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European Private Equity Market Recap – H1 2025

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Deal activity: Deal count has picked up through the first half of 2025, up 2% compared to the same period last year but still down 7% from H2 2024. With geopolitical tensions, investors and analysts alike are forecasting...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Client Feature — August 2025

This month, we’re pleased to feature our client, The Metals Company (TMC). TMC is a leading explorer of the world’s largest undeveloped resource of critical metals essential to energy, defense, manufacturing, and...more

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Capital Markets Insight: The Brazilian Sustainable Debt Market – A Cross-Border Regulatory Perspective

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As emissões de dívidas sustentáveis por empresas brasileiras nos mercados doméstico e internacional têm aumentado substancialmente. No exterior, o volume combinado de títulos verdes, sociais e sustentáveis emitidos por...more

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Capital Markets Insight: The Brazilian Sustainable Debt Market – A Cross-Border Regulatory Perspective

Sustainable debt issuances by Brazilian companies in both domestic and international markets have steadily increased. Abroad, the combined volume of green, social, and sustainability bonds issued by Brazilian corporates,...more

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Guidance for Including Methane Abatement in Oil and Gas Debt Structuring: Methane Finance Working Group Announces Release

The Methane Finance Working Group (“MFWG”) has released a guidance document titled: Guidance for Including Methane Abatement in Oil and Gas Debt Structuring (“Guidance”). MFWG is described as a coalition of financial,...more

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ESMA issues guidelines on the enforcement of sustainability information

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published official translations of the guidelines, on the enforcement of sustainability information under the Transparency Directive (for background, please see our...more

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FMSB Statement of good practice on the governance of sustainability-linked products

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The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has issued a Statement of Good Practice (SoGP) on the governance of sustainability-linked products (SLPs), along with a press release. SLPs are products where the financial and/or...more

Hogan Lovells

Tokenization for net zero: The opportunities and challenges of digitalizing voluntary carbon markets

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Climate change and digital innovation are two of the most defining forces shaping the future of global finance and indeed the future of humankind. As blockchain technology, tokenization, and AI continue to evolve at pace, we...more

Bennett Jones LLP

CSA Announces Pause on Climate-Related and Diversity-Related Disclosure Projects in Response to Global Market Uncertainty

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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has announced a pause to its work on developing new mandatory climate-related disclosures and amending diversity-related disclosure requirements, in light of recent significant...more

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SEC Approves First U.S. National Securities Exchange Focused On Sustainability

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the registration of the first U.S. “green” stock exchange—Green Impact Exchange (GIX)—with trading to begin in 2026....more

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ESMA publishes overview of planned consultations for 2025

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The European Securities and Markets Authority has published an overview of its planned consultations for 2025. The consultations relate to workstreams under the EU Listing Act,...more

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Sustainable Commercial Paper: Short-Term Paper, Long-Term Impact

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Over the past few years, we have seen growing interest in Commercial Paper (CP) programmes with a sustainable focus. Traditionally used by corporations, financial institutions, sovereigns, and other issuers for...more

K&L Gates LLP

Asset Management Regulatory Year in Review 2024

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2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

SEC Requests Oral Argument Not to Be Scheduled in the Litigation Challenging the Climate-Related Disclosures Rule

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In early March 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) finalized its climate-related disclosures rule (The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors) (the “Final Rule”)....more

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European Commission communication on EU competitiveness compass

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The European Commission has published a communication on a Competitiveness Compass for the EU, which sets out an action plan in response to the Draghi report published in September 2024. The communication sets out the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Loan Market Association Publishes Green Loan Terms, Smoothing Path for Green Finance in 2025

The green term sheet accompanies the provisions for green loans previously published at the end of 2024. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles continue to be a focus for the financial markets. Notably, the...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Energy & Sustainability M&A Activity — January 2025

December 4, 2024: Raise Green, an equity crowdfunding platform designed to facilitate businesses in raising capital for green infrastructure and clean energy projects, was acquired by Honeycomb Credit for an undisclosed...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

The EU Green Bond Standard

Christmas is coming early to the ESG bond market as the new EU Green Bond Standard applies from 21 December 2024. The new standard is conceptually similar to existing ICMA use of proceeds standards but quite different in...more

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Listing Act – Part 1: Prospectus Changes

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EU Listing Act package simplifies listing requirements and post-listing obligations. Targeted amendments to the Prospectus Regulation remove disproportionate complexity but preserve investor protection....more

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Inside the U.K.’s Transition Finance Market Review

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We were proud to provide market-leading expertise and legal support to the secretariat of the Transition Market Finance Review. The review explores how the U.K. can become a leading market for transition finance domestically...more

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Brussels Regulatory Brief: September 2024

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Antitrust and Competition - The Court of Justice of the European Union Finds That the European Commission Lacks Jurisdiction to Review Transactions That Fall Below the EU and National Merger Filing Thresholds -On 3 September...more

White & Case LLP

Growing government influence shapes the global business climate

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Governments are intervening to an ever-greater degree in market activities through a growing array of regulatory mechanisms, as well as through direct intervention. The justifications range from notions of national security...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Catalyzing Action: How Catalytic Capital Can Help Unlock Trillions in Climate Investment

Last month, after a meeting with the G20 financing ministers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that US$3 trillion of additive capital investment will be necessary each year (above and beyond business as usual)...more

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State of the Climate Tech Market

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As the summer break draws to a close and we reflect on the past few months, we must mention the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Paris. As well as being an exceptional display of athletic performance and inclusion, it...more

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Regulation Round Up - May 2024

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Key developments in May 2024: ESG: The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) updated its webpage on the sustainability disclosure requirements (“SDR”) and investments labelling regime. Among other things, the webpage has been...more

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