Corporate Governance: The Ever Expanding Compliance Obligations of Directors
Scrutinise the many new and evolving duties & risks facing directors, including ASIC & ASX guides, continuous disclosure, insolvency, ESG principles, breach of fiduciary duties, shareholder rights, supply chains & more. Gain in-depth and practical guidance on how organisations, directors and in-house counsel can manage these risks.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Michael Chin, Senior Corporate Lawyer, AGL
The Ever Expanding Compliance Obligations of Directors
- Overview of the expanding duties and risks for directors
- Navigating increased ‘soft law’ guidance
- ASIC Regulatory Guides
- Conflicts; AGMs & shareholder engagements; financial reporting & auditing, continuous disclosure, executive remuneration, insolvent trading
- ASX Governance Principles
- Management; board structure; ethics; financial reporting; disclosure; shareholder rights; stakeholder interests
- Environmental Social & Governance Reporting
- Climate change & environmental risks as ‘material risks’ under ASIC
- ESG Principles: environmental risks; labour practices; product & service controls; competition & supply chains; anti-corruption
- Recent trends & risk profiles for directors
- Breaches of fiduciary duties; trading insolvent; statutory penalties; additional pressures
- How organisations, directors & in-house counsel can manage these risks
Presented by Matt Egerton-Warburton, Partner & Robert Tracy, Partner, Gadens