Live Breaking News & Updates on Proxy Season Preview 2021 Esg Considerations

On January 14, 2021, Laurel Hill Advisory Group
(
Laurel Hill ) and Fasken hosted a
webinar on ESG (environmental, social and governance)
considerations of which companies should be aware for the upcoming
2021 proxy season. The webinar s panelists were David Salmon of
Laurel Hill and Emilie Bundock, Stephen Erlichman and Grant
McGlaughlin of Fasken and was moderated by Gordon Raman of Fasken.
Set out below are some of the comments made by the speakers on the
webinar.
Background
The importance of ESG considerations in today s corporate
governance model has developed over the past 50 years. In the early
1970 s the Milton Friedman view of corporations was the ....

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