ESG: Comparative Perspectives, New Controversies, and New Voices
*** Notice of Postponement ***
ESG: Comparative Perspectives,
New Controversies, and New Voices
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
08:30 - 14:30 EDT
Due to ongoing developments on campus, we regret to inform you that this event will be postponed until a later date. We sincerely apologise for the late notice and we thank you for your understanding. We look forward to re-announcing the event in the near future.
A new date will be added soon.
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Co-sponsored by Columbia Law School’s Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in collaboration with Broadridge and communications partner ECGI.
Join us for a conference on ESG
In memory of Millstein Center Founder and
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Senior Partner
Ira M. Millstein (1926 - 2024)
Over a few short years, “ESG” has gone from a good-governance nostrum to a hotly contested element of the US political landscape. This conference, which brings together insights from the legal academy, the practitioner community, the regulators, and the various institutions involved in shareholder voting, will offer a unique perspective on current ESG questions.
First: the US and EU have gone down quite different ESG paths. How so and why so? Second: the SEC’s “final” climate change disclosure rule is now under attack from various sides. What is the state of play? And irrespective of a litigation outcome, how will companies, especially multinationals, accommodate the diverse disclosure requirements of California, the SEC, the EU, and international standard setters like the ISSB? Third: in response to client and political pressures, asset managers have been working out systems of “pass-through voting” on various ESG-inflected proposals. How will these systems work and will they function as a meaningful channel for shareholder preferences?
The conference will feature introductory remarks by Jim Millstein (Co-Chairman, Guggenheim Securities, LLC) and a conversation with Erik Gerding (Director, Division of Corporation Finance, US Securities and Exchange Commission), moderated by Eric Talley (Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, Columbia Law School).
Those interested in attending in-person should contact Susanne Ridley at Columbia University (sr4030@columbia.edu)
Programme
Registration and Breakfast
Welcome Remarks
ESG Legislation and Regulation: E.U. vs. U.S.
Moderator
Speaker(s)
Break
Conversation with Erik Gerding
Moderator
Speaker(s)
Break
Lunch Session: ESG Landscape and Recent Developments in the U.S.
Moderator
Speaker(s)
Break
Pass-Through Voting and ESG
Moderator
Speaker(s)
Reception
Speakers
Jeffrey Gordon
Presentations
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Lunch Session: ESG Landscape and Recent Developments in the U.S.
Michael Gerrard
Lyuba Goltser
Chad Spitler -
Pass-Through Voting and ESG
John Roe
Danielle Gurrieri
Elizabeth KantrowitzAnd more (...)
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Conversation with Erik Gerding
Erik Gerding
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In Memoriam
As the Founding Chair of The Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School, Mr. Millstein’s dedication to Columbia University and academia generally was unwavering. In addition to his roles at Columbia University, he was also formerly the Senior Associate Dean for Corporate Governance and the Theodore Nierenberg Adjunct Professor of Corporate Governance at the Yale School of Management; Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law; and Fellow of the Faculty of Government at Harvard University's J.F.K. School of Government.