We design and implement corporate governance solutions for public and private sector organizations, by assessing the extent of the client’s compliance with the relevant statutes and codes on corporate governance, and any industry specific governance requirements. Further, by undertaking a gap analysis of the organization’s current status juxtaposed to the prescriptions of national (and international) governance codes, we are able to generate high-level and detailed corporate governance reviews addressing actual, perceived and potential risks. We are also able to provide advice with regard to risk mitigating measures, to ensure or restore sound governance. Our recommendations are tailored to suit each organization’s purpose, highlighting any weak spots and filling in any gaps as they unfurl. We effectively identify the risks of these gaps so that the board can make informed decisions and efficiently develop and deploy the requisite strategies.
We put your governance program into context and help you gain clarity on where your relative strengths and weaknesses are vis-à-vis your industry peers, utilizing a balanced holistic approach. Our analysis is thorough! right from our document review to our board surveys and how we professionally engage all relevant stakeholders. We will help you chart new frontiers in your governance transformation. Our ultimate goal is to help you eliminate or significantly reduce corporate failure, questionable business and accounting practices, independence and conflict issues, and move your organization towards its goals, preventing conflicts, and nurturing an open environment that promotes structure in planning and agility in execution.
Governance Audit, Process Review, Gap Survey & Analysis
Governance Best Practice Research, Benchmarking, Development & Implementation
Regulatory Engagement, Compliance & Reporting
Investee Corporate Governance Appraisal and Due Diligence
Board Skills and Diversity Audit
Meetings Efficiency Audit
Statutory Compliance Audit
Corporate Secretariat Performance, Productivity and Efficiency Evaluation
Governance Crisis Management
Corporate Records Regularization
Anti-Corruption and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Audit
Outsourced Administration: Agendas and Board Packs Development
Global Governance - Statutory Compliance, Corporate Restructurings, and Overseas Incorporations
Independent Internal Assessments and Investigations
Conflicts of Interest and Related Party Transactions Audit
Governance and Compliance Issues Related to Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Major Transactions
Trainings and Re-orientation
Why does your organization exist?
What are you trying to achieve?
What are your board's practices and ancillary policies?
Is your board's structure built to support your purpose?
Do your board members understand their role and measurebly demonstrate this understanding?
A comprehensive review of your organization's existing and prospective governance modalities.
An identification of weakness in your corporate systems, structures, documentation and procedures.
A review of your operational procedures, with a view to ascertain their degree of legal compliance and the protection they afford your organization.
A comprehensive audit of your compliance with regulatory and corporate statutory returns requirements.
A review of your secretarial practices, with the view to ascertaining due compliance with the relevant law(s) and best practice recommendations.
As a consequence of our high level governance audit process, we are able to generate a Corporate Governance Analysis Report (CGAR), to provide your board with an accurate breakdown of identified areas of risk. Our CGAR effectively takes into consideration over 120 governances parameters relating to pertinent pillars of a good governance system. The CGAR would be a detailed interpretation of each audit activity, and would profer practical solutions to the risks identified. Our underlying experience in other areas of law also come to bear in our CGAR analysis.
The ultimate outocme for you is better organizational strategies, improved operational and process efficiency, more prudent regulatory complaince, improved stakeholder engagement, and an increased agility to deliver on your organizational purpose.
Distilled from experience garnered from cumulative decades of practice, we have developed a bouquet of internal policies and operating manuals, that are adaptable, customizable and may be implemented to suit corporate institutions of various types and size, whether privately held, public owned and/or listed. The Zircon Strategy Policies On the GoTM is a top of the class bouquet of 25 simple, comprehensible and user-friendly governance policy frameworks, featuring the following policy documents: