This session will create structured meeting spaces for delegates based in Europe (including the UK).
You will have the opportunity to join two of three breakout room discussions, and to share experience and strategies for taking an impact focused approach to legal practice.
BREAKOUT ROOM TOPICS
- Impact Economy Policy Mapping
- This discussion will present an new interactive map of policies and initiatives in the impact economy space and invite your views on how this space can be further developed.
- Cross-Border Donations
- This discussion will look at the conditions for donations to foreign organisations in Europe and propose a path to developing a collaborative ongoing approach to the subject within the esela network.
- Sustainable Corporate Governance and the B Corp Movement
- This discussion will explore how impact lawyers can support EU corporate governance reform, which is people, planet and profit oriented.
This session is presented by esela members based in Germany, France, Poland and the UK.
Session chair: Alissa Pelatan, Founder and Partner of AMP Avocat.
Further details:
IMPACT ECONOMY POLICY MAPPING
Discussion leaders: Shirah Mansaray, PhD Scholar and Phillippa Holland, Impact Economy Knowledge Lawyer at Bates Wells, UK
What do we mean by ‘impact economy’? This breakout room will present The Impact Economy Policy Mapping Initiative, a visual tool of policies advancing purpose driven business, stakeholder capitalism, fiduciary duty and reporting, and responsible investment in the UK, and including EU policies.
There is an ongoing need among lawyers to identify scope for collaboration to support domestic or international policy initiatives.
Join this conversation to find out how you would use the newly created tool, which aims to give lawyers, businesses, and policy makers a greater understanding of the fragmented policy agenda and initiatives in the impact economy space.
In sharing the tool with you, we invite your views on the potential applications of the map as an international or global tool for policy change through your work.
CROSS-BORDER DONATIONS
Discussion leader: Alexander Vielwerth, Attorney for Tax Law at Winheller, Germany
Starting from the legal situation in Germany, we will discuss the conditions prevailing in European countries for the tax deductibility of donations to foreign organisations.
The aim of this breakout room will not be the mere transfer of knowledge about the legal situation abroad, but ideally the starting point of a common approach to an international overview of different jurisdictions which could be either published or used in one's own legal work.
SUSTAINABLE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE B CORP MOVEMENT
Discussion leader: Wojciech Baginski, Attorney, Baginski.Pro, Poland / B Lab Public Policy Group
The EU Commission has finalised the Consultation on Sustainable Corporate Governance.
One of the core elements of the consultation relates to the revision of the duty of care of management board members in companies.
Introduction - on a pan-European level - of a mandatory obligation on management boards of companies to explicitly include and balance all stakeholder and not predominantly shareholder interests in their decision-making processes is a development in European corporate law, the significance of which cannot be overstated.
The EU now has a chance to lead the way in governance, which is people, planet and profit oriented. B Corps who voluntarily live by these ideas show that it is in the best interest of the company to include and balance the interests of all stakeholders - including shareholders - in their processes.
B Lab is looking to engage esela members and delegates in mapping the law regarding this revised duty of care.
During this session, we will review the questions raised and proposals made in the EU consultation, seek input from attendees on this subject, and discuss the extent of the potential study