The importance of upholding confidentiality in mediation and settlement processes derives from the desire to encourage the settlement of disputes, protect express or implied agreements between parties, and to ensure the integrity of ADR processes more generally. In short, confidentiality in such processes allows parties to speak fully and frankly about all issues (both factual and legal) in a dispute when seeking compromise and, for the purpose of establishing a basis of com

Short-termism is currently a corporate governance concern. Data provides that the average holding period of public companies has been declining—from three to five years in 1960 to 1980 to around seventeen weeks in 2015. Some scholars suggest that the rise in short-term ownership may be linked to the increase in ownership of public companies by institutional investors. Most of these companies, especially the actively managed institutional investors, are believed to be “short-t

Now more than ever, companies are increasingly measured not only by their revenues, but also by the societal impact they have. As a result, impact investing has now become mainstream. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) estimates that the current size of the impact investing market hit $715 Billion in 2020. GIIN defines impact investing as any investments into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environment

Aware of the risks that climate change poses to humankind, hundreds of countries around the world signed in 2015 the so-called Paris Agreement, which sets forth the main goals and measures aimed to revert global warming, including reducing the worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases to net-zero by 2050 by undertaking in the long term a transition from fossil-fuel energies (such as coal, oil and natural gas) to renewable energies (such as solar and wind energy) (the “GW Goals”