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Real Estate Focus - December 2024
December has been a very busy month, with a flurry of new government policies and consultations.
The growing importance of ESG in mergers and acquisitions
Law360
The concept of environmental, social and governance issues is gaining importance, especially in deals. The buzzword of late, ESG's growing trend is largely due to heightened regulatory focus on disclosure and enforcement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In the growing regulatory framework, acquirers, targets and investors should properly account for ESG in mergers and acquisitions. A company's ESG profile is typically represented by a score that is calculated from data surrounding specific metrics related to intangible assets.
ESG can be considered a corporate social credit score that is gaining more and more attention by investors — individual and institutional.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC recently conducted a survey that found over 90% of millennial investors were interested in sustainable investing. As millennials begin to comprise a larger segment of the total pool of investors, we can expect the importance of ESG investing to grow in tandem.
Recent publications
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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 20 December 2024
On 13 December 2024 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Primary Market Bulletin 53 (PMB 53) which includes confirmation of the final form of two new, and one amended, sponsor-related technical notes previously consulted on in PMB 50, and a consultation on various proposed changes to the technical and procedural notes in the FCA’s knowledge base.
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Dashboards update: webinars hosted by Pensions Regulator and Money and Pensions Service
The Regulator has provided a link to its dashboard webinar held on November 26, 2024, which it urges scheme trustees to watch. The Money and Pensions Service also collaborated with the Pensions Dashboard Programme to host a “town hall” dashboard event on December 2, 2024.
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