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Background Sustainability initiatives and the green transition have led companies to query whether cooperation with competitors is compatible with competition law when it pursues a green objective. Eu...
Author(s): Kaori Yamada, Edward Dean, Hitoshi Nakajima
Background On 15 February 2024, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) published revised draft “Guidelines Concerning the Activities of Enterprises, etc. Toward the Realization of a Green Society und...
Today is an important day for climate litigation, marking the beginning of a series of oral hearings in the appeal proceedings of the landmark 2021 Shell judgment in which the District Court of The Ha...
Author(s): Moritz Becker, Simon Duncombe, Cat Greenwood-Smith, Juliane Hilf, Jonathan Isted, Mijke Sinninghe Damsté
After a lengthy and unusual period of intense political activity, the Council of the European Union has finally voted in favour of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The Cou...
Author(s): Christoph H. Seibt, Juliane Hilf, Mijke Sinninghe Damsté, Julia Förster, Marlen Vesper-Gräske, Lea Bareil, Iris Hammerschmid, Valentin Weigel
The European co-legislators have reached a provisional agreement on the Forced Labour Regulation, which has since been adopted by the working body of the Council (COREPER) and the two relevant committ...
Author(s): Hannah Meyer, Elena Engels, Annabelle Duramé
Climate litigation and other ESG risks are on the rise around the world for corporates and financial institutions. In the EU and UK a broad range of claims is emerging against companies, directors, p...
Author(s): Sharon Grennan
On Friday, March 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) stayed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) final rules on climate-related disclos...
Author(s): Pamela Marcogliese, Elizabeth Bieber, Zo Khalid, Heather Kellam, Jordan Phelan
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted its long anticipated rules, amending Regulations S-K and S-X to set forth the climate-related information that companies wi...