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Corporate Governance

Premium corporate governance and compliance advice for businesses navigating complex regulatory challenges across global markets.

Meeting corporate governance and compliance obligations is a constant challenge for businesses operating in today’s fast-changing regulatory environment. Directors, company secretaries, and in-house counsel need to ensure robust procedures and processes are established and maintained, to manage risk and support business growth.

Ongoing business needs often include advice on company incorporations, appropriate investment or shareholding structures, secretarial services, and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. Companies regularly require support with amendments and updates to articles of association, the convening and holding of general meetings, directors’ duties, and listed company obligations, as well as guidance on directors’ and officers’ liability and more general corporate health checks.

Our experienced team advises listed and private companies on the full spectrum of governance and compliance matters. By working closely with clients and drawing on our international offices and network of local lawyers, we deliver seamless support for group companies on matters including company filings, registry compliance, and records maintenance, appropriately tailored to each jurisdiction’s requirements.

Clients choose us for our strong reputation. We are known for delivering constructive, innovative solutions that address both day-to-day and strategic challenges, and for helping to ensure best practice compliance, while supporting long-term business objectives.

Our Services

Advising listed companies on corporate governance, compliance, and board best practice.

  • Insurance Provider
    Advised a leading provider of business insurance on the corporate governance requirements applicable to larger, regulated private companies, taking into account current guidance and best practice as applicable to them.
  • FTSE250 Company
    Providing corporate governance advice including establishing procedures and an overseeing committee in relation to inside information requirements and advising in relation to the publishing of analyst consensus forecasts.
  • Cathay International Holdings 
    Advised this main market (premium segment) listed China focused conglomerate on the application of the Listing Rules, including the implementation of the new ‘controlling shareholder’ regime.
  • BTG plc
    Advised on re-writing their corporate governance handbook in accordance with, among other things, the Corporate Governance Code. We have also re-written their directors’ indemnities.
  • easyHotel Plc
    Advised this high-profile budget hotels group on the implementation of a corporate governance regime on its admission to trading on AIM and ongoing advice thereafter.
  • Patagonia Gold Plc
    Advised the AIM-quoted company on its ongoing corporate governance requirements, including advising on appropriate board composition, good board practice, the interpretation of its remuneration, audit and nomination committee terms of reference and advising on matters to be reserved for the board.

Advising clients on corporate governance for employee incentives and regulatory compliance.

  • Providing ongoing advice to a variety of clients on the corporate governance aspects of employee incentives, including the application of the IMA principles of remuneration, the UK Corporate Governance Code, AIM Rules, Listing Rules and Model Code.
  • Steer Davies Gleave
    Advised the transportation consultancy business on a transformational restructuring to create an employee-owned business through the use of a trust structure involving cutting edge corporate, tax and incentives advice.

Advising on directors’ remuneration reporting and regulatory compliance for clients.

  • Advising several FTSE 250 clients on their reporting obligations pursuant to the directors’ remuneration regulations and advising financial services clients on compliance with the extensive regulation relating to remuneration policies and structures.

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