Lisa Cawley

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Kirkland partner Lisa Cawley has extensive experience in financial services regulation, gained over more than 20 years. Lisa regularly advises on: governance and other compliance arrangements to comply with changes in EU / UK financial services regulation, including MiFID II and PRIIPS; the establishment of new investment, banking and insurance businesses in the UK, and applications for FCA authorisation; and the establishment of compliance processes for investment businesses, and ongoing regulatory advice.

Practice Area

Financial Services

Panel

Contributing Author

Experience

Slaughter and May (1991 - 2008)

Membership

Financial Conduct Authority’s AIFMD Group of Legal Experts
EVCA Public Affairs Executive Technical Group on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
Transatlantic Regulatory Lawyers Group

Education

The College of Law, London (1991)
Magdalene College, Cambridge (1990)
Trinity College, Dublin (1989)

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PRACTICE NOTES

EU SFDR 2022 Regulatory Technical Standards: FAQs on Article 8/9 classification, PAI/PASI data and templates, periodic disclosures, Taxonomy alignment, exclusions, and non-EU AIFM entity-level obligations [Archived]

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. These Q&As respond to the most common queries on the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU SFDR) (Regulation (EU) 2019/2088, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/852) regulatory technical standards (RTS). They address, among other areas, product categorisation; Article 8 features; principal adverse impact (PAI) data gathering; reliance on third-party information; human rights due diligence, and the effect on non-EU managers. On 6 April 2022, the Commission approved the final Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that supplement the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU SFDR) (Regulation (EU) 2019/2088, as amended by the EU Taxonomy Regulation (EU) 2020/852) together with the Annexes. EU SFDR imposes substantial environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure duties on asset managers promoting funds within the EU. The RTS set out compulsory website, pre-contractual and periodic reporting templates for financial market participants and relevant financial products. For further detail, see Commission publishes adopted RTS containing disclosure rules on sustainable investments under EU SFDR, LNB News 06/04/2022 92. Below we respond to several of the most frequently raised questions regarding EU SFDR, reflecting the final RTS adopted in 2022. Implementation of the EU SFDR has been carried out by...

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