Corporate governance
The trend to ever-greater regulation and compliance, in an era of increased transparency, means that today’s GC has a vital role to play in toughening governance models.
‘It’s a very different world, and the trend to ever-greater compliance is only going to continue. The corporate governance landscape today is almost unrecognisable from a couple of decades ago.’
Gareth Sykes is bound to say that – his entire practice at Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) is dedicated to corporate governance and he is proud of his firm for grasping the nettle and becoming the ‘first major City firm to set up a dedicated governance practice’. The trouble is, he speaks so persuasively of the array of issues facing today’s corporates that surely it won’t be long before competitors follow suit and carve out their own bespoke practices.
