General Counsel’s Role in Maximizing Board Effectiveness 2014

Highlights:

• Hear from some of Canada’s sharpest legal minds on what it takes to enhance your organization’s governance practices

• Explore leading practitioners’ best practices for ensuring adherence to high legal and ethical standards of behaviour

• See how the general counsel can limit the possibility of director liability

• Walk through best practices in fulfilling your duties to the board when handling a corporate crisis

• Explore emerging governance issues, the tactics being employed by shareholder activists and how a board and corporation can be proactive in the face of new shareholder activism

Participants:

• Aecon Group Inc.

• Bank of Montreal

• Bennett Jones LLP

• BMO Financial Group

• Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP

• McCarthy Tétrault LLP

• Miller Thomson LLP

• Open Text Corporation

• The Anderson Governance Group

• Toronto Transit Commission

• Torys LLP

• WeirFoulds LLP