Overview
Enron and other local and international corporate scandals, financial collapse and attacks on corporate reputation could have been averted with proactive and best practice legal risk management. Calamitous legal and reputational penalties to companies, directors, and officers, as well as external advisers would never have eventuated. Legal risk is now an integral part of the boardroom agenda, regardless of the size of the organisation. This provides a new challenge for in-house lawyers, who can play a crucial role in ensuring that a risk-aware culture prevails across the organisation. Any successful risk management programme must start within the management and its operations.
This newly introduced seminar will give participants the guidance and information necessary to design, install and begin to run a compliance and legal risk management system, or to review the existing system and put in place further preventive measures to minimise the organisation’s exposure to compliance and legal risk. It will also show participants how to protect in-house clients and interact with regulators, supervisors and stakeholders.
Learning Objectives and Benefits
On this programme, participants will learn how to:
- Design, install and implement a compliance management framework for their organisation
- Improve the organisation’s legal compliance
- Deal with the risk of corporate criminal liability in the organisation
- Install an effective system of legal audit
- Reduce legal costs and risk of damages
- Assist the Board to institute formal structures to review and manage legal risk
- Distinguish between governance, compliance, risk management and ethics
- Ensure that a risk-aware culture prevails in the organisation.
Who should attend
The programme with benefit the following groups:
- In-house counsel
- Heads of legal departments
- Compliance officers and managers
- Risk officers and managers
- Senior corporate counsel and advisers
- Compliance officers
- Company secretaries
Structure and Curriculum
- Legal risk management and practice
- Compliance and legal risk framework
- Corporate criminal liability
- Governance, compliance, risk management and ethics
Admission process
1. Click on the Apply Now tab
2. Select the number of participants to enroll on the programme
3. Fill in your details to complete your application
4. Request for an invoice or make an instant payment via our secured payment gateway
5. Upon confirmation of payment, a programme manager will get in touch with you at least three days before the programme commences.
Faculty
Olawale Ajai is the Professor of Legal, Social and Political Environment of Business and Head, Department of Strategy at the Lagos Business School. He holds a PhD in law and facilitates sessions on business law, financial inclusion/digital economy and law, non-market strategy, microeconomics of competitiveness and public policy/administration. His research focuses on financial inclusion/digital technology laws and policies, business laws, corporate sustainability, corporate governance and non-market strategy. He is a member of the Environmental Law Commission of the IUCN, Bonn, Germany. He is the Public Policy Lead for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded ‘Sustainable Business Models for Delivering Digital Financial Services to Lower Unbanked Citizens of Nigeria’ Research Project at Lagos Business School, 2015 to date.
He was formerly Group Company Secretary/Legal Adviser; Executive Director, Human Capital and Executive Director, Marketing and Strategy at Dunlop Nigeria Plc. He was also at various times, Senior Research Fellow, Associate Research Professor and Ag. Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. He was a member of Council/ Chair of the Professional Development Committee of Chartered Institute of Personnel Managers of Nigeria for ten years. He has drafted major national legislation on environmental and natural resources law.
Franklin N Ngwu is the Director of Lagos Business School (LBS) Sustainability Centre and an Associate Professor of Strategy, Corporate Governance, and Risk Management. He has a PhD in Law and Economics of Banking Regulation, an MSc in Economics, and a Post-graduate Diploma in Development Economics from the University of Manchester, UK. He has consulted for both local and international organizations and worked in Barclays Bank UK for over five years. In Nigeria, he has provided either training or consulting services to many firms including Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), African Development Bank(AfDB), StanbicIBTC, First Bank of Nigeria(FBN), Banwo & Ighodalo, WAPIC Insurance, Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE), Asset & Resource Management Holding Company (ARM), Nigerian Breweries Plc, AXA Mansard, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc, Airtel Nigeria and many other organisations.