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Ben Maiden
KEPRO hires first general counsel and CCO
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based KEPRO has hired Melissa Leigh as general counsel and chief compliance officer. In this newly created role, Leigh leads the firm’s in-house legal, compliance and risk management functions. Before joining KEPRO,...Read more
Ben Maiden
Aramark general counsel passes baton
Lauren Harrington has been elected senior vice president and general counsel with Aramark, effective March 4. Her promotion follows Steve Reynolds, executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, informing the company on...Read more
Ben Maiden
Outside counsel moves in-house at PDC
PDC Brands has brought its chief outside legal adviser in-house as general counsel. Matthew Wagner has spent several years as outside general counsel and non-executive secretary to PDC’s board of directors. He was...Read more

ESG

Ben Maiden
Survey highlights growing investor pressure on governance teams
New research underlines the increasing pressure on companies – and in turn their governance teams – to respond to demands from investors with effective engagement, disclosure and policies on an ever-broader array of...Read more
Judith Ugwumadu
Earnings calls increasingly mention plastic waste
MSCI suggests that firms’ use of plastic is coming under greater scrutiny, amid broader and growing investor scrutiny of companies’ ESG performance . The mention of plastic waste in earnings calls increased by...Read more
Sally Curley and Carol Nolan Drake
How to respond to the ESG spotlight
Evidence of the link between investment returns and companies’ ESG commitments is mounting exponentially, showing that ESG should no longer be viewed as a fad and fueling scrutiny from asset managers. With this...Read more
Ben Maiden
How Microsoft communicates about its take on ESG
This article originally appeared in the latest Corporate Secretary special report. Click here to view the full publication . As has been well documented, companies today face growing pressure to let shareholders know...Read more

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