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- Renata J. Ferrari
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- Byron Georgiou
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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
The Global Sustainability Footprint of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Over the last 15 years and especially around the time of the financial crisis, interest in and attention to the investment policies of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have grown. According to the SWF Institute, global assets under management by SWFs have exceeded $8 trillion, and the Norway Government Pension Fund Global manages over $1 trillion […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Comparative Corporate Governance & Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Empirical Research, ESG, Institutional Investors, International Corporate Governance & Regulation
Tagged Corporate Social Responsibility, Engagement, Environmental disclosure, ESG, Institutional Investors, International governance, Ownership, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Sustainability
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The 2020 Boardroom Agenda
Introduction The role of the board of directors and its committees is rapidly and constantly expanding. New matters seem to arise all the time, and the board is viewed, in the court of public opinion if not in courts of law, as being responsible for everything the company does or does not do. As both […]
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Posted in ESG, Institutional Investors, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Board composition, Board oversight, Board performance, Boards of Directors, Corporate culture, Cybersecurity, Diversity, Engagement, ESG, Institutional Investors, Sustainability
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Recent Developments in Charges of Insider Trading
In a recent decision, the Second Circuit in United States v. Blaszczak may have made the prosecution of insider trading significantly easier by ruling that the government is not required to prove that an insider received any “personal benefit” in exchange for sharing material, nonpublic information with a trader when the crime is charged under […]
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Posted in Court Cases, Practitioner Publications, Securities Litigation & Enforcement
Tagged Insider trading, Securities enforcement, Securities litigation, Supreme Court, U.S. federal courts
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Sinclair Broadcast: Designation of a Special Litigation Committee
Several decisions in 2019 addressed special litigation committees (“SLCs”), including one out of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. In that federal case, Judge Catherine Blake considered technical and policy issues around the designation of such a committee by the board of directors of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (“Sinclair Broadcast”) in connection […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, Boards of Directors, Mergers & Acquisitions, Practitioner Publications, Securities Litigation & Enforcement, Securities Regulation
Tagged Acquisition agreements, Board independence, Boards of Directors, Disclosure, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, Securities litigation, Shareholder suits, Special committees, State law
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2020 Global and Regional Corporate Governance Trends
Introduction and Background For the first time, in 2020, we see the focus on the “E” and the “S” of environment, social and governance (ESG) as the leading trend globally, including in the United States, where it traditionally has not received as much attention by boards. Indeed, many of the key global trends for 2020, […]
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Posted in Boards of Directors, ESG, International Corporate Governance & Regulation, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Board composition, Board oversight, Boards of Directors, Corporate culture, Diversity, ESG, EU, Europe, Human capital, International governance, Management, Shareholder activism, UK
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BlackRock Nudges Companies Toward a Common Standard (SASB + TCFD)
A common concern among companies, investors, asset managers and other stakeholders considering voluntary ESG-related disclosures is the lack of a uniform standard that would permit reliable and consistent comparability. In yesterday’s annual letter to CEOs, BlackRock’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink advocated for standardized and accelerated sustainability disclosures and endorsed both the industry-specific […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, ESG, Institutional Investors, Practitioner Publications
Tagged BlackRock, Climate change, Disclosure, Engagement, Environmental disclosure, ESG, Institutional voting, Long-Term value, Shareholder proposals, Stewardship, Sustainability
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Testimony by PCAOB Chairman William D. Duhnke before the House Committee on Financial Services
Chairman Sherman, Ranking Member Huizenga, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the important work of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). I joined our five-member board in early 2018, along with four other new board members. Not since the PCAOB was first […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, Practitioner Publications, Securities Litigation & Enforcement, Securities Regulation
Tagged Accountability, Accounting, Accounting standards, Audits, Disclosure, Financial reporting, Financial technology, Oversight, PCAOB, Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Securities enforcement, Securities regulation
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Weekly Roundup: January 10-16, 2020
Debt-Equity Conflict and the Incidence of Secured Credit Posted by Barry E. Adler (New York University) and Vedran Capkun (HEC Paris), on Friday, January 10, 2020 Tags: Bankruptcy, Debt, Debtor-creditor law, Distressed companies CalSTRS Green Initiative Task Force Annual Report Posted by Kirsty Jenkinson, California State Teachers’ Retirement System, on Friday, January 10, 2020 Tags: Boards of Directors, CalSTRS, Climate change, Environmental disclosure, ESG, Institutional Investors, Pension funds, Proxy […]
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