Corporate Legal Officers Course

Corporate Legal Officers Course

*What is corporate Governance?

· Essential structures of corporate governance

· Principle functions and responsibilities of the Board

· Maintaining the corporate reputation

*What is corporate Governance?

· Essential structures of corporate governance

· Principle functions and responsibilities of the Board

· Maintaining the corporate reputation

*Company Directors and Company Boards

· Duties of a Director

· Promoting the success of the company

· Executive and Non-executive directors

*Corporate Failure Resulting from Poor Governance

· Examples of corporate failure: Maxwell, Polly Peck, Enron, Worldcom

· Analysis of the banking crisis as a failure of governance

· Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory responses to corporate governance failure

*Roles and responsibilities of company secretary

· Assisting the Board

· Record keeping

· Managing the registered office

*Roles and responsibilities of corporate legal department

· Typical functions

· Reducing corporate risk

· Measuring corporate legal performance

*Resolving legal disputes

· Litigation and Principles of Arbitration

· Non-binding dispute resolution methods

· Mediation and Conciliation

*Negotiating, drafting and structuring legal agreements

· Contract law refresher

· Drafting legal agreements and Negotiation principles

· Tools and techniques for negotiation

· How to protect the shareholder?

· Communicating with the shareholder

· A Legal framework for corporate governance

*Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

· The pressure for corporate behaviour change

· The Legal Background of CSR

· Company directors’ obligations and CSR