In-house Counsel’s Compliance Guide to Harmonizing Global Sustainability Disclosure Laws
Recorded On: 10/08/2024
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In 2024, sustainability shifts from voluntary to legal compliance, expanding in-house counsel's role in ESG risk management. Global sustainability laws establish a complex legal framework for corporate disclosure that includes clear reporting standards for some jurisdictions and conflicting standards in others. In-house counsel will be critical in guiding organizations towards compliance. This session will explore the existing and proposed disclosure laws, including the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the California Climate Disclosure Laws, the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Regulation, and the Australian Climate Disclosure Legislation. Learn how these laws affect global companies and strategies for maintaining compliance.
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LockedHih Song Kim
xecutive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
BlueTriton Brands, Inc.
Executive leader and trusted advisor to the CEO and Board of Directors with extensive and broad experience at publicly traded, privately held, and private equity portfolio companies across diverse sectors including technology, consumer products, manufacturing (ed tech, food and beverage, health, home and personal care, cosmetics, devices, wines, distilled spirits) with B2B, B2C channel activity. Corporate generalist with expertise in litigation, advertising law, product innovation, contracts, commercial transactions (acquisitions, strategic alliances, JVs, licensing, distribution, technology, SaaS, managed service agreements), employment law, competition law, sustainability/ESG. Proven ability to solve problems in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while optimizing value, risk and opportunity, and protecting overall corporate equity. Able to translate complex legal issues and provide clear practical and tactical advice to achieve successful outcomes. Skilled in building consensus and working collaboratively and effectively across cultures in matrixed organizations. Honed understanding of the needs of varied stakeholders and developer of diverse talent.
Joseph Dawley
Legal Executive, HSE and Regulatory
Baker Hughes
Accomplished corporate lawyer with a multi-disciplinary background who draws from legal, engineering and business background to develop business centric solutions for regulatory strategies and risk management. Effective manager, cross-functional leader, and trusted advisor.
Successful record navigating through complex permitting, compliance, and policy challenges. Long history of developing ESG and sustainability strategies to maximize opportunities and minimize risks associated with environmental performance, sustainability, and climate change.
Specific Strengths include: leading corporate functions, effective communications, ESG risk management, strategic regulatory and permitting counsel, environmental and safety compliance, product regulatory compliance, crisis management, legislative analysis and advocacy, drafting, analyzing, and negotiating commercial agreements and consent orders, deep understanding of upstream and midstream gas industry, relationship management
Yves Heijmans
EA General Counsel
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
Legal Counsel with an accomplished international business expertise of more than 15 years with top-ranked in-house and law firm experience. Pragmatic, goal- and people-focused professional with a proven track record of leading international and multi-disciplinary projects in industrial and highly-regulated business environments (incl. telecommunications and petrochemicals).
Member of the Executive Committee and recognized by internal clients as providing creative and solution oriented legal assistance in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
Specialties:
- Risk Management and dispute resolution;
- Negotiating complex international commercial contracts;
- Ethics & Compliance;
- Regulatory affairs (competition, privacy and employment);
- Mergers & acquisitions.
Multilingual: French, Dutch, English, and Spanish.
Leah Dundon
Of Counsel
Beveridge & Diamond
Leah’s practice focuses on civil litigation in both state and federal courts and advising clients on regulatory matters arising under environmental laws.
Leah has handled litigation and regulatory matters arising under the Clean Water Act; the Clean Air Act; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; and state counterparts, and represented clients before state and federal regulatory agencies in environmental matters. Leah also counsels clients regarding emerging standards around analysis, disclosure, and reporting of climate-related risks. She regularly speaks and publishes on climate risk disclosure and other topics of concern to the regulated community. In 2020, Leah was admitted as a member to the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC), an invitation only, peer-reviewed admission process.
Leah lives in and works from Nashville, Tennessee, and also represents clients before the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. She received her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2016. Her engineering background provides her a unique vantage point from which to craft creative legal approaches to support her clients and understand their businesses.
Leah holds an appointment at Vanderbilt University where she teaches a climate change course that prepares students to engage in the annual United Nations international climate negotiations (known as COPs). In 2024, Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell appointed Leah to the city’s Metro Planning Commission, which manages and supervises the urban development of Metro Nashville and Davidson County.
Education
- American University (B.A., cum laude, 1993)
- Political Science
- Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1997)
- Vanderbilt University (Ph.D., 2016)
- Environmental Engineering
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals – Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals - Ninth Circuit
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association; Section of the Environment, Energy and Resources; Committee on Innovations, Management Systems and Trading; past Chair and Vice Chair
- District of Columbia Bar Association
- Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC), Member
- Nashville Bar Association
This on-demand program offers CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below!
CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:
*Alaska, *Arizona, California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.
*Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction.
CLE/CPD CREDIT IS PENDING IN:
South Carolina, and Virginia
ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS):
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:
District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota
