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Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about Governance Framework Our client, a large private financial services corporation, needed a fresh perspective on their governance framework. We started with open conversations with the board and management to identify their ideal framework. We improved their governance processes, practices and procedures in line with their culture which we had deduced from […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about Governance Health Check Our client, a successful building company was looking to expand the business, seek outside investment and then pursue an exit. We carried out our governance review to prevent any hiccups with investor due diligence checks, their expansion plans (an increased workforce and subsidiaries) and their business valuation on

Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about Governance Health Check Our client, a financial services entity called us as they needed external validation that their governance framework was fit for purpose and embedded effectively. The CEO was keen to understand whether their documentation was appropriately drafted and reflected the current operations of the organisation. Soon after the first

Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about ESG & B-Corp Our client, a listed financial services company, was providing ESG focussed investments funds and felt that as a business they should be demonstrating the same standards as the funds in which they manage. They approached us as a pragmatic, commercially focussed partner; they couldn’t get this wrong. We

Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about Governance Projects Our client, a listed financial services company, asked us to support the work of their AGM and dividend programme. Whilst working with them on this we set up a registrar led asset reunification program (to reunify dormant shareholder assets, namely dividends and shares, with their shareholders). Our advice and

Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about Governance Projects Our client, one of the UK’s largest building societies, asked us to support an audit of their Company Secretarial/Governance Team. We assessed the skills in the team, each of their roles (for stretch and excitement), their interests (though interviews) as well as the quality and efficiency of team delivery.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about Interim Cosec Support Our client, a large corporation, called us as they were potentially looking to hire a Governance Professional but were unsure of the scope for the role and the hours it would take. There was also apprehension on whether the role was required. We came in, assessed what could

Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about Interim Cosec Support Our client, a specialty insurer and investment company, wanted at single engagement minute taking for their upcoming board and committee meetings at short notice. We were required to attend an in-person an Audit and Risk Committee meeting in London followed by a Board meeting held on the same

Reading Time: < 1 minute Find out more about Board Evaluation Our client, a listed IT company, has retained us for ongoing Company Secretarial/governance advice and called us for advice when they discovered that one of their independent Non-Executive Directors, and Chair of the Audit Committee, had an external directorship in an overseas company on the brink of insolvency. The