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Corporate Governance and Compliance
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As a corporate governance practitioner, more so than in other areas of
corporate law, I act as a counselor to my clients in the traditional sense of
the term. I help them navigate the changing landscape of applicable
regulatory schemes in complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, stock exchange
listing requirements, and the like. I assist in developing corporate
governance practices and policies, and I appropriately document,
memorialize, and implement such practices and policies.
Most importantly, I counsel my clients on recent developments and the
ever-evolving concepts of accepted best practices in the corporate
governance area and how those developments affect my clients. In
developing a corporate governance program, it is critically important to
understand the business of the client and the industry (or industries) in
which they operate and compete. Appropriate policies and procedures
designed to promote the ethical and appropriate conduct of a company’s
officers, directors, and employees must be carefully tailored to fit the needs
of your client to achieve those objectives without unduly burdening the
organization with preconceived notions of generalized best practices.
Imposing multiple layers of governance procedures that only serve to
increase the burdens and expense of compliance are wasteful and can result
in the perverse outcome of actually reducing the overall effectiveness of
your governance program. As energy is diverted from pursuing truly
meaningful and effective governance initiatives, participants develop
negative views toward a company’s compliance policies that affect their
desire to pursue, and effectiveness at complying with, a company’s
governance framework. It is hard, if not impossible, to inculcate a positive
corporate culture of compliance if those who are primarily responsible for
implementing compliance policies are overwhelmed and exasperated with
marginally useful layers of policies that have been adopted in the name of
good governance or best practices.
Christopher Boies - Personal Name
1st Edition
978-1-59622-714-9
NONE
Corporate Governance and Compliance
Corporate Governance
English
Aspatore, Inc.
2007
USA
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