How can DYP Advisors strengthen your corporate governance and compliance?
We provide corporate governance services that bring together business and legal insights. In doing so, we can help boards of directors, corporate secretaries, and in-house counsel more effectively do their jobs. Not only do we help you satisfy legal and regulatory requirements, we give you strategy and business model insights. We help the board of directors satisfy its two main responsibilities: risk oversight and strategy. As appropriate, we involve top management and investors to enhance the power of our services.
A central part of our approach is executive education and board of directors training.
For small to medium size companies, including nonprofit organizations, we can serve as Corporate Secretary to ensure that corporate governance works smoothly. We also work with in-house and outside legal counsel and board members to enhance governance.
For larger companies, including public companies and companies with subsidiaries, we support and strengthen the Corporate Secretary, General Counsel, Outside Counsel, and Internal Audit with our services in Risk Oversight and Compliance and Strategy.
For investment funds, such as hedge funds, private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices, we enhance governance in your portfolio companies to improve operational and financial performance.
General Corporate Governance
We help you build the foundations of corporate governance:
- Board education – trends in corporate governance, strategy and business models, ethics and compliance, corporate social responsibility, mergers and acquisitions
- Policies – insider trading, director independence, related party transactions, conflicts of interest, communications with shareholders, board approvals
- Committees – develop committee charters, evaluate operations and staffing, provide support
Risk Oversight and Compliance
We help you better manage risk and improve compliance:
- Ethics and compliance programs – establish, evaluate, refine, educate regarding corporate compliance and ethical guidelines; promote adherence to code of conduct, ethical business conduct, behavior with integrity; advise companies with global and international operations on compliance with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act
- Compliance with securities law and regulations – ensure conformity with Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and other Securities Act and Exchange Act requirements
- Stock exchange requirements – ensure that governance practices satisfy the requirements of stock exchanges
Strategy
We help strengthen the strategy function of corporate governance:
- Strategy – review and recommend through reports, in-person discussions, and education; we focus on superior alignment of strategy and organization to increase value creation and capture; address the the risks of strategy execution
- Business models – review market trends and competitors to provide insight into opportunities for growth and innovation
- Deal review and approval – assist the board in analyzing mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances for value creation potential
- International and global business – understand and make the most of opportunities in other countries from an integrated strategy, law, and organization perspective
- The relationship between top management and the board – advise on this critical relationship to improve the effectiveness of governance practices
We help private and public companies formulate practical, effective governance practices.
