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Provided by Mary Beth Houlihan
Mary Beth Houlihan is a sustainability partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises public and private companies, financial institutions and private equity clients on a wide range of complex and evolving sustainability matters. Her practice includes legal and regulatory compliance, responding to investor demands, developing sustainability strategies, enhancing governance and policies, and navigating sustainability disclosures and voluntary reporting frameworks.
Mary Beth is the go-to sustainability counsel for numerous asset managers, providing them with advice on their firm-wide ESG policies and programs, commitments and disclosures, fund-level strategies and communications, investor negotiations, and regulatory compliance and enforcement. This includes both public and private asset managers, with a particular focus on energy, infrastructure and real-estate strategies. Her practice builds upon almost two decades of experience providing counseling to financial institutions, investment funds, and private and public company clients in hundreds of complex corporate, real estate and financial transactions, including helping clients to evaluate and address physical and transition risks from climate change, product and supply chain risks, legacy environmental issues, and the potential business implications of pending and proposed changes to sustainability regulations.
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Mary Beth Houlihan is a partner on the Sustainability team, based in the New York office. Her work includes advising public and private companies across a range of investment platforms and sustainability strategy, as well as advising asset managers on firm-wide ESG policies and investments.
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Mary Beth Houlihan has excellent commercial awareness and understands how regulatory, investor and reputational considerations affect global private market managers.
Mary Beth has a strong command of evolving regulatory frameworks and market practice, and is particularly effective at advising on complex, high-stakes issues where there is limited precedent.
Mary Beth Houlihan has excellent commercial awareness and understands how regulatory, investor and reputational considerations affect global private market managers.
Mary Beth has a strong command of evolving regulatory frameworks and market practice, and is particularly effective at advising on complex, high-stakes issues where there is limited precedent.