Compliance and risk management for entrepreneurs

Compliance and risk management for entrepreneurs

Rights, Duties and Liability of the Managing Director – Compliance and Risk Management for Entrepreneurs

• Compliance: New liability risks for managing directors and authorized signatories
• Focus on sales: actively controlling compliance risks
• Actively manage duties as managing director and authorized signatory
• What is important for the managing director contract and the authorized representative contract?

Target group for the seminar compliance and risk management for entrepreneurs

• Owners, entrepreneurs, managing directors and board members, managing partners;
• Authorized officers and executives, successors, shareholders, supervisory and administrative boards;
• Executives seeking a position as managing directors; Compliance officers and employees of compliance and legal departments.

Your benefit with the seminar compliance and risk management for entrepreneurs

Your advantage with the seminar compliance and risk management for entrepreneurs

Compliance: New liability risks for managing directors and authorized signatories

• VW, Siemens & Co. – scale for all?
• Establishment and activation of the compliance organization
• Responsibility Compliance: Guarantee Guarantee – BGH Judgment of 17 July 2009 – Business Judgment Rule
• Best practice in implementing a code of conduct
• Tax compliance – tax declarations & Co .: Know duty of care and purposefully control
• New liability risks: money laundering prevention, transparency register and data protection

Compliance in sales

• Hazard analysis: Compliance-relevant review of all sales processes
• Code of Conduct: Using Standards of Conduct in the Company
• Gifts and Entertainment Guidelines: What Can I Offer? What can I accept?
• Corruption in Germany and abroad: kick-back payments, cooperations and bonus schemes

Actively manage duties as managing director and authorized signatory

• What liability claims can be asserted against managing directors and authorized officers?
• Main duties under control: Capital conservation, accounting & Co.
• Minimum control requirements as managing director and authorized signatory – what should you pay attention to?
• Companies in crisis – know and supervise due diligence
• Actively limit criminal law risks as managing director and authorized signatory

What is important for the managing director contract and the authorized representative contract?

• What do managers and authorized officers need to know about their own employment contract?
• On which regulations do I have to respect as managing director and authorized officer urgently?
• What competences may managers, authorized signatories and authorized representatives exercise?
• Single and total power of attorney, real and “unreal” power of attorney
• Liability trap: dismissal of the managing director and authorized signatory