Introduction to Company Law and Administration

Description

This webinar provides a concise overview of company law and administration, highlighting key features like separate legal personality and limited liability. It explores the uses of companies, such as asset holding and business operations, while examining directors’ duties, liabilities, and powers in governance and compliance. Participants will also learn how to demonstrate effective management and control offshore, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. This session equips attendees with the essential knowledge for effective company administration and governance.

This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers a structured learning experience designed to deliver actionable outcomes. Participants will gain valuable insights and practical skills to apply in their professional roles.

Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.

 

Content 

  • Features of a company

  • Uses of a company

  • Directors’ duties, liabilities, and powers

  • Demonstrating effective management and control offshore

 

Presenter

Jo French

Expert Trainer at the School of International Financial Services

Jo French 

Jo, through her company JETT Limited, specialises in developing contemporary bespoke, technical in-house CPD programmes covering a range of AML, compliance and governance issues. She has over 25 years’ experience in delivering credible training to a wide range of financial service businesses both in the Crown Dependencies and internationally, as well as institutions that include the BBA, the ACSP in the Isle of Man, Guernsey Training Agency and the Jersey International Business School where her role also extended to delivering on Buckingham University’s BSc (Hons) in International Financial Services degree as part of their faculty. 

In addition, she has taught on the International Compliance Association’s full range of AML and compliance qualifications since 2005, and as a Fellow of the Governance Institute (formally ICSA) written and delivered across both level 4&5 Certificate and Diploma, as well as the qualifying scheme, (subjects include Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Boardroom Dynamics, Company Law and Company Compliance and Administration.) Jo’s ICSA students have won many international prizes, most recently in Trust and Company Administration in May 2021, and CORE in the  November 2021 exams. 

A committed educationalist, Jo has a First Class Law Degree (LLB) and Masters in Law (LLM) (Merit) from Queen Mary University of London specialising in financial services law. She is passionate about the delivery of accessible and innovative training courses.