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Jessamy Gallagher is the Global Co-Chair of the Paul Hastings Corporate Department and is a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure practice, based in the London office.

Ms. Gallagher focuses her practice on international public and private M&A in the infrastructure, energy, and real assets markets. She also has extensive experience counseling on business-critical corporate governance matters.

Ms. Gallagher regularly advises a wide range of global pension, infrastructure, and fund manager clients, as well as a number of FTSE listed clients.

Ms. Gallagher is a member of the Australian-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce.

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In the past year, there has been a concerted effort by certain plaintiff firms to weaponize environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) principles to attack corporate boards. On March 19, 2021, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in Ocegueda v. Zuckerberg, Ca. No. 3:20-cv-04444-LB (N.D. Cal. Mar. 19, 2021), struck a blow against these…

On December 2, 2020, with a bipartisan voice vote, the House approved Senate Bill S. 945 to enact the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the “Act”).

[1] The Senate previously approved the bill by unanimous vote and both the Senate and House expect it to be signed into law by the President. Once implemented by…