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Two Strikes Against Board Diversity: What’s Next for Statutory Governance Initiatives?
May 17, 2022 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin
Who Should Be In Charge of Board ESG Responsibilities?
April 28, 2022 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin, Jacob Hupart, Megan Gates
Webinar Recording: A Closer Look at the SEC's Proposed Climate-Related Disclosures and Implications for Public Companies
April 6, 2022 | Webinar | By Megan Gates, Jacob Hupart, William F. Weld
In this webinar, former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, and Members Megan Gates and Jacob Hupart, examine key takeaways from the SEC’s proposed climate-related disclosures rule.
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ML Strategies Energy & Sustainability Washington Update — April 2022
March 30, 2022 | Blog | By R. Neal Martin
A Brief Summary of the SEC’s Proposed Climate-Related Rules
March 30, 2022 | Advisory | By Jacob Hupart, Megan Gates, William F. Weld, Doug Baumstein, Jennifer Rubin
How Investors Evaluate a Company’s ESG
March 24, 2022 | Blog
Investment funds that target companies with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies have experienced record growth. Yet it’s difficult for companies to know which ESG actions will affect the value of their stock. Although ESG rating providers focus on different ESG elements and market pricing of corporate ESG actions has been uneven, companies can take steps to influence how their ESG activity is valued.
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What Does ESG Mean for Your Organization?
March 3, 2022 | Webinar
In the latest discussion in our ESG webinar series, O’Kelly E. McWilliams III was joined by an informative panel featuring Katherine Grawe, Joe Aguilar, and Mamadou-Abou Sarr. In this webinar, our panelists explored how a variety of issues informed the deployment of ESG policies and shared best practices for putting ESG into action.
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Legal ESG Summit Resources
January 19, 2022 | Video | By Jennifer Rubin, Jacob Hupart
Learn from Mintz’s ESG subject matter experts as they explore what ESG really means for and within the legal profession, examine why law firms must embrace ESG as a business-critical priority, and share how law firm leadership can address ESG strategically and holistically.
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In-House Counsel’s Role in Bridging the Generation 'We' Gap
January 4, 2022 | Blog | By Jennifer Rubin
Mintz Member Jennifer Rubin authored an article published by Corporate Counsel exploring how a new generation of tech savvy, social justice-focused, and environmentally aware employee stakeholders are creating recruitment, retention, and other employment challenges. In the article, she wrote that corporate counsel can play a key role in managing and mitigating this human capital risk, not only in response to the growing environmental, social, and governance disclosure and regulation trends, but as part of the need to design future-proof legal frameworks for the workplace.
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What to Watch: ESG in Mergers and Acquisitions
November 30, 2021 | Article | By Kati P. Strzelczyk
In the world of Mergers and Acquisitions (“M&A”), both buyers and sellers are placing greater emphasis on Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) credentials.
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FINCEN Seeks the Assistance of Financial Institutions in the Fight Against Environmental Crimes
November 24, 2021 | Blog | By Pete Michaels, Michael Pastore
On November 18, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice “to call attention to an upward trend in environmental crimes and associated illicit financial activity.” This focus on environmental crimes is designed to help address FinCEN’s priorities previously announced on June 30, 2021.
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The Department of Labor’s ESG Proposed Rule: A Retirement Committee Perspective
November 12, 2021 | Blog
A recently proposed Department of Labor regulation entitled “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights” (the “Proposal”) addresses the duties of retirement plan fiduciaries when considering economically targeted investments – i.e., investments that take into account environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) factors. Issued in response to a May 20, 2021 Executive Order, the Proposal would significantly modify prior, Trump-era rules on the subject. This post examines the Proposal from the retirement committee perspective.
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Webinar Recording: Navigating the Rapidly Evolving ESG Landscape: Impacts, Implications, and Strategic Considerations
November 9, 2021 | Webinar | By Thomas R. Burton, III, Megan Gates
Join Tom Burton, Chair of the Mintz Energy & Sustainability Practice, Megan Gates, Chair of the Mintz Corporate Practice and Co-chair of the Mintz Securities & Capital Markets Practice, Dan Romito, Partner, Consulting – ESG Strategy & Integration at Pickering Energy Partners, and Sarah Borg-Olivier, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President at Instar Asset Management for a discussion on the practical considerations surrounding ESG.
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Spotlight on ESG Investing: The Importance of Understanding Environmental, Social and Governance Factors and Their Impact on Investing
October 19, 2021 | Article | By Jonathan L. Kravetz
Read about how institutional investors, proxy advisors, society, and asset managers are using their voting power to influence companies to adopt Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) governance factors and goals.
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Environmental Disclosures: Considerations for Board Members
September 17, 2021 | Blog | By Jacob Hupart, Megan Gates, Jonathan L. Kravetz, Doug Baumstein
Webinar Recording: "Social Innovation in a New World: A Rapid-Fire Overview"
June 23, 2021 | Blog
In a previously held webinar titled, "Social Innovation in a New World," Christopher Marquis, a professor who teaches about sustainable enterprises and management at the Cornell SCJ Johnson College of Business and author of Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism, and Benjamin Stone, a Mintz corporate attorney and a former social entrepreneur and executive, engage in a broad discussion of the social innovation landscape.
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Webinar Recording: What’s New in ESG?
June 23, 2021 | Webinar | By Jennifer Rubin
The Public Weighs In On How the SEC Should Regulate ESG Disclosures
June 22, 2021 | Blog | By Jacob Hupart, Ellen Shapiro
Call it a Comeback: The Likely Return of ESG Investing in ERISA Accounts
June 4, 2021 | Blog | By Pete Michaels, Alyssa C. Scruggs
Environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) investing has experienced quite the regulatory roller coaster in recent years.
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