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Senior Consultant, Simon Witney, and Consultant, Sarah-Jane Denton, explore the effect that environmental reform will have on the alternative asset management industry. 

Our ESG timeline sets out recent and expected UK and EU legal and regulatory developments relating to ESG and wider sustainable business topics. The timeline can be filtered according to your business type or the relevant ESG theme.

The European Commission recently unveiled its long-awaited proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence, which is designed to tackle human rights and environmental impacts across value chains (the "CSDD").

In the third and final episode of the series, Knowledge Counsel Adam Rice and Associate Shani Edwards discuss employment contracts and changing terms.

Towards the end of last year, in Smith v Fonterra [2021] NZCA 552 ("Fonterra"), New Zealand's Court of Appeal provided a counterweight ruling to the Dutch Milieudefensie claim (on which, see our briefing). 

In the second episode of our Talking. Sustainability. podcasts on "substance", Tax Associate Tom Margesson and Tax Knowledge Counsel Laura Hodgson discuss a recent policy proposal: the EU's draft Directive targeting the misuse of 'shell entities' (also referred to as 'ATAD III').

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry. 

Our annual briefing highlighting the key 2021 legal developments which impact the funds' industry and previews what can be expected in 2022.

Travers Smith LLP has advised RBS International, Jersey Branch (RBSI) on a €210 million sustainability-linked revolving credit facility provided to Europa Capital, on behalf of its latest value add fund, Europa Fund VI. This is the largest sustainability-linked loan RBS International has provided in the real estate sector.

In this episode, Knowledge Counsel Anna West, Senior Associate Moji Oyediran and Associate Elliot Roberts take a look at some of the key developments in recruitment and retention. Due to current labour shortages and what has been termed 'the great resignation', recruiting and retaining employees has and continues to be a key priority for many businesses.

Welcome to the first episode in our new series of short videos: 'Talking. Sustainability.'.

This series of short videos is a chance for you to hear from various lawyers across our firm on the key legal issues businesses should be thinking about when setting their own sustainability strategies.  

In this episode, Senior Counsel Ailie Murray and Associate Tom Hunt take a look at a variety of topics and cases relating to diversity and inclusion. The inequalities in society continue to be highlighted by the pandemic and there have been a number of recent changes in this area, making it a key priority for many businesses.

The long-awaited Environment Act was finally passed into law in November 2021, nearly three years after a bill was first proposed to govern environmental matters after the UK's departure from the EU. The Act's passage was accompanied by a degree of fanfare, with ministers describing it as "the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth".

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry. 

The Alpha and Omega of Regulation (via Omicron)?

Having said goodbye to another year of headlines dominated by COVID-19, with a Christmas and New Year overshadowed by a mixture of good and bad news about Omicron, it's not yet clear what degree of optimism about the year ahead is justified. At the very least, it is to be hoped that the World Health Organisation will not find it has to exhaust the Greek alphabet in naming any future new variants of concern.

On 17 December 2021, the FCA published two policy statements confirming final rules and guidance to promote improved climate-related financial disclosures. Such measures are aimed at helping to inform market pricing and support business decision-making, with the ultimate goal of assisting consumers in making more informed investment decisions.