Betty M. Huber

Partner

New York
betty.huber@lw.com
+1.212.906.1222

PRACTICES

  • Capital Markets
  • Corporate Governance
  • Emerging Companies & Growth
  • Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
  • Israel Practice
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Public Company Representation
  • Shareholder Activism & Takeover Defense

INDUSTRIES

  • Aerospace, Defense & Government Services
  • Financial Institutions
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • REITs

BAR QUALIFICATIONS

  • New York

EDUCATION

  • JD, New York University School of Law, 1996
  • BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
    cum laude

PROFILE

Betty Moy Huber advises leading companies, funds, and their boards on advancing corporate strategy through cutting-edge finance products, M&A transactions, and capital markets offerings. She serves as Global Co-Chair of Latham’s Environmental, Social, and Governance practice.

Betty leverages more than 25 years’ experience and trusted C-suite relationships to identify the key business risks that ESG requirements may pose to companies in today’s rapidly evolving regulatory climate.

She delivers pragmatic, commercial guidance across a broad spectrum of industries and market caps on: 

  • ESG policies and disclosure
  • Sustainable finance, impact investing, and “net-zero” and other climate change matters
  • SEC and other mandatory and voluntary reporting and disclosure requirements
  • Board oversight, risk management, composition, and refreshment
  • Fiduciary duties
  • Board assessments
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Shareholder proposals

Betty serves on the Board of Advisors for NYU’s School of Law Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance and as Co-Chair of the Society for Corporate Governance’s Sustainability Practices Committee. She is a former member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Advisory Council. 

A recognized thought leader, Betty has served as a congressional expert on ESG matters. She frequently speaks and writes for leading industry organizations and is quoted by various media outlets, including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and American Banker. She lectures on corporate and ESG matters at law schools, including Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, and Stanford Law School’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

Before joining Latham, Betty was co-head of the ESG Group and Environmental Practice Group at another global law firm.

EXPERIENCE

Betty’s experience includes advising:

M&A, Private Equity, and Private Capital

  • Buyers and sellers and their boards — as ESG, environmental, and toxic tort counsel — on hundreds of stock, asset, merger, spin-off, and joint venture transactions and related insurance coverage, including a US$11 billion deal involving two industrial software companies
  • US private capital sponsors on the impact of global sustainability and due diligence requirements
  • Private capital sponsors on trainings involving human rights and supply chain issues
  • Energy companies on ESG and environmental indemnity disputes
  • Private funds on developing ESG policies and ongoing Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and stakeholder reporting

ESG

  • Large-, mid-, and small-cap companies and their boards, as well as pre-IPO companies, on the full suite of ESG services, including:
    • Near- and long-term planning
    • Proxy and other mandatory and voluntary reporting
    • Human capital and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) matters disclosures
    • ESG human rights and ethics policies
  • Financial institutions and other issuers on board presentations and briefing C-suite members on:
    • ESG matters
    • Regulatory developments
    • Evolving stakeholder demands
  • Energy, infrastructure, and financial service companies on 14a-8 shareholder proposals
  • Public companies on ESG ratings and rankings
  • Issuers and industry groups on matters involving:
    • Federal and state climate change
    • Human capital
    • Board diversity
    • Other ESG-related regulatory rulemaking
  • Borrowers and lenders on ESG-linked loans and other financing instruments

Capital Markets

  • On ESG and environmental aspects in connection with hundreds of IPOs and other securities offerings as well as ongoing periodic reporting