Corporate Governance services

Our Risk Advisory Service is both global and integrated. Our local professionals have a good understanding of the governance challenges that your organisation may face both locally and across multiple jurisdictions and capital markets.

You can rely on us for expert, practical advice and support to design and implement corporate governance practices fit for your business and your challenges. Our services include;

• An independent assessment of your current governance practices
• Supporting you in defining and implementing a suitable governance framework
• Board and Committee performance evaluation
• Design of Board and Committee charters as well as delegation authorities and policies
• Review of the Board relative to the strategic direction
• Culture assessments
• Governance training
• Strategic governance advice to Boards and CEOs 

How can we help you?

Private market

The scope of our services also covers ongoing corporate support for entities that are taking their first steps in the private market:

• advisory on how to start a business, in particular, choosing legal form of the intended operation,
• establishing companies in Nigeria and abroad (e.g. Edo, Sokoto and other),
• representation in registration proceedings before the National Court Register (KRS),
• day-to-day legal services for companies, including the preparation of internal documentation,
• liquidations of partnerships and companies,
• preparing regulations of the company’s governing bodies and other internal documents pertaining to its operation (contracts, statutes, regulations, powers of attorney),
• legal services for management board meetings and supervisory board meetings, meetings of shareholders/general meetings of shareholders,
• cooperation with financing entities, comprehensive legal advisory on company financing,
• representation in proceedings before common courts (e.g. in registration proceedings, proceedings concerning liability of management board members, corporate disputes),
• we ensure that the share dematerialization process is carried out properly,
• we verify capital structures, including those with cross-border elements, to identify and register actual beneficiaries.

Public market

We focus our efforts on providing clients whose shares are traded on a regulated market with effective solutions for, inter alia:

• implementation of ‘Best Practice for GPW Listed Companies’ and ‘Best Practice for New Connect Listed Companies’ by companies, their governing bodies and shareholders,
• auditing existing corporate governance rules,
• implementing guidelines, directives and recommendations of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority resulting from supervisory practice and of other supervisory authorities,
• identifying events constituting confidential information as defined in the MAR Regulation,
• preparing drafts of current reports related to the company’s operating activity,
• implementing individual standards for managing confidential information in the company, leading to the preparation of comprehensive documentation for the exchange and notification of confidential information, as well as internal rules for handling confidential information,
• conducting an audit of applicable MAR procedures, comprising tests concerning operation of procedures, verification of documentation existing in the company and knowledge held by strategic personnel of the entrepreneur,
• designing whistleblowing systems,
• trainings for members of company governing bodies and managers.