Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): RGS and The Chartered Governance Institute team up.
Earlier in the year, Kerry Round, managing director of Round Governance was invited to be a guest on the Chartered Governance Institute’s Engage Governance podcast to talk about how the governance of a company will change following an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
‘Understanding IPO governance’—Give it a listen.
Kerry talks board structure, responsibilities, composition, and the need for board diversity. The discussion outlines how an IPO will affect important stakeholders such as employees, the policies a company should have in place, the necessary disclosures, and which external bodies the company secretary or governance professional will collaborate with.
If podcasts aren’t you’re thing, Kerry also expanded on her discussion points in a four-part blog series covering the same topic. You can read them all here:
2. Following an IPO, is it necessary to change the current board structure within an organisation?
3. Following an IPO, will keeping certain board roles cause problems?
4. Diversity on a board is a nice to have not a need to have – true or false?
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