Dates for this course

02/08/10 - 13/08/10

22/11/10 - 03/12/10

Who should attend:
• Corporate lawyers
• Company Secretaries
• Legal Executives
• Company Directors
• Shareholders in Public Companies
• Pension Fund Managers
• Investment Fund Managers

Course objectives:
• To examine the work done by the Company Secretary and the Corporate Legal Department.
• To familiarise participants with the global systems of Company Directors responsibility to their shareholders and employees.
• To study the UK Higgs rules and the implementation of the combined code.
• To define the structure of a Board, the Nomination, Remuneration and Audit Committees.

Course content:
• The role and responsibilities of the Company Secretary and the Directors
• The role and responsibilities of the corporate legal department
• Company meetings
• Litigation & Arbitration
• Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Intellectual property
• Impact of Cyber Law 

Corporate Governance
• Examples of Company failures based on the traditional Company Board
• The UK Higgs Report and its recommendations
• The Combined Code
• Why non-Executive Directors should be in a majority on the Company Board – their recruitment
• A detailed study of the Board Structure of British Petroleum and the Directors’ details reporting systems
• A comparison of the US and European Board systems
• Recent changes in the methods of Corporate Governance