LCT International Advanced Corporate Legal Advisers and Chartered Company Secretaries LCT International
Price: AED 35,441

    Course details

    Course Introduction:
    This advanced course offers depth on complex legal and corporate governance issues, strategic compliance management, and the evolving role of legal advisers and company secretaries in corporate leadership.

    Course 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 Secretarys role
    Negotiate more effectively

    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

    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?


    Corporate Behaviours Best Practices

    Company director duties
    The role of the NED
    Creating an effective board
    Corporate conduct the social responsibilities of the company
    Consequences of failure in corporate behaviour


    Roles and responsibilities of corporate legal department

    Whats in the job of the in-house lawyer?
    Adding value to company performance
    Identifying and reducing corporate risks
    Measuring the effectiveness of the corporate legal department

    Updated on 14 May, 2025

    Eligibility / Requirements

    N/A

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