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Blue Bonds: Making a splash in the Capital Markets
In 2018, the Republic of Seychelles launched the first-ever “blue bond”, with the support of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility.
Stewardship & Voting Guidelines 2025 (PLSA)
United Kingdom | Publication | January 2025
On January, 23, 2025, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) published the 2025 edition of its Stewardship & Voting Guidelines (2025 Guidelines).
In the 2025 Guidelines the PLSA considers, among other things: recent political and economic events with a direct impact on stewardship issues, the impact on shareholder rights of changes to the UK listing rules and AI developments, sustainable finance developments (including the PLSA’s efforts to increase focus on considering nature as part of good company practice), social factor developments (including the PLSA’s social factor case studies), and workforce developments (including issues such as maternity/paternity pay and leave policies and ethnicity and disability pay reporting).
The 2025 Guidelines are available on the member area of the PLSA website.
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Marine Money Week New York 2025
We are delighted to be participating in Marine Money Week New York 2025. As one of the landmark events for the global shipping finance community, and with the global shipping and maritime industry at such a pivotal juncture, we look forward to catching up with clients and contacts to continue discussions around navigating the current challenges and opportunities.
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The parallel imposition requirement in exclusive distribution systems: key takeaways from the CJEU’s ruling in Beevers Kaas
On 8 May 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJEU) delivered its ruling in case C-581/23 (the Ruling), providing guidance on one of the conditions for an exclusive distribution agreement to benefit from the block exemption under Article 4(b)(i) of the 2010 Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (the VBER)1, notably the so-called ‘parallel imposition requirement’.
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