinger on Diligent's Report on Board Oversight of Cybersecurity Risks and Performance
Why ESG Matters?
JONES DAY TALKS®: ESG Reporting Rules: The SEC, CSRD, and California– Who's on the Hook?
ESG Masterclass — Legal Risks Hiding in Your DEIB Programming
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Le 18 décembre 2024, le Conseil canadien des normes d’information sur la durabilité (le « CCNID »), lequel menait des travaux depuis juin 2023 visant à mettre en place un cadre relatif à la durabilité au Canada, a publié les...more
The latest edition of Davies’ Governance Insights is now available. In this issue, we review 10 developments that general counsel and directors of Canadian public companies, and their investors, should know for 2025 and...more
In preparation for the upcoming 2025 proxy season, issuers should familiarize themselves with the updated Canadian proxy voting guidelines recently published by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass, Lewis &...more
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1 Setting the Scene – Sources and Overview - 1.1 What are the main substantive ESG-related regulations and who is driving the regulatory agenda in your jurisdiction? Originally Published in the International Comparative...more
Despite a strong start to the year, activist activity in Canada in 2024 tapered to pre-pandemic levels. This reversion to more historic annual totals follows a notable resurgence of shareholder demands directed at Canadian...more
On March 13, 2024, the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board (CSSB) released exposure drafts of its first two proposed Canadian Sustainability Disclosure Standards (Proposed Standards). The Proposed Standards are based on...more
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1 Setting the Scene – Sources and Overview - 1.1 What are the main substantive ESG-related regulations? There are a variety of environmental, social and governance (“ESG”)-related regulations applicable to federally...more
The Royal Bank of Canada announced that this year it will begin incorporating ESG considerations into incentive compensation plans for the bank’s CEO and other top executives. In particular, the bank plans to take ESG...more
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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis Canadian company updates for the 2023 proxy season continue to focus on board diversity and oversight of climate risk. Other issues considered include overboarding,...more
In recent years, there has been a distinct increase in climate-related shareholder activism with shareholder proposals and other initiatives on climate-related topics becoming prominent world-wide. On May 12, 2022,...more
Environment, social and governance (ESG) and gender diversity remain in focus as Glass Lewis publishes Proxy Voting Guidelines for 2022; board composition, share structure and incentive awards also addressed, among others....more
1. Setting the Scene – Sources and Overview - 1.1. What are the main substantive ESG-related regulations? There are a variety of ESG-related regulations applicable to federally and provincially incorporated companies;...more
Introduction - Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently published its 2022 updates to its benchmark proxy voting policies. The policies will govern ISS’ voting recommendations for shareholder meetings held on or...more
Les sociétés canadiennes subissent de plus en plus de pression pour augmenter le nombre de femmes dans leur conseil d’administration et leur équipe de haute direction. Il semblerait, en fait, que les sociétés dont le conseil...more
Canadian companies are facing growing pressure to increase the representation of women on their boards and in executive officer positions. There is evidence that suggests that companies with a greater balance of women on...more
Sustainability-linked loans are loan products designed to reward a borrower with improved pricing for achieving predefined sustainability performance targets related to environmental, social and/or governance-related...more
The Equator Principles (EPs) is a set of ten voluntary principles or guidelines established to assist financial institutions with identifying, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in international and domestic...more
Growing investment in technology (AgTech) and innovation, Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) and Export and Trade are three of the big trends coming out of Canada's Agriculture Summit held in Calgary recently....more