Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Risk Advisory: Corporate Governance

Caroline advises her clients on the full spectrum of corporate governance issues, and regularly trains both public and private company boards and client teams on new and forthcoming legal developments.

Her areas of focus includes: developments in public disclosures and corporate reporting, including in relation to annual reports and climate and sustainability reporting; annual general meetings and shareholder engagement strategies; directors' duties, liabilities and conflict issues and directors' indemnities; compliance with listed company continuing obligations, including the UK Market Abuse Regulation; corporate governance considerations, including approaches to and compliance with the UK Corporate Governance Code; corporate governance advice in relation to strategic transactions; subsidiary and joint venture governance matters.

Caroline provides commercial and pragmatic advice on governance and company secretarial issues, having spent more than two and a half years on client secondments over the course of her career at HSF.