The 8th Annual Asia-Pacific In-house Counsel Summit March 16 & 17 2011 in Hong Kong
17 March 2011: PRACTICE AREA WORKSHOP: Corporate Governance – hosted by Marccus Partners at 14h05
- What corporate counsel need to know when advising company directors i.e. corruption – UK Bribery Act, FCPA;
- Supplier issues – Siemens corruption scandal – Siemens starting to force its suppliers to sign up to very tough compliance standards;
- Directors and officers (D&O) liability – the evolving nature of the prosecution of directors by shareholder groups and regulators; corporate collapses from GFC created perfect storm of shareholder, creditor and regulator outrage; has been big upsurge in legal actions against companies and directors as investors and liquidators galvanise to recover losses and regulators crack down on ‘socalled’ corporate crooks;
- Regulator enforcement activity i.e. SFC prosecuting insider trading; regulators have used their powers to compel corporates to produce information and attend extensive interviews in recent years; summonses often go out to multiple directors and executives, which only increases the time and costs, as every individual called up needs to have capable legal representation.
Confirmed speakers:
Dr Norbert Knittlmayer, partner, Marccus Partners
Stephen Brown, director – investor relations, Noble Group Limited
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