Advanced Corporate Legal Advisers and Chartered Company Secretaries
Course Information:
Venue: | Duration: | Date: | Price: |
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Online | 30 hours | Flexi-date | £3,750.00 |
In-House | Agreed with client | Flexible | POA |
London | 10 days | 22 January 2024 | £7,250 |
London | 10 days | 8 April 2024 | £7,250 |
London | 10 days | 7 October 2024 | £7,250 |
Dubai | 10 days |
If you are unable to attend this course on the dates above, please contact us to discuss alternative options.
Please note that prices shown above are exclusive of VAT (20%).
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Who should attend?
- Company Executive and Non- Executive Directors
- Shareholder representatives
- Pension and Investment Fund Managers
- Public officials in a regulatory, supervisory or compliance functions
- Company Secretaries of public companies
- Executives involved in strategic and operational functions, including finance, corporate strategy, human resources, and government affairs
- Senior managers involved in setting up corporate governance initiatives
- Corporate lawyers who wish to improve their understanding of new company law developments concerning corporate responsibility
Outcomes
- Review and clarify the duties of company directors
- Compare best practice of how company boards are organised
- Describe the benefits to stakeholders of applying corporate governance principles
- Develop checks and balance that apply to the boards of listed companies
- Relate the UK Corporate Governance Code to their own environment
- Refresh the commercial skills needed by legal and regulatory executives
- Explore the importance of the Company Secretary’s role
- Negotiate more effectively
COURSE TOPICS:
What is Corporate Governance?
- Essential structures of corporate governance
- Principle functions and responsibilities of the Board
- Setting the company strategic direction
- Establishing corporate values
- Holding the executives to account
- Maintaining the corporate reputation
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
- The pressure for corporate behaviour change
- The Legal Background of ESG
- Company directors’ obligations and ESG
- Voluntary measures
Company Directors and Company Boards
- Duties of a Director
- Promoting the success of the company
- Role of the chairman
- Executive and Non-executive directors
- Making a difference using
- non-executive directors
Roles and Responsibilities of Company Secretary
- Assisting the Board
- Record keeping
- Managing the registered office
- Supporting and managing board and company meetings
Corporate Failure Resulting from Poor Governance
- The ineffective board
- Examples of corporate failure: Maxwell, Polly Peck, Enron
- Analysis of the banking crisis as a failure of governance
- Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory responses to corporate governance failure
- Lessons learned from corporate failures
Resolving Legal Disputes
- Where do the problems occur?
- Resolving disputes without
- recourse to the courts
- Alternative dispute resolution techniques – arbitration, mediation, conciliation
- Other dispute procedures
Protecting Shareholders and Other Stakeholders
- The UK Corporate Governance Code
- The Comply or Explain rule
- How to protect the shareholder?
- Communicating with the shareholder
- Legal framework for corporate governance
Negotiating, Drafting and Structuring Legal Agreements
- Contract law refresher
- Drafting legal agreements
- Negotiation principles
- Tools and techniques for negotiation
- What are our negotiables?