Recent Developments in Corporate Sustainability and ESG: Where are we now?

Date: 21 May 2025

Time: 11.00AM to 01.00PM

Venue: Zoom Webinar

Event Type: Seminars

School/Department: School of Law

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Synopsis

This webinar provides an update and review of the recent developments in corporate sustainability, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) in the legal landscape. It involves panel discussions of the new sustainability reporting requirements based on the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards from 2025 in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and the changing corporate governance norms with respect to sustainability issues. It aims to draw relevant comparisons with developments in other jurisdictions as appropriate, and provide insights on the implications of these developments on companies.

 

Webinar Information

2 Public CPD Points

Practice Area: Corporate/Commercial

Training Level: General

Course Fee: $54.50

Registration Deadline: 16 May 2025

 

Programme

 

Speakers

Mr Lance Ang
Lance Ang is a Lecturer at the School of Law, Singapore University of Social Sciences, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. As the recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Fitzwilliam Scholarship, Lance graduated in 2022 with the Master of Law (First Class Honours) from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded the 1912 Senior Scholarship, David Pearl Prize and Fitzwilliam Society JRW Alexander Law Book Grant. 

Lance has published his work in several international journals, including the Law Quarterly Review, Capital Markets Law Journal, Journal of Private International Law, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, and the Asian Journal of Comparative Law. He has been invited to present his scholarship at the Stanford Law School, University of Oxford, UNSW Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Monash University, National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University and University of Auckland.

He has been awarded the CIBEL Global Network Young Scholar Prize from the Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre, UNSW Law & Justice, the High Commendation Prize from the Corporate Law Teachers Association at Monash University, and the ICGRG Routledge Prize at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

 

Professor Virginia Harper Ho

Professor Harper Ho is an expert on comparative corporate governance and securities regulation and their intersections with sustainable finance. She is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law, and a former Research Fellow of the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing. She is a Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals’ Program and has studied Chinese legal reform for several decades. Prior to joining the faculty of City University of Hong Kong in 2021, where she teaches mergers & acquisitions and Hong Kong company law, she was an Earl B. Shurtz Research Professor and the Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs at the University of Kansas School of Law (USA). She holds a JD from Harvard Law School (with honors) and a B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University (Bloomington) (USA).

 

Professor Dan W. Puchniak

Dan W. Puchniak is a Professor in the Yong Pung How School of Law (YPHSL) at Singapore Management University, the Director of the YPHSL Centre for Commercial Law in Asia, a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance. Dan is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of comparative corporate law and governance, with a focus on Asia. He has received numerous domestic and international awards for his academic research and teaching – most recently, the 2023 Cleary Gottlieb Law Prize. Dan’s research has been profiled in The Economist, The Japan Times, and The Business Times. His research has pioneered the emerging field of intra-Asian comparative corporate law and governance.

 

Dr Petrina Tan

Dr Petrina Tan is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya (UM). She holds a PhD and an LL.M (Corporate & Financial Services Law) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) as well as an LL.B (Hons)(Distinction), equivalent to a First Class Honours degree, from UM. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a PhD at NUS and was conferred the PhD in July 2023. Her doctoral thesis examined the regulation of the alternative market listing regime by selected stock exchanges in Asia. Her prior research has been published as journal articles in the Erasmus Law Review, Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law as well as a book chapter in the edited volume ‘Global Shareholder Stewardship’ published by Cambridge University Press. She has presented at various international and regional conferences. Her research interests include capital market law and policy, company law and corporate governance and regulatory theory more generally. She was previously a corporate lawyer, federal counsel at the Malaysian Attorney General’s Chambers, senior manager at Bursa Malaysia, Adjunct Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore Centre for Banking & Finance Law and Postdoctoral Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, NUS. She was also a sessional tutor at the School of Business, Monash University Malaysia, where she taught Malaysian company law.

 

Ms Samantha Tang
Samantha is Lecturer at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (NUS Law). Prior to her current appointment, she was Sheridan Fellow at NUS Law, researcher at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at NUS Law, and an Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law. She is also an Advocate & Solicitor of Singapore. She has taught at the University of Tokyo, Thammasat University, and the University of Melbourne.

Samantha’s research interests are the corporate law of Commonwealth jurisdictions, with a special focus on shareholder stewardship, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. Her work has been published in the Law Quarterly Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Junkan Shōji Hōmu [旬刊商事法務], and edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press, Intersentia, and Edward Elgar. Samantha’s article, “Rethinking the Theory in Books: Derivative Actions in Singapore and Hong Kong”, won the Best Paper Prize at the 2017 Corporate Law Teachers Association (now the Society of Corporate Law Academics) Conference, the flagship corporate law conference in the Anglo-Commonwealth. She has served or will be serving as a National Reporter for Singapore for the General Congresses of the International Academy of Comparative Law (2018, 2022) and the Thematic Congress of 2024.

 

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