Ma Carla Mapalo
- Jul 12, 2022
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...
Funmilayo Fenwa
- Jun 13, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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...