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Climate Change and Caremark in the Context of Fossil-Fuel Companies

Pursuant to the Paris Agreement signed in 2015, hundreds of countries have committed to battle climate change and adopt measures aimed at...

Equator Principles: An Attempt Towards Sustainable Financing

Overview Large-scale development projects pose devastating impacts on the environment and local communities. To address the risks of...

Should Large Index Funds Invest More Assets in Engagement and Stewardship?

Background Index funds replicate existing stock indices by buying shares of the member firms of a particular index, and holding them...

Legal Update: Changes to the AML Landscape for Crypto Assets

Concern around the use of cryptoassets in connection with financial crime has intensified in recent years. A January report by...

CONFIDENTIALITY IN MEDIATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS – THE SECOND CIRCUIT’S PERSPECTIVE

The importance of upholding confidentiality in mediation and settlement processes derives from the desire to encourage the settlement of...

Tenure-Based Voting: Is it Worth Trying?

Short-termism is currently a corporate governance concern. Data provides that the average holding period of public companies has been...

Impact Investing: What is it and why consider it?

Now more than ever, companies are increasingly measured not only by their revenues, but also by the societal impact they have. As a...

Climate Change and Fiduciary Duties in the context of Fossil-Fuel Companies

Aware of the risks that climate change poses to humankind, hundreds of countries around the world signed in 2015 the so-called Paris...

Benefit Corporations: Doing Well and Doing Good

37 States and territories (including Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico) have passed legislation allowing corporations to be registered as...

Time’s up for Big Tech? — moving towards antitrust reform and regulation

For years, academics, policymakers and activists alike have been calling for harsher regulation on “Big Tech” such as Google, Facebook,...

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