An Introduction to Company Secretarial Practice and Procedure

This course is for the young lawyer who has embraced the role of a company secretary by starting his/her own private practice with the provision of ‘company secretarial services’ as part of its portfolio; or the practicing lawyer who has now decided to embrace the new role of ‘company secretary’ by breaking out of external practice, to go in-house. This introductory course aims to provide a primary understanding of the key aspects and elements of company secretarial practice and its associated expectations, and to equip such prospective or new company secretaries with the preliminaries required to approach their day to day routine with a practical understanding of the job expectations.

At the end of the course, students should have practical understanding of the basics a company secretary must know to be relevant in practice and successful in their profession. The learners will be able to:

• Understand and meet the job responsibilities and expectations
• Prepare Minutes and Agendas for Board and Annual General Meetings
• Actively convene Board Meetings and Annual General Meetings.
• Develop a corporate compliance calendar
• Provide corporate governance support to its Board of Directors.
• Provide key function support to the other functions/departments/management.
• Prepare a corporate governance tracker.
• Create a company secretariat that can adequately support the objectives of the business.
• Ensure information flow from Management to the Board and vice versa.
• Summarize decisions and resolutions reached at Board meetings into minutes
• Ensure a Board Charter is in place
• Promote, review and ensure compliance of the corporate governance framework.
• Prepare Agenda for Board / Board Committees’ meetings.
• Prepare and run meetings using checklists
• Develop a corporate compliance calendar.
• Ensure the company meets all its corporate filing obligations.
• Prepare a Year Planner for Board /Board Committee meetings

Pricing

Standard Price: N30,000