This course prepares directors, managers, and advisers to identify and manage the governance risks that arise when an organisation operates across countries, partners, and regulatory regimes. It covers board oversight, accountability for overseas operations, conflicts of interest, third-party risk, and the controls that keep decisions lawful and explainable.
Participants learn to map where governance weakens as business crosses borders, to set decision rights between headquarters and local entities, and to respond when a governance failure is found. The emphasis is on structures and behaviours that protect the organisation, not on a single country’s company law. The course supports sound global governance. It is not a substitute for legal advice in a specific jurisdiction, and it does not teach methods for concealing misconduct or for evading regulatory duties.
1. What governance risk is: failure of direction, oversight, or accountability
2. Board duties and management duties when operations are abroad
3. Different legal and ownership forms: subsidiary, branch, joint venture, and agent
4. Where risk rises: distance, local pressure, language, and informal practice
5. The difference between commercial risk and governance risk
6. Workshop: Identifying governance risks in a sample multi-country structure
1. Reserved matters for the board or headquarters
2. What may be delegated to local management, and on what conditions
3. Reporting lines that do not depend on a single local relationship
4. Related-party transactions and conflicts of interest
5. Local boards, nominees, and shareholder agreements
6. Workshop: Drafting a decision-rights list for headquarters and a country operation
1. Agents, distributors, and intermediaries
2. Joint-venture partners and unequal information
3. Gifts, hospitality, and facilitation pressure
4. Speak-up routes that reach beyond the local manager
5. Conduct standards that apply wherever the organisation operates
6. Workshop: Reviewing a third-party arrangement for governance and conduct risk
1. Authority limits, procurement controls, and appointment checks
2. Management information the board actually needs from overseas units
3. Early-warning signs of governance failure
4. When an allegation must be escalated, preserved, and independently examined
5. Remediation: people, process, and disclosure
6. Workshop: Designing an escalation and reporting standard for material governance issues
1. Governance review after market entry, acquisition, or restructuring
2. Assurance: internal audit, compliance, and external review
3. Training and tone from headquarters
4. Keeping the framework current as the footprint changes
5. Capstone: Present a governance-risk framework covering decision rights, third-party controls, escalation, reporting to the board, and review triggers
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