The New Greenwashing Battlefield: Litigation, Enforcement, and Compliance Risks for Financial Services

Robin Hulshizer | Latham & Watkins LLP

Robin Hulshizer is a trial lawyer with more than 25 years of experience litigating complex commercial and environmental matters. She is a member of Latham’s Complex CommercialLitigation and Environmental, Social & Governance Practices, focusing on all areas of environmental litigation, including contaminated properties, toxic torts, greenwashing claims, and environmental justice-based claims.

Her experience is multi-disciplinary, including toxic torts, product liability, consumer fraud, business contract, insurance coverage, class actions, and securities litigation. She has represented clients across various sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, retail and consumer products, energy, and industrial hygiene.

In the environmental arena, Robin’s experience has spanned every major environmental statute (such as CERCLA, RCRA, CWA) and includes not only litigation but contaminated site remediation, permitting and compliance strategies, regulatory work, investigation, and enforcement actions. She also provides ESG, environmental, and litigation counseling in connection with large-scale mergers, acquisitions, and financing transactions. In addition to her representation of clients in litigation arising out of mobile and stationary emissions, toxic tort, and the Superfund/cost recovery arena, her experience includes explosion cases, citizen suits, private cost recovery actions, and claims brought by or against federal and state governments. Robin has also worked on variances and penalty actions for a variety of clients.

In the business disputes forum, Robin has extensive trial and court experience, representing various companies in high-stakes commercial litigation, as well as before governmental agencies including the SEC, EPA, and state equivalent agencies. She also has served as counsel in numerous complex, multiparty cases as well as class actions and multi-district litigations, in various federal and state courts around the country, and Canada.

She formerly served as Deputy Office Managing Partner of the Chicago office as well as Local Chair of the Environmental, Land & Resources Department, and as a Vice Chair of the firm’s former Diversity Leadership Committee.

Jennifer K. Roy | Latham & Watkins LLP

Jennifer Roy, Deputy Office Managing Partner for the firm’s San Diego office, provides environmental counseling in all areas of environmental law, with a particular focus on energy and major infrastructure projects.

Jennifer assists clients in a wide variety of energy and infrastructure matters related to power generation, renewable and conventional energy resources, land use entitlements, and environmental diligence. Jennifer has experience in administrative proceedings and litigation, including before California and federal agencies.

I. What is greenwashing? | 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

II. Key international, federal, and state regulatory regimes governing greenwashing and ESG in the financial services industry | 2:10pm – 2:40pm

III. Trends in greenwashing enforcement, litigation and legal claims | 2:40pm – 3:10pm