Special training for corporate secretaries and directors

MANILA, Philippines - The Center for Global Best Practices is holding an MCLE-accredited seminar entitled, “Best Practices In Corporate Housekeeping:  The Experts’ Guide On How to Be An Effective Corporate Secretary” on Thursday and Friday, April 18 & 19, 2013 at The Peninsula Hotel, Makati City. This special pioneering program teaches board directors, corporate secretaries, assistant corporate secretaries and lawyers the knowledge and professional skills on how to be an effective corporate secretary and how to perform the functions of corporate housekeeping.  The term “corporate housekeeping” refers to the multitude of services that a corporate secretary (who could be a lawyer or a non-lawyer) need to perform for a corporate entity. It is what every corporation needs to do and to know to function well.

Whether you are a lawyer servicing a corporate client, a professional or a family member assigned to the board as a corporate secretary, or the board director and owner of a corporation, you must know how corporate housekeeping should be executed properly. This one-of-a-kind program is the only public seminar on the topic that is exclusively for those who want to professionalize their role as a board director, corporate secretary, assistant corporate secretary, and a law or accounting firm servicing a corporation. 

This one-and-a-half day seminar would be also be of special benefit to, among others, corporations, business owners, directors, and management who may want to know how best to use the services of the corporate secretary; new lawyers who may wish to learn the best practices in corporate housekeeping; older lawyers who may want to shift to corporate practice or to broaden their knowledge of such practice; law firms and corporate law departments who may wish to provide additional training to their lawyers and paralegals; compliance officers of public corporations; and accountants, auditors, and accounting firms who may wish to expand their services so as to include the provision of corporate housekeeping services to their clients. Sample forms, resolutions, documents, contracts, and other useful reference materials will be provided.  This kind of specialized training is not available and taught in any school in the country. For more details on this and other events, check www.cgbp.org or call Camille Jonas at (02) 556-8968/ 69 Cebu lines (032) 512-3106/ 07), Baguio number (074) 423-5148 or email [email protected].

The program will feature lawyer Tristan A. Catindig (A.B., cum laude, U.P. 1962; LL.B., cum laude, U.P. 1966; LL.M., Harvard Law School, Harvard University scholar, 1969) who has been in corporate law practice for more than 40 years, 26 years of which were with the largest law firm in the Philippines, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan, where he was senior partner and head, corporate services department. The second lecturer will be lawyer Jason Nalupta, partner of the Tan Venturanza Valdez Law Office.