Please find below a list of the clients notes that we have produced highlighting key aspects from each of the legislative changes introduced as part of the EU’s ESG initiative from the perspective of asset managers
General
- ESG: Client note on the ESG Ratings Regulation (17 December 2024)
- Top ten things asset managers need to know about the EU’s ESG initiative (October 2020)
The Taxonomy Regulation
- ESG – client note on new Commission Taxonomy FAQs (January 2023)
- ESG Client note: Commission FAQs on Art 8 of the Taxonomy Regulation (October 2022)
- Overview of EU Taxonomy Regulation (last updated June 2020)
The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
- ESG: changes to SFDR - a Simmons client briefing note (21 November 2025)
- ESG: Simmons client note on updated Consolidated Q&As on the SFDR (08 August 2024)
- ESG: client note ‘Top 10 talking points from the ESAs’ SFDR proposals’ (12 December 2023)
- ESG – Simmons client note on the Commission’s SFDR consultation paper (September 2023)
- ESG: The ESAs’ amendments to the SFDR RTS – a client note (April 2023)
- ESG: Commission’s new Q&As on interpreting the SFDR – a client note (April 2023)
- ESG – client note on important SFDR Q&As published by ESMA (November 2022)
- Interpreting the SFDR - more questions for the Commission (September 2022)
- ESG: Commission Q&A on SFDR published (May 2022)
- ESG – new Simmons client note on the SFDR RTS (April 2022)
- ESG – ESAs publish their Final Report with draft RTS under SFDR (October 2021)
- SFDR – Key points and implications of the Commission's Q&A's (26 July 2021)
- SFDR – February 2021: Regulatory Technical Standards published (February 2021)
- What’s the impact if the UK does not implement SFDR? ESG client briefing paper (October 2020)
- The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation Key Requirements (last updated 24 June 2020)
- Top ten things asset managers need to know about the Level 2 proposals under the SFDR (June 2020)
EU Omnibus simplification package
- The EU Omnibus I and II packages (03 March 2025)
Fund names Guidelines
Level 2 changes under AIFMD, the UCITS Directive and MiFID
- Summary of proposed ESG-related changes to AIFMD, UCITS and MiFID (last updated 8 June 2020)
- Amendments made to delegated acts under AIFMD, the UCITS Directive and MiFID (red line) (2 August 2021)
ESG in the UK
- ESG: UK regulation on ESG ratings providers - a client note (28 November 2024)
- UK ESG - Simmons menu of templates for firms subject to FCA TCFD rules (12 December 2023)
- ESG - FCA publishes final SDR rules (November 2023)
- UK sustainability disclosure and investment labelling – a client note (October 2022)
- ESG: UK sets out its roadmap on sustainable finance (November 2021)
- Top ten things asset managers need to know about the FCA’s TCFD disclosure proposals (December 2021)
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