Advanced Corporate Legal Adviser Course
Course Description
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Training Objective

By the end of this course, delegates will learn about:

  • To familiarize participants with the duties of company directors
  • To examine how company boards organize themselves
  • To alert attendees to the underlying issues which led to the creation of corporate governance as a discipline
  • To highlight the checks and balance that apply to the boards of listed companies
  • To study the framework of governance rules that has been created by the UK Corporate Governance Code.
  • To refresh existing and develop new commercial skills for executives working in or managing the legal function
  • To highlight the importance of the Company Secretary’s role
  • To practice tools and techniques in negotiation

 

Target Audience

  • 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.
  • Investor Relations managers responsible for their organization’s dealings with the finance community.

Training Methods

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

  • Lectures
  • Workshop & Work Presentation
  • Case Studies and Practical Exercise
  • Videos and General Discussions

Daily Agenda

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

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

Corporate failure resulting from poor governance

  • The ineffective board
  • Examples of corporate failure: Maxwell, Polly Peck, Enron, Worldcom
  • 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

Protecting shareholders and other stakeholders

  • The UK Corporate Governance Code
  • The Comply or Explain rule
  • How to protect the shareholder?
  • Communicating with the shareholder
  • A Legal framework for corporate governance

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

  • The pressure for corporate behaviour change
  • The Legal Background of CSR
  • Company directors’ obligations and CSR
  • Voluntary measures
  • Is CSR “Just Public Relations”?
  • CSR and corporate governance links

Roles and responsibilities of company secretary

  • Assisting the Board
  • Record keeping
  • Managing the registered office
  • Supporting and managing board and company meetings

Roles and responsibilities of corporate legal department

  • Typical functions
  • Adding value to company performance
  • Reducing corporate risk
  • Measuring corporate legal performance

Resolving legal disputes

  • Litigation
  • Principles of Arbitration
  • Non-binding dispute resolution methods
  • Mediation
  • Conciliation

Negotiating, drafting and structuring legal agreements

  • Contract law refresher
  • Drafting legal agreements
  • Negotiation principles
  • Tools and techniques for negotiation
  • What are our negotiable?
  • BATNA
Accreditation

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds : (5 -Days)


Code Date Venue Fees Register
MAN104-01 20-04-2025 Doha USD 5450
MAN104-02 22-06-2025 Dubai USD 5450
MAN104-03 10-08-2025 Cairo USD 5450
MAN104-04 19-10-2025 Dubai USD 5450
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  • Start date 20-04-2025
  • End date 24-04-2025

Venue
  • Country Qatar
  • Venue Doha

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