Funmilayo Fenwa
- Jun 13
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...
Sam Cadd
- Apr 11
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...
James Anson-Holland
- Mar 31
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...
Ma Carla Mapalo
- Mar 10
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...
Funmilayo Fenwa
- Mar 6
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...
Pedro Arango
- Mar 6
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...
Gargi Bohra
- Feb 28
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...
Iqra Bawany
- Feb 16
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,...
Pedro Arango
- Nov 30, 2021
ESG & Biden’s Administration: Department of Labor's & the SEC's recent efforts to enhance ESG's role
Several legal barriers have prevented institutional investors (including the employee benefit plans subject to the Employee Retirement...
James Anson-Holland
- Nov 20, 2021
In Brief: Supreme Court to Determine Conflict of Laws Approach Under the FSIA
INTRODUCTION The Supreme Court of the United States recently granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of...