ESG Investments: Assessing the litigation and regulatory risk of ESG failings – Part 1: Litigation risk from investment “greenwashing”

Felicity Ewing of Dentons comments on the FCA’s concerns that certain unscrupulous firms are looking to cash in on investor appetite for ESG investment by simply putting a “green” wrapper around funds without true ESG credentials and warns that the risk of being held to account in litigation should not be under-estimated, as the combination of angered investors and claimant law firms and litigation funders looking for opportunities will likely be a dangerous cocktail. Read more.