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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 11 July 2025
On 1 July 2025, the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) published three new board committee guides to accompany the QCA Environmental and Social Guide published in December 2024.
The growing importance of ESG in mergers and acquisitions
Law360
The concept of environmental, social and governance issues is gaining importance, especially in deals. The buzzword of late, ESG's growing trend is largely due to heightened regulatory focus on disclosure and enforcement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the growing regulatory framework, acquirers, targets and investors should properly account for ESG in mergers and acquisitions. A company's ESG profile is typically represented by a score that is calculated from data surrounding specific metrics related to intangible assets.
ESG can be considered a corporate social credit score that is gaining more and more attention by investors — individual and institutional.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC recently conducted a survey that found over 90% of millennial investors were interested in sustainable investing. As millennials begin to comprise a larger segment of the total pool of investors, we can expect the importance of ESG investing to grow in tandem.
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Climate change litigation update
In the two years since our last climate litigation update, the prevalence and variety of global climate litigation around the world has continued to increase.
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L’AMF propose un encadrement pour l’usage de l’IA dans les services financiers : quelles obligations pour les institutions financières?
Selon un rapport conjoint du Bureau du surintendant des institutions financières (BSIF) et de l’Agence de la consommation en matière financière du Canada (ACFC), environ 70 % des institutions financières fédérales prévoient utiliser l’IA d’ici 2026 .
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