Asian private equity firms grapple with tougher ESG demands

Private equity firms and portfolio companies should prepare for an “onslaught” of regulation associated with the overseas customers of portfolio companies in the coming years, according to Marcia Ellis, a Hong Kong-based partner and global chair of the private equity practice at US-headquartered law firm Morrison Foerster. “As more European Union and United States companies are subject to regulations that require them to report on – for example, the carbon emissions of each of the…