Corporate Governance

Organising corporate governance

Family-business governance systems

We help companies perform the overall assessment of governance system and identify any potential weaknesses or possible threats.

We support them in planning their overall corporate model and its operating mechanisms, in assessing and defining criteria and methods to optimise relations between the family and the company governance system (including by way of 'patti di famiglia' ['family business agreements', governing succession among family members])

We plan solutions for placing family members in management roles and assess the establishment of ownership representation bodies, while protecting family members not involved in management of the business.

Management and control systems

We support companies in identifying the target structure of the board of directors and the management board, defining its composition and methods of operation (delegations, remuneration, distribution of powers).

We help clients choose directors, assessing the individual skills and independence required of some directors. We are available as professionals to provide expert and independent support within the Board of Directors.

Boards of statutory auditors and independent directors

We identify the scope of the supervisory activities and its methods of performance based on the risk approach principle, in accordance with best international practices.

We undertake planning with regard to supervision (relating to the board of statutory auditors, the management control committee or the supervisory board) of directors' activities, contributing to preparing information reports and exchanging information with the legal auditor of the accounts, by way of joint meetings that offer organisational benefits.

We perform supervisory activities in relation to the assessment of the organisational, management and accounting structure pertaining to the management body, in order to enable the adoption of any necessary corrective measures.

Succession/continuity processes

We support business people in planning and managing corporate succession, and prepare succession plans and identify solutions for the exit of shareholders.

We support customers in identifying and implementing "patti di famiglia” [family business agreements], assessing and identifying the most appropriate methods for transferring quotas or shares within and outside family groups.

We support businesses in establishing managerialization processes.

Organizational models and supervisory bodies

We support the top management of the company in developing organisational, management and control models in accordance with Italian Legislative Decree 231/01.

We perform inspection, control and audit activities through participation in supervisory bodies, and carry out audit and consultancy activites, including in conjunction with supervisory bodies.

We help clients set out management and operational procedures, we analyse the structure of responsibilities and powers of attorney and develop power structure models that comply with operational risk prevention principles.

We establish implementation and sanction mechanisms in relation to the model developed, and develop plans for communicating and disseminating the model, including by way of review of the contractual instruments used by the company, in order to protect it.

Corporate social responsibility

We support top management in putting tools in place that are useful for the effective management of corporate, social and ethical issues and plan mechanisms to regulate dealings with internal and external stakeholders.

We assess and identify the corporate social responsibility tools best suited to the specific features of each company: social responsibility and sustainability report, SA 8000 ethical management systems.