Andreas Wildner
Andreas Wildner’s practice encompasses a wide range of regulatory matters, with a specialization on the financial services sector as well as financial sanctions and sustainability regulation across various sectors.
Since joining Cleary Gottlieb in 2021, Andreas has been leading the firm’s thought leadership in several areas of law and regulation, including ESG regulation in the UK and the EU, ESG litigation, and legal and regulatory developments in connection with emerging technologies such as digital assets, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
Andreas also has experience working on competition law/antitrust issues in the financial services sector, as well as in sanctions advice.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2023
Education
- University College London LL.M. With Distinction (2022)
- University of Law LPC With Distinction (2020)
- University of Cambridge B.A. Double First Class (2018)
- University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna M.A. With Distinction (2015)
- Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava B.A. With Distinction (2014)
1 Contributions by Andreas Wildner
PRACTICE NOTES
UK ESG ratings and data products: IOSCO recommendations, FCA expectations, voluntary Code of Conduct, and HM Treasury’s proposals to regulate ratings providers within the FSMA perimeter
Introduction
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are becoming ever more influential across capital markets. As a result, appetite for ESG ratings and datasets has surged, with investors increasingly weaving rating thresholds or targets into their investment frameworks and firms more often embedding references to ESG ratings within the structure and rollout of their sustainable investment offerings. Interest covers ratings as well as data products across markets. Investors and firms are responding by building them into investment processes and product design and delivery. Expansion of the ESG ratings and data markets has, in turn, prompted heightened attention from policymakers and supervisors in the UK and beyond. This piece outlines the UK’s regulatory moves concerning oversight of ESG ratings and data services. For context, it first reviews earlier materials issued by IOSCO, which effectively underpin the UK’s evolving regulatory framework. Within the EU, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament have concluded a deal on the regulation of ESG ratings. For further details, see News: Council of the EU and European Parliament reach agreement on ESG ratings, LNB News 06/02/2024 40. For a comparison of the EU and UK ESG ratings regulation proposals, see News Analysis: Comparing EU and...
Financial Services
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