About the Book
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the third edition of ICLG - Environmental, Social & Governance Law, published
by Global Legal Group.
This publication provides corporate counsel, international practitioners and other interested readers with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to the law and lore of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues around the world. The Guide is also available at www.iclg.com.
The Guide starts with nine expert analysis chapters exploring ESG considerations in relation to: the impact of the shifting geopolitical sands on board and management oversight and risk; UK pension schemes; greenwashing and socialwashing; asset management; private funds; project, energy and infrastructure finance; data gathering and disclosure; the Philippines Climate Change Report; and climate governance in Mexico.
The question and answer chapters cover 29 jurisdictions, providing detailed answers to common questions raised by professionals dealing with ESG issues. This publication has been written by leading ESG experts, for whose invaluable contributions the editors and publishers are extremely grateful.
Table of Contents:
1 Seeing Around Borders: Is Geopolitics the Next Big ESG Risk? David M. Silk & Carmen X. W. Lu, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 7 ESG and UK Pension Schemes: A Matter of Governance Andy Lewis & Jonathan Gilmour, Travers Smith LLP 11 Greenwashing and Socialwashing: Key Global Developments Ben Rubinstein, Mark Smyth, Iria Calvino & Rebecca Perlman, Herbert Smith Freehills 18 ESG for Asset Managers Julien Bourgeois, Mikhaelle Schiappacasse, Tyler Payne & Stanley Tiu, Dechert LLP 27 U.S. Legal and Compliance Issues Relating to ESG for Private Fund Advisers Debra Franzese, Nicholas R. Miller, S. John Ryan & Micky Simon, Seward & Kissel LLP 33 ESG Considerations in Project, Energy, and Infrastructure Finance Matt H. Ahrens, Allan T. Marks, Pinky P. Mehta & Allison E. Sloto, Milbank LLP 42 Practical Steps for Board and Management Supervision of ESG Data Gathering and Disclosure John W. White, Matthew Morreale & Michael L. Arnold, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP 50 Philippines Climate Change Report: Implications for Carbon Majors Seth Kerschner, Clare Connellan, Suzanne Knijnenburg & Brittany Curcuru, White & Case LLP 55 Developing Climate Governance in Mexican Boards of Directors Yves Hayaux du Tilly, Hector Arangua & Ana Paula Telleria, Nader, Hayaux & Goebel 58 Austria Wolf Theiss: Sarah Wared, Florian Kusznier & Claus Schneider 64 Brazil TozziniFreire Advogados: Adriana Mathias Baptista, Andre Antunes Soares de Camargo, Clara Pacce Pinto Serva & Vladimir Miranda Abreu 71 Canada Stikeman Elliott LLP: Vanessa Coiteux, Ramandeep K. Grewal & Catherine Grygar 85 China DeHeng Law Offices: Hui (Harrison) Jia, Junbo Song & Yuanyuan Zheng 92 France Signature Litigation: Sylvie Gallage-Alwis & Gaetan de Robillard 98 Germany lindenpartners: Nils Ipsen & Lars Roeh 105 Hong Kong Dentons: Vivien Teu 117 India Trilegal: Sanjam Arora & Jagrati Gupta 127 Ireland Maples Group: Peter Stapleton, Ronan Cremin & Jennifer Dobbyn 134 Israel Herzog, Fox & Neeman: Livnat Ein-Shay Wilder, Janet Levy Pahima, Liat Maidler & Nahum Mittelman 143 Italy ADVANT Nctm: Riccardo Sallustio, Michele Bignami & Raffaele Caldarone SustainAdvisory srl: Francesca Fraulo 154 Japan Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu: Kiyoshi Honda 160 Kenya Ashitiva Advocates LLP: Caroline Karugu & Dr. Godwin Siundu KNOW Advocates LLP: Jennifer Nduati 166 Korea Kim & Chang: Hye Sung Kim & June Yong Lee 173 Luxembourg Maples Group: Michelle Barry & Johan Terblanche 180 Mexico Galicia Abogados, S.C.: Carlos Escoto, Marianela Romero Aceves & Jose Alejandro Cortes Serrano 188 Netherlands De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V.: Davine Roessingh & Dennis Horeman 196 Nigeria Famsville Solicitors: Dayo Adu, Temiloluwa Dosumu & Esther Randle 203 Norway BAHR: Svein Gerhard Simonnaes, Asle Aarbakke & Lene E. Nygard 209 Poland Wolf Theiss: Joanna Gasowski, Marcin Rudnik, Tomasz Stasiak & Peter Daszkowski 218 Portugal PRA - Raposo, Sa Miranda & Associados: Joana de Sa, Pedro Braz, Leila Gracio & Angela Bento 226 Singapore WongPartnership LLP: Quak Fi Ling & Tiong Teck Wee 233 South Africa Bowmans: Ezra Davids & Ryan Kitcat 241 Spain RocaJunyent: Inigo Cisneros 248 Sweden Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra: Patrik Marcelius, Cecilia Bjoerkwall & Joel Palm 255 Switzerland Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd: Christoph Vonlanthen, Lorenzo Olgiati, Giulia Marchettini & Fabio Elsener 263 Taiwan Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law: Ken-Ying Tseng, Helen Hai-Ning Huang, Alice Chang & Tina Wei 268 United Kingdom Macfarlanes LLP: Rachel Richardson & Riley Forson 277 USA Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz: David M. Silk & Carmen X. W. Lu
