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Practical Seminars for Company Secretaries
“Keep up-to-date with our practical
take on the latest issues affecting
company secretaries. Specifically,
our programme will include topical
sessions on cyber security and
corporate culture.”
Jon Edis-Bates
Wednesday 3 June 2015
Timing
Hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers
1 Embankment Place
London WC2N 6RH
Coffee and registration from 8.30 am.
Seminar starts at 9.00 am and finishes at 12.30 pm,
followed by a buffet lunch.
Cost
Thursday 9 July 2015
Hosted by Legal & General Group plc
One Coleman Street
London EC2R 5AA
1st delegate: £335 + VAT
Subsequent delegates: £295 + VAT
CPD
3.5 hours
If you would like to join us, please complete and return the separate booking form.
‘Excellent mix of topics. Great networking opportunity as well.’
‘If you attend only one seminar a year, it should be one of these.’
‘A morning grounded in practicalities.’
The Speakers
We are running two seminars this summer
(they are broadly identical) which will cover the
following areas:
Carol Shutkever
Herbert Smith Freehills
Legal Update
Carol Shutkever of Herbert Smith Freehills (3 June) and
Prof. Vanessa Knapp OBE (9 July) will provide an update
on a range of current UK and EU legal issues, including
in particular the Small Business, Enterprise and
Employment Act 2015.
Prof. Vanessa Knapp OBE
Company Law and Corporate
Governance Consultant
Kate Elsdon
Subsidiary Governance
Kate Elsdon of PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal will look at
how boards are handling the risk of inadequate governance
of their subsidiaries, focusing on specific actions by boards
to mitigate that risk.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal
Jon Edis-Bates
Edis-Bates Associates
Practical Considerations
Jon Edis-Bates will cover developments in corporate
governance, including the forthcoming proposals from the
Financial Reporting Council on succession planning and
nomination committees.
Jane Jenkins
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Cyber Security
Jane Jenkins of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (3 June)
and Stephen Bonner of KPMG (9 July) will talk about the
cyber security threat currently facing major companies,
forthcoming regulation and the practical steps boards
should be taking to counter this threat.
Corporate Values and Standards
Prof. Paul Moxey of London South Bank University will
cover the issues surrounding corporate culture and the
measures which boards should be putting in place in order
effectively to set the tone from the top.
Stephen Bonner
KPMG
Prof. Paul Moxey
London South Bank University
Our terms of business for these seminars are set out in our separate
booking form, a copy of which is also available on our website at
www.edis-bates.com
Edis-Bates Associates Ltd, The Hour House, 32 High Street, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire WD3 1ER
Tel: 01923 335335 Fax: 01923 774435 Email: louise.gull@edis-bates.com
www.edis-bates.com