Page 8 - Practising Law News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

May 17, 2021 at 12:06 PM Shares2 Companies, their boards, and regulators are increasingly focused on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) risks and opportunities. If you haven’t been paying attention to developments related to ESG, now is the time to start. “We began receiving requests from our members for ESG-focused programming a few years ago, as lawyers, compliance professionals, and others saw a need to build their knowledge,” says Seema Lal Meehan, Director, Special Projects and Senior Program Attorney at Practising Law Institute (PLI). The organizer of the upcoming PLI pro...

SPACs, NFTs Have Reached ‘Baseball Card Company Has Heard Of Us And Wants In’ Stage Of Oversaturation Needless to say, the SEC is concerned. Author: Needless to say, the SEC is concerned. From time to time in recent months, the Securities and Exchange Commission has felt compelled to weigh in on the special purpose acquisition company boom, generally in an unfavorable way, and often prompted by some or other head-scratching or slamming-into-a-brick-wall novelties appended to the general novelty of the blank-check company itself. And, well, the SEC has something else to say about SPA...