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A Complete Guide to: Corporate Governance and Compliance

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A Complete Guide to: Corporate Governance and Compliance

£165.00

A Complete Guide to: Corporate Governance and Compliance

Over 150 pages of articles written by leading in-house counsel about
Corporate Governance issues affecting in-house counsel today.

A unique one stop source of information on how leading in-house counsel are dealing with Corporate Governance issues facing the global counsel community

By reading this authoritative guide you will:

Find out about:

  • How leading companies manage corporate governance

  • Corporate Governance liabilities and obligations of

    directors of commercial companies

  • The role of internal audit in corporate governance 

  • Corporate Governance structures and implementation

  • The issues of compliance for International Groups

  • Regulatory compliance programmes recently introduced by leading companies

  • Binding Corporate Rules (BCR)

  • Function, Models and Instruments of Listed Companies

  • The role off shareholders and management

  • Corporate Governance Ratings

  • Challenges of Antitrust Compliance

  • How directors or shareholders in a corporation can be held accountable for the liabilities and debts of the corporation

Learn how to:  

  • To create your own compliance programme

  • How to keep your company "clean"

  • Be compliant, locally and internationally

  • Use technology in corporate governance programmes

  • Implement a SOX Compliant Whistle-blower Policy in Europe  

  • Effectively manage corporate governance

  • Apply the knowledge of experienced in-house counsel

  • Understand methods used to ensure your company is compliant

  • Identify weaknesses in your company corporate governance structure

  • Mitigate the risk of not being compliant

  • Educate senior management

  • Develop systems to monitor activity throughout the company to ensure that it is compliant across the world

CONTENTS
Corporations and Their Governance Between History and Practice
Stefano Paolo Catelani , Corporate Counsel, Du Pont , Switzerland
 
Shark-Infested Waters: The New (And Much More Aggressive)
Role of Regulatory Oversight and What You Can Do to Keep Your Company Clean
James M. René, Deputy General Counsel, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
 
When Good Faith is Not Good Enough
Andrew M. Kanter, Vice President, International Operations and Legal Affairs and
Deborah Baron, Vice President of Legal and Compliance, Autonomy, Inc , UK
 
Binding Corporate Rules, the Accenture Experience
Anne Wilkes, Data Privacy Compliance Senior Legal Counsel, EMEA, Accenture, UK
 
The Role of Internal Audit in Corporate Governance. Case: Fiat Group
Mauro Di Gennaro , Chief Audit Executive & Compliance Officer, FIAT Group , Italy
 
Entity Management, Technology and Corporate Governance
Brian J. Chartier , Director Consultancy Services, Datacare Software Group , Canada
 
Corporate Governance: Situation in India as Compared to Other Countries
with specific reference to Corporate Governance in US and UK
Vivek Sadhale, Vikas Agarwal and Amit Atre, Persistent Systems Limited, India
 
Corporate Governance Liabilities and Obligations of
Directors of Commercial Companies
António Da Cunha Reis, Company Secretary, Portucel – Empresa Produtora de Pasta e Papel S.A. , Portugal
 
Challenges of Antitrust Compliance for Global Companies
Jean-Yves Trochon, Group Deputy General Counsel, Lafarge, France
 
The Structure and Corporate Governance of Rabobank Nederland
Ingrid Van Dooren and Jan Van Ijperenburg, Senior Legal Counsel, Rabobank, Netherlands
 
Etisalat’s Telecoms Regulatory Compliance Program
Kim Hilton, Director Regulatory Legal Affairs and Compliance, Etisalat, UAE
 
Corporate Governance of Listed Companies: Function, Models and Instruments.
Brief Notes on the Experience of a Listed Italian Group
Francesco Chiappetta , Head of Group Function General Counsel & Corporate and Legal Affairs, Telecom Italia Group , Italy
 
Shareholder Engagement and Performance
Dr. Hans-Christoph Hirt, Ll.M. ,Associate Director-European Corporate Governance, Hermes Equity Ownership Services Limited , UK
 
Corporate Governance Ratings
Reha Cirak , Managing Partner, InvestCo Corporate Finance , Turkey
 
A Clash of Cultures:
Implementing a SOX Compliant Whistle-blower Policy in Europe
Toby Hornett , Corporate Counsel, Canon Europe Ltd, UK
 
Reach of U.S. Hands Across the Waters May Impact In-House Counsel
Susan F. Friedman, Senior Vice President & Employed Lawyers Practice Leader, Marsh Inc , USA
 
The Principle “Piercing the Corporate Veil” in Italy
Ferdinando Bruno, Avvocato – Solicitor, LLM, PhD, Director Italian Debt Capital Markets (DCM) Documentation, Global Documentation & Execution Milan, UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking, Italy
 
