Chartered company secretaries and corporate legal advisers are senior positions in any private-sector company or public-sector organization. They are responsible for the efficient administration of a company, particularly ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and ensuring that decisions of the board of directors are implemented. Secretaries and legal advisers are the company's named representatives on legal documents, and it is their responsibility to ensure that the company and its directors operate within the law.

It is also their responsibility to register and communicate with shareholders, to ensure that dividends are paid and to maintain company records, such as lists of directors and shareholders, and annual accounts. This course features the best of corporate governance subject areas with key elements of the function of the Company Secretary and In-House Legal Department. Participants will learn about the mandatory and voluntary checks and balances that should be in place in an organization’s structure to reduce the risk of corporate governance failure.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to;

• Review and clarify the duties of company directors
• Compare best practices of how company boards are organized. 
• Appreciate the purpose of corporate governance as a discipline
• List and discuss the checks and balances that apply to the boards of listed companies
• Understand the framework of governance rules as it applies to the Corporate Governance Code.
• Develop new business skills as executives working in or managing the legal department functions.
• Appreciate the importance of the Company Secretary’s role
• Acquire new skills, practical tools and techniques for effective negotiation to broker better deals for the organization

For Whom:

This program is designed for Company Executive and Non- Executive Directors, Shareholder representatives, Pension and Investment Fund Managers, Public officials in regulatory, supervisory or compliance functions, Company Secretaries of public companies, Executives involved in strategic and operational functions, including finance, corporate strategy, human resource, 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 and Investor Relations managers responsible for their organization’s dealings with the finance community