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LJN Webinar Series: Business Crimes - Climate Change Risk: The New SEC Disclosure Rules


Level: Advanced
Runtime: 57 minutes
Recorded Date: October 13, 2022
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Agenda

  • Financial Risks of Climate Change Risks
  • The SEC's Proposed Rule
  • Potential Legal Attacks
  • Funds & Investors
  • What's to Do Now?
Runtime: 1 hour
Recorded: October 13, 2022

For NY - Difficulty Level: For experienced attorneys only (non-transitional)
For NY - Difficulty Level: Experienced attorneys only (non-transitional)

Description

Given the massive amount of dollars being poured into ESG funds and the SEC’s renewed focus on both the funds and the companies in the funds, there is no time like the present for companies to engage in an assessment of their climate risks and how these risks and the status of the companies’ ESG goals are being relayed to investors.

This program was recorded on October 13th, 2022 as part of Law Journal Newsletter's Webinar Series.

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Panelists

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Addison P. Berry

Senior Advisor
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Addison is a senior advisor with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.’s Energy and Environmental and Infrastructure practices and is based in the firm’s offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Addison provides strategic planning, project management and business development support to a broad range of clean energy organizations, including renewable energy producers, electric vehicle manufacturers, utilities and technology companies.

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Jacqueline Wolff

Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Jacqueline is a partner in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.’s Investigations and White Collar Defense practice, a member of the financial services team and resident in the New York office. For more than 30 years, she has successfully defended companies and individuals accused of white collar crimes and False Claims Act (FCA) violations. A former federal prosecutor in the Frauds Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, Jacqueline focuses her practice on defending individuals and companies before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in investigations of fraud-based crimes, most often in the financial services, health care and life sciences industries. She has also successfully defended multiple clients in FCA cases resulting in declinations from the government, resolutions as overpayment cases and, where the government decided not to intervene, outright dismissals of the qui tam. Jacqueline has also represented corporate clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small venture capital firms in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and worked with these clients to create and improve existing FCPA and anti-corruption compliance programs. While in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jacqueline received numerous awards, including from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Attorney General of the United States. Jacqueline writes regularly for and is on the Editorial Board of the Business Crimes Bulletin, and she serves on the New York Regional Leadership Council for Brady United.


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