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Contents

Corporate Governance Ratings
The article focuses on the principles of corporate governance and how rating services affect the companies and the investors regarding the subject. Corporate governance is the concept of applying transparency,...Read more
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Reha Cirak
Managing Partner, InvestCo, Turkey
Corporate Governance of listed companies: function, models and instruments. Brief notes on the experience of a listed Italian Group
Corporate Governance: one size fits all? - Corporate governance has become one of the issues of greatest interest for those who work within a listed company. Recent years have seen...Read more
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Francesco Chiappetta
Chief Legal Officer, Pirelli S.p.A., Italy
Corporations and Their Governance Between History and Practice
To talk about corporate governance means to talk about companies which are artificial persons created by law that often have a life beyond that of their members. The best definition...Read more
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Stefano Catelani
Corporate Counsel, DuPont Co., Switzerland
Corporate Governance Liabilities and Obligations of Directors of Commercial Companies
The development of securities markets led to an intense debate on the structure and control of companies with their share capital open to public investment, as it has been recognised...Read more
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António da Cunha Reis
Company Secretary, Portucel, Empresa Produtora de Pasta e Papel, SA, Portugal
Shareholder Engagement and Performance
The question of whether there is a link between shareholder engagement and performance is significant for a fund manager such as Hermes, which undertakes engagement work on behalf of a...Read more
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Hans-Christoph Hirt
Associate Director-European Corporate Governance, Hermes Pensions Management, UK
Entity Management, Technology and Corporate Governance
Organisations have a critical role in helping corporate governance practitioners navigate the complexities of today's business environment. Ask anyone who is involved in corporate governance and they will tell you...Read more
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Brian Chartier
Director Consultancy Services, Datacare Software Group, USA
The Role of Internal Audit in Corporate Governance. Case: Fiat Group
Recently there has been considerable interest in the Corporate Governance practices of modern corporations. New approaches to doing business have increased the risks connected with the achievement of company's goals....Read more
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Mauro Di Gennaro
Chief Audit Executive & Compliance Officer, FIAT SpA, Italy
A new operational and economical mind-set Corporate governance: a key growth factor
Corporate governance remains for most stakeholders (employees, customers and suppliers) a vague concept. It's framework as displayed to the market and stakeholders is a set of processes, customs, policies and...Read more
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Miriam Fedida
VP, General Counsel- M&A DIANA, Symrise, France
Binding Corporate Rules, the Accenture experience
As a result of the increased awareness of the need to have effective compliance programs in place, the concept of data privacy has recently become very much a hot...Read more
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Anne Wilkes
Independent data protection consultant, ACW Privacy Consulting, UK
Why is there a need for additional EC-guidance on Art 41 of the 8th Directive
Participants in capital markets expect more from company boards and audit committees than ever before. Shareholders expect (and deserve) transparent and reliable information on all significant organisational aspects, not limited to financial...Read more
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Roland de Meulder
Roland de Meulder, Special advisor to ECIIA Board of Directors (European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing ), FIAT SpA, Italy
A clash of cultures: Implementing a SOX compliant whistle-blower policy in Europe
Based on Canon Europe’s experience of implementing a SOX-compliant whistle-blower policy, this paper looks at how US-style whistle-blower policies in Europe can clash with various national laws (mainly data protection)...Read more
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Toby Hornett
L&D Manager, Canon Europe, UK
The structure and corporate governance of Rabobank Nederland
Rabobank is a Dutch financial institution which consists of the member banks (also cooperatives and each licensed as a credit institution), their central organization Rabobank Nederland (also a cooperative entity...Read more
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Ingrid van Dooren
Senior Legal CounselLegal Affairs Corporate, Rabobank, Netherlands
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Jan van Ijperenburg
Senior Legal Counsel, Rabobank, Netherlands
Etisalat's Telecoms Regulatory Compliance Program
In April 2009 Etisalat UAE launched a Telecoms Regulatory Compliance Program (‘Compliance Program’) for the first time. This paper will describe the genesis of Etisalat’s Compliance Program and establishment of...Read more
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Kim Hilton
Director - Regulatory Legal Affairs, Etisalat, UAE
Shark-Infested Waters: The New (And Much More Aggressive) Role of Regulatory Oversight and What You Can Do to Keep Your Company Clean
Whether you work in a small legal department with a handful of lawyers or a large department spanning multiple continents, the importance of managing the behavior of your business clients...Read more
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Jim René
Deputy General Counsel, Alcatel USA, Inc., USA
When Good Faith is Not Good Enough
As the global economic crisis makes its mark, regulators and courts are sounding off with one message coming through loud and clear, ‘flout the rules, pay the penalties’. In-house counsel,...Read more
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Deborah Baron
In-House Counsel, Autonomy Corporation, UK
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Andrew Kanter
In-House Counsel, Autonomy Corporation, UK
The Principle 'Piercing the Corporate Veil' in Italy
The term “piercing the corporate veil” in English Law describes how directors or shareholders in a corporation can be held accountable for the liabilities and debts of the corporation, which...Read more
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Ferdinando Bruno
Head of Italian Restructuring, UniCredit Bank AG, Milan Branch, (UniCredit Group), Italy
Corporate Governance in India as compared to Corporate Governance in Singapore
The decade of 1990s proved to be an important decade for companies as the concept of ‘Corporate Governance’ has changed the entire gamut of corporate practices. Today, Corporate Governance is...Read more
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Vivek Sadhale
Co-Founder, LegaLogic Consulting, India
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Vikas Agarwal
Co-Founder, LegaLogic Consulting, India