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A repository for the most well-read content on JD Supra at any given time, along with occasional roundups of popular content by specific topic. Also stop by for monthly recaps of hot articles for the previous thirty days. less -
Latham & Watkins LLP

Tackling Greenwashing: Singapore's Approach and APAC's Evolving Regulatory Landscape

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Singapore shows leadership in a diverse APAC market where the race is on to strengthen transparency in environmental claims and combat greenwashing....more

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2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Energy

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As an industry at the frontline of navigating a shifting policy backdrop under the new Trump administration, pre-imposition of “Independence Day” Tariffs, energy was experiencing a growth in interest from private equity...more

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)

Climate in context: Geopolitics, business, and the board

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In this collaboration between the KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) and Eurasia Group, our aim is to help widen the boardroom aperture on the global climate challenge—where it stands, and what’s at stake—and to help boards...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Republican AGs Target 53 Large Asset Managers' ESG Practices

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On March 30, 2023, 21 Republican Attorneys General (AGs) wrote a letter addressed to over 50 U.S. asset managers citing “concerns about the ongoing agreements between asset managers to use Americans’ savings to push political...more

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Climate Suit Against Directors of UK’s Largest Pension Plan Heads to Appeals Court

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A British appeals court will review the 2022 dismissal of a novel lawsuit accusing current and former directors of the United Kingdom’s largest private pension plan of mismanagement for, among other reasons, failing to divest...more

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FCA ESG Rules: The Next Deadline for U.K. Private Fund Managers

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In our previous client alert, Back to Work: The FCA's 2022-23 Priorities for Private Fund Managers, we mentioned the need for FCA-authorised private fund managers with assets under management (AuM) of over £5 billion and who...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

The UN Report On Climate Change: What Does It Have To Do With Cannabis And Wine In The US?

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Key Takeaways: •The recently released IPCC Report shows irreversible harm to the global ecosystem. •Fund managers focused on ESG criteria will have an increased focus on environmentally conscious companies and substantial...more

BCLP

Indonesia in Focus Newsletter - July 2021

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Indonesia’s efforts to achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) established in accordance with the Paris Agreement are still considered by Climate Tracker to be “Highly Insufficient”. Whilst this keeps them out...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Role Of ESG In PE Real Estate Investments

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Investors and their stakeholders are increasing the use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria to screen investments, causing private equity real estate investment managers to place more focus on measuring...more

White & Case LLP

New EU-Vietnam FTA Enters into Force

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A new landmark free trade agreement between Vietnam and the European Union entered into force on 1 August 2020.  The agreement provides expansive preferential treatment for both goods and services, recognition and protection...more

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The rise of the SDG CLO: How to use the bond market to deliver the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

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In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted 17 sustainable development goals to be achieved by 2030 ("SDGs"). The SDGs include ending poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality, tackling climate change and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Sea Change? What Does Trump’s Decision on the Paris Agreement Mean?

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This week, President Trump announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, describing it as “disadvantaging the United States” and indicating that the United States will “cease implementation”...more

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