Governance teams can enhance their contributions to a company and its board by routinely briefing management and board members, cataloguing firm’s SEC comment letters and more
Effective in-house counsel strive to ‘see around corners’, to anticipate and manage important topics before they develop into challenging issues for the corporation. Good corporate secretaries and their teams are no exception. Corporate Secretary contacted in-house governance leaders at a variety of public companies to gather examples of how their teams most effectively serve as proactive partners. They described projects that make their senior management and board members take notice, which in turn, they hope, garners recognition for their companies and their boards among investors and other corporate boards.
