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Europe Insights and Events
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Joint public statement on EFRAG’s Exposure Draft for a Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for non-listed SMEs (VSME ED)
Impact Europe, the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers, and Euclid Network – the European Social Enterprise Network, endorsed by the signatory organisations, jointly issue this statement to welcome the EFRAG’s Exposure Draft for a Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard (VSME ED) and share our key recommendations to further align it with the needs of the impact…
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International Perspectives on True & Fair Accounting: Legal Insights from SVI’s Campaign Across Europe
This virtual roundtable will present the English law legal opinion commissioned by Social Value International, and explore how this maps across into other key European jurisdictions, based on legal analyses undertaken in partnership with GAIL in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Spain.
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Implementing CSDDD: Legal Tools for Sustainable Supply Chains
As part of London Climate Action Week, this webinar was for legal professionals dedicated to advancing supply chain and procurement sustainability. The GAIL Europe Board explored the latest tools and strategies for enhancing sustainability with a focus on implementing the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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Building an Impact Law Practice
A plenary session featuring managing partners and senior lawyers from five diverse law firms across France, Argentina, the UK, Ghana, and the USA discuss the essence and practicalities of what it means to be an impact law practice, how impact approaches are integrated across firm culture & structures and their practical implications for client advisory…
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Implementing CSDDD: Legal Tools for Sustainable Supply Chains
As part of London Climate Action Week, this webinar was for legal professionals dedicated to advancing supply chain and procurement sustainability. The GAIL Europe Board explored the latest tools and strategies for enhancing sustainability with a focus on implementing the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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GAIL Europe & GAIL North America Present: Partnerships for Impact – Opportunities & Challenges
This session delves into the evolving landscape of impact investing and sustainable finance, particularly focusing on the collaboration between European and U.S. organisations.
Emiliano Giovine
Chair, GAIL Europe
Partner, RP Legal & Tax
Italy
Emiliano is the head of the Impact & Sustainability team at RP Legal & Tax.
He mainly deals with nonprofit entities, social enterprises, socially oriented corporate vehicles, NGOs and international organizations. He advises these entities in the phases of incorporation, reorganizations, extraordinary transactions and adjustments required by the Third Sector Code.
He also provides support on ESG matters to leading national and international companies. More specifically, he deals with the adoption and implementation of sustainability models, corporate policies and ethical codes, the acquisition of the Benefit Corporation status and the B Corp certification, as well as ESG/human rights due diligence, non-financial reporting and impact measurement.
Emiliano has ten years of experience in the impact economy sector. In particular, he has been involved for years in several international cooperation projects and policy-making activities, led by NGOs and by the United Nations, focused on the integration of migrants and refugees through entrepreneurial initiatives. He is also tutor of the “Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic” legal training program at the Faculty of Law of the University of Turin. He cooperates with Tiresia – Politecnico di Milano on legal issues related to social business and social innovation.
In the past years, Emiliano was a consultant of the United Nations at UNEP and a Legal Officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He holds a master’s degree in Environmental Law and management from Cà Foscari University of Venice and is currently a PhD candidate in Public International law at Utrecht University.
Since 2019 he has been board member and legal coordinator of the NGO “ResQ Onlus – People Saving People”.
Alberta Longanesi Cattani
Senior Associate, Ince
Alissa Pelatan
Founder & Partner, AMP Avocats
France
Anh-Thu Thai
Counsel, id est avocats Sàrl
Switzerland
Benoit Spitaels
Founding Partner, Impact Advocaten
Belgium
Dan Fuochi
Partner, Impulsius
Switzerland
Dr. Alexandra von Westernhagen
Partner, EU Sustainability at LiberiusLegal
Belgium
María Peña
Head of Legal, Risk & Compliance, Symbiotics SA
Switzerland
Raluca Radu
General Counsel, The Impact Facility and Co-founder and Board Member at The LISI Foundation
Netherlands
Roberto Randazzo
Head of ESG and Impact, Legance
Italy
Rutherford Hubbard
Manager Legal (Private Equity and Structured Finance) at FMO , The Dutch Development Bank
The Netherlands