As a non-executive director, board member and chair, it is important to strive for best practice and continue your learning of the role you are in.

The report of the select committees on the collapse of Carillion, released on 16th May has raised a number of important issues, ranging from the company’s corporate culture; its internal control environment; the competence and complacency of its auditors and advisors; the duties of the non-executive directors, chairman and senior executives who were members of the board of directors; the role of the Financial Reporting Council and The Pensions Regulator.

This is an insightful evening for any non-exec keen to understand the factors that led to the collapse of Carillion and keen to be engaged with current board level thoughts, discussions and best practices.

Relevant to non-executive, executive board members; chairs or executives operating at or near board level from a variety of sectors and types of organisation, we look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday 27th November.

Guest Speakers:

Peter Kyle MP

Peter was re-elected as MP for Hove and Portslade in June 2017. In Parliament, he sits on the influential Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, and he chairs the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Southern Rail, and on Further Education and Lifelong Learning. Peter holds a PhD in community economic development from Sussex University, and in his earlier career he worked as an aid worker in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He then moved on to work as a policy maker at the Cabinet Office, focusing on social exclusion. He has lived in Hove for over 20 years.

Peter Kyle contributed to the Carillion Joint Enquiry by the UK government's BEIS, and Work and Pensions Committees.

Kate Holton, Deputy UK Bureau Chief and Chief Companies Correspondent, Thomson Reuters

Kate has been a Reuters journalist in Britain since 2001, covering everything from sport to court cases, elections and the Brexit referendum. Kate has been the UK Chief Companies Correspondent since 2012 and has covered a range of sectors and events, including the collapse of Carillion and the wider fallout for the outsourcing and construction industry.

Giles Boothman, Partner at Ashurst - Finance, Funds & Restructuring - RSSG

Giles is the global head of Ashurst's restructuring and special situations team and is based in London. Over the last 20 years he has developed expertise in acting for distressed companies and for lenders and stakeholders to distressed businesses in almost every industrial sector and has a strong track record of working both on large, complex domestic transactions as well as institutional situations. A number of these situations have involved cross border challenges.

He is particularly experienced in acting on complex debt control situations both for distressed funds and debtors. He has also acted on multiple loan portfolio acquisitions for distressed funds. Chambers UK praise his work saying: Giles Boothman is highly regarded for his work with debtors in complex cross-border restructurings, while also fielding expertise in representing UK-based funds in loan-to-own distressed acquisitions. Clients praise him as "a real standout lawyer in his field," noting that "he is technically outstanding and gives crystal-clear restructuring advice."

Lucinda Case, Managing Director, Legal, Thomson Reuters

Lucinda is Managing Director of the UK & Europe Legal