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ESG Gains Momentum: What Lawyers Need To Know Now

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 program ESG 2021: What It Means for Boards, Management, and Counsel, Meehan reports that interest in the topic is greater than ever this year, particularly as a growing number of Biglaw and other firms launch ESG-focused practices.

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A reckoning for Spacs: Will regulators deflate the boom?

A reckoning for Spacs: Will regulators deflate the boom? 13 minutes to read By: Miles Kruppa and Ortenca Aliaj At the beginning of this year, the space transportation start-up Momentus thought it would be well on its way towards its stated mission of revolutionising space infrastructure and the space economy . Instead, regulators intervened. Three months after Momentus announced a US$1.2 billion ($1.6b) merger with a special purpose acquisition company, Stable Road Acquisition Corp, the Securities and Exchange Commission told the companies they were under investigation for statements made about the transaction, according to filings made public last month. The merger, which would make Momentus one of the few publicly traded space companies, had been billed in October as a unique and compelling opportunity for investors. Momentus projected it would reach more than US$4b in revenues in 2027, including almost US$670 million in sales from a fleet of robotic vehi

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Meet the Stock Market s New Investors

Photograph by Gina LeVay David Nathanson remembers the moment when the frenzied and risky world of day trading took hold of him. While working at home in late January during the pandemic, his phone lit up with a text from a friend: “Look what’s happening with GameStop!” The 30-year-old software account exec from Brooklyn, N.Y., wasn’t totally new to investing when the troubled video game retailer became an overnight sensation earlier this year, going from a brick-and-mortar Wall Street laggard to a white-hot “meme” stock. In March 2020, to ward off lockdown boredom and stay connected to friends who were trading stocks on investing apps, he signed up with a discount broker.

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SEC chief plots first moves in new role

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler The SEC’s top official took office this week amid a yearlong financial market frenzy and a flood of novel investment products with unknown implications for the broader investment industry. The rise of popular online trading applications have drawn tens of thousands of new investors into the market with easy access to stocks, digital currencies, exchange traded funds and options. ADVERTISEMENT A flood of federal stimulus and the increasingly viral nature of investing epitomized by the GameStop short squeeze and a publicly traded New Jersey deli with less than $14,000 in annual sales have also helped fuel speculation across a rapidly expanding marketplace.

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Archegos exposes SEC blind spots, dithering on market oversight

Archegos exposes SEC blind spots, dithering on market oversight
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