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Part 2 - Peter Butler, Governance for Owners on the Stewardship Code and the role of the Chairman.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Governance, Non-executive director, Stewardship Code | Tags: risk, FT, FTSE 350, non-executive director, Stewardship Code, Peter Butler, corporate governance review

Part 2 of our interview with Peter Butler, Chief Executive and Founding Partner, Governance for Owners at the recent Financial Times Non Executive Directors’ Club on The FTSE 350 Corporate Governance Review Highlights.

Peter gave us his thoughts on the impact of the proposed Stewardship Code and the role of the Chairman.

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Part 1 - Peter Butler, Governance for Owners on the Stewardship Code and the role of the Chairman.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Governance, Non-executive director, Stewardship Code | Tags: risk, FT, FTSE 350, non-executive director, Stewardship Code, Peter Butler, corporate governance review

Part 1 of our interview with Peter Butler, Chief Executive and Founding Partner, Governance for Owners at the recent Financial Times Non Executive Directors’ Club on The FTSE 350 Corporate Governance Review Highlights.

Peter gave us his thoughts on the impact of the proposed Stewardship Code and the role of the Chairman.

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84% of Private Equity backers of UK ICT firms plan to make new technology aquisitions in 2010

Friday, February 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
| Tags: Grant Thornton, technology, Wendy Hart, investors, Simon Davies, Himanshu Raja, ICT, cloud computing, Ash Hussain, Martin Rowland, Axial Systems, Corporate Finance, Niki Dixon, SaaS, LDC, BT Design, Software as a Service, private equity,, Information and Communication Technologies,

UK firms specialised in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) continue to attract private equity investors, according to our recent Continue Reading

Michelle Edkins, Barclays Global Investors on the Walker Review and changes to the Combined Code

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Governance, Non-executive director | Tags: governance, FT, Corporate Governance, Simon Lowe, FTSE 350, Corporate Governance Review, Michelle Edkins, Financial Times, Barclays Global Investors

Interview with Michelle Edkins Managing Director, Head of Corporate Governance, Europe at Barclays Global Investors, at the launch event of the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors’ Club on 10 November 2009. 

Simon Lowe, partner and author of the FTSE 350 Corporate Governance Review, was able to capture some pearls of wisdom on film, by speaking to Michelle Edkins about investor engagement and why she advises against talking about ‘corporate governance’

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Governance: from compliance exercise to embedded in the business - David Jackson, BP plc

Thursday, December 03, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Governance | Tags: governance, FT, compliance, Corporate Governance, Simon Lowe, David Jackson, BP, Financial Times, Non-executive director

Interview with David Jackson, Company Secretary BP plc, at the launch event of the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors’ Club on 10th November 2009. 

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