Speaker Biographies
Michael Littenberg
New York | +1 212 596 9160
Michael.Littenberg@ropesgray.com
Michael Littenberg is a senior partner at Ropes & Gray and global head of the firm’s ESG, CSR and business and human rights practice. He has more than 30 years of experience in these areas. Michael advises a significant number of leading companies, asset managers, asset owners and trade associations on ESG, CSR and business and human rights matters. He also publishes and speaks extensively on these topics and is included on numerous top practitioner lists.
Peter Alpert
Boston | +1 617 951 7906
Peter.Alpert@ropesgray.com
Peter Alpert has practiced environmental law for 30 years. Peter’s clients include industrial, corporate, and institutional entities, municipalities, and real estate investors and developers. His primary focus is on the remediation of contaminated land under state and federal superfund programs, the entitlement and permitting of complex development projects, and advising private equity, hedge fund, and strategic clients on the environmental issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions. His permitting experience spans the range of entitlement programs, including zoning, wetlands, water management, environmental impact review and more. His regulatory knowledge spans the full range of federal and state programs. A substantial part of Peter’s practice is devoted to federal and state superfund matters, including the negotiation and administration of CERCLA consent decrees, and the oversight of privatized response under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan. Peter has represented the principal PRPs at two of the largest MCP cleanups ever performed..
Doug Brayley
Boston | +1 617 951 7119
Douglas.Brayley@ropesgray.com
Doug Brayley leads the firm’s employment litigation practice. Doug is a frequent commentator on employment law developments, including on ESG-related topics such as the impact of Supreme Court rulings on DEI programs, and has appeared in publications and media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg Law. Doug represents employers in high-stakes disputes such as sexual harassment and workplace discrimination matters, whistleblower actions, restrictive and trade secret disputes, and arbitrations with highly compensated senior executives. He also counsels clients on the full range of day-to-day issues facing employers and provides advice on labor and employment questions that arise in mergers and acquisitions.
Eva Carman
New York | +1 212 596 9039
Eva.Carman@ropesgray.com
Eva Carman is a head of the Ropes & Gray’s global securities enforcement practice. Her focus is on providing highly practical guidance on how to avoid regulatory challenges on matters associated with the most cutting-edge issues currently facing advisers, including those associated with ESG, cybersecurity, insider trading, and all types of Advisers Act conflicts. Her ESG work includes conducting pre-exam reviews measuring adviser’s ESG practices against the issues the SEC exam and enforcement teams are most focused on.
Josh Lichtenstein
New York | +1 212 841 5788
Joshua.Lichtenstein@ropesgray.com
Josh Lichtenstein is widely viewed as an industry leader helping asset managers and asset owners navigate the increasing volume of conflicting state ESG and anti-ESG legislation and the complex ESG-related investment requirements of the U.S. Department of Labor applicable to U.S. pension funds. He advises clients on the practical impacts of these rules and the ever-evolving landscape related to the investment process, product design and litigation risk. In addition, Josh developed and leads the team that maintains Ropes & Gray’s award-winning, interactive 50-state ESG tracker, a comprehensive and unique resource in the market that is updated regularly.
Chong Park
Washington, D.C. |+1 202 508 4631
San Francisco | +1 415 315 6339
Chong.Park@ropesgray.com
Chong Park has a deep background advising on antitrust and consumer protection claims, both as a senior trial attorney at the Federal Trade Commission and in private practice, and is widely known for advising clients on ESG-related consumer protection claims. He is also a leading practitioner advising clients on U.S. federal and state antitrust implications of their ESG engagements (a new and rapidly developing area), including in connection with several high-profile state enforcement matters.
George Raine
Boston | +1 617 951 7556
George.Raine@ropesgray.com
George is well-versed on the complex regulatory and transactional issues faced by participants in the investment management industry, particularly regarding ESG matters. His practice includes the representation of U.S. and non-U.S. investment advisers; open- and closed-end investment companies and their trustees; hedge funds and other private investment pools, including real estate investment trusts; and broker-dealers.
George serves as independent trustee counsel to the Green Century Funds, a complex of environmentally responsible mutual funds. Recently he advised several U.S., non-U.S. and global asset managers on a wide range of ESG-related matters including disclosures, specifically regarding regulatory oversight related to the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, the U.S. SEC, the U.S DOL and the U.S. states, disclosure implementation related to participation in the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative and responding to civil investigative demands and other inquiries from U.S. states related to ESG practices.
Rob Skinner
New York | +1 212 596 9927
Boston | +1 617 951 7560
Robert.Skinner@ropesgray.com
Rob Skinner leads a team of securities litigators that makes Ropes & Gray the industry leader in defending and advising investment management clients. Especially in the mutual fund and ETF space, this team has been at the forefront of every major court and regulatory challenge facing the industry, including the anti-ESG crusade, prospectus liability, excessive fees, and activist challenges. Effectively embedded in the investment management sector, Rob and his fellow litigators bring a deep knowledge of how the industry works, as well as how the plaintiffs’ bar, regulators and elected officials look to attack it.
Amy Roy
Boston | +1 617 951 7445
Amy.Roy@ropesgray.com
Amy Roy is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s securities litigation group representing financial services firms, including investment advisers and mutual funds, and other clients in securities litigation and other complex business disputes. Amy focuses her practice on the investment management industry and has experience in litigating many of the leading issues facing the mutual fund industry, including excessive fee claims, prospectus liability and closed-end fund activism. Amy is an industry thought leader on issues surrounding ESG investing practices, advising multiple clients on regulatory investigations and disclosure matters, and is also a regular speaker and commentator on ESG investing issues.
