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March 22, 2022 - Resources
ESG: Navigating the Board’s Role Spring 2022 Course
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac
ESG: Navigating the Board’s Role Spring 2022 Course Berkeley Law and Ceres will be hosting a course on ESG: Navigating the Board’s Role, starting on April 5th. Morrison & Foerster recommends this course for corporate directors and aspiring board members who would like to
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January 28, 2021 - Reporting, Resources
ISS, Glass Lewis, and Now Nasdaq – Board Diversity Is Here
By: Jackie Liu
On December 1, 2020, the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) proposed to adopt listing rules related to board diversity after determining that the national market and the public interest would benefit from a regulatory framework designed to promote “meaningful and multi-dimensional diversification of their
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December 08, 2020 - Resources
First Steps toward Recovery: Saving Small Businesses
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac
Suz Mac Cormac spoke to the Little Hoover Commission for the Commission’s new report on the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and small business recovery. Suz shared her perspective on how California can support small enterprises and her work spearheading the CA Rebuilding Fund
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December 07, 2020 - Resources
Climate Links 12/7/2020
MoFo’s weekly Climate Links provide the latest industry updates from thought-leaders and third-party sources. This week: Future of Sustainability in Investment Management: From Ideas to Reality , CFA Institute The CFA Institute develops a narrative about the history and current state of sustainable investing
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November 24, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Resources
Morrison & Foerster Spearheads Launch of California Rebuilding Fund
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac, Linda A. Arnsbarger and Michael P. Santos
California Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the launch of The California Rebuilding Fund (the Fund), a program built to support California’s smallest businesses so they can adapt, reopen, and recover from the effects of COVID-19. The California Rebuilding Fund is a public-private partnership that
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November 20, 2020 - Resources
Climate Links 11/20/20
MoFo’s weekly Climate Links provide the latest industry updates from thought-leaders and third-party sources. This week: How the Platform on Sustainable Finance Will Help Define our Green Future, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 2020. The newly formed Platform on Sustainable Finance, a building block
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October 21, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Resources
Impactful Conversations: Discussing Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)
By: Michael P. Santos
In this episode of Impactful Conversations, Michael Santos, a social enterprise and impact investing associate in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office, interviews Bulbul Gupta, the president and CEO of Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), a Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) fund based in Oakland,
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September 30, 2020 - Funding - Financing, Resources
Impactful Conversations: A Conversation with Andrew Macintosh at March Fund
By: Susan H. Mac Cormac
In this episode of Impactful Conversations, Susan Mac Cormac, the chair of MoFo’s Energy and Social Enterprise and Impact Investing practices, interviews Andrew Macintosh, the COO and CFO of the March Fund—a tech fund focused on the development of food and health solutions that support
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September 03, 2020 - Resources
Recent Changes in Human Capital and D+I for Public Companies
By: Jackie Liu and Alfredo B. D. Silva
On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced, as part of its ongoing initiative to modernize Regulation S-K disclosure, amendments that add human capital resources as a separate disclosure topic, including any human capital measures or objectives that issuers focus on
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September 03, 2020 - Resources
New California Law to Require Representation from “Underrepresented Communities” on Boards of Public Companies Headquartered in California
By: Jackie Liu and Alfredo B. D. Silva
California’s Assembly Bill (“AB”) 979 is set to make waves both within the state and across the country as a groundbreaking new law that would require companies to diversify their boards and reserve seats for directors from “underrepresented communities.” The bill defines a director
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Topic Archives: Resources

ESG: Navigating the Board’s Role Spring 2022 Course

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac

ISS, Glass Lewis, and Now Nasdaq – Board Diversity Is Here

By: Jackie Liu

First Steps toward Recovery: Saving Small Businesses

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac

Climate Links 12/7/2020

Morrison & Foerster Spearheads Launch of California Rebuilding Fund

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac, Linda A. Arnsbarger and Michael P. Santos

Climate Links 11/20/20

Impactful Conversations: Discussing Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)

By: Michael P. Santos

Impactful Conversations: A Conversation with Andrew Macintosh at March Fund

By: Susan H. Mac Cormac

Recent Changes in Human Capital and D+I for Public Companies

By: Jackie Liu and Alfredo B. D. Silva

New California Law to Require Representation from “Underrepresented Communities” on Boards of Public Companies Headquartered in California

By: Jackie Liu and Alfredo B. D. Silva