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Securities,
Environmental & Energy,
Corporate,
Administrative/Regulatory

Mar. 21, 2018

A sea change in climate change disclosure?

In years past, shareholder initiatives to enhance climate change reporting beyond this basic level of disclosure typically experienced defeat. But last year, several shareholder proposals succeeded.

Don J. Frost Jr.

Partner
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Email: don.frost@skadden.com

Don heads the firm's Environmental and Climate Change practices. He has a diverse transactional-based practice and a complex and broad-based environmental litigation and regulatory counseling practice.

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Thomas J. Ivey

Partner
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Email: tivey@skadden.com

Thomas represents clients in a broad range of corporate and securities law matters. He advises public and private companies in complex transactions, including the issuance of equity and debt, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, exchange offers and restructurings.

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Stacy E. Kray

Counsel
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Email: stacy.kray@skadden.com

Stacy has spearheaded Skadden's environmental work on hundreds of transactions and multiple litigation and regulatory matters.

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A sea change in climate change disclosure?
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In April 2016, as part of a broader inquiry into modernizing Regulation S-K, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission solicited comment on whether to require additional disclosure on environmental sustainability by public companies, including on risks and company policies relating to climate change. Although revision of Regulation S-K and substantive regulations relating to climate change appear to be unlikely under the Trump administration, other important develop...

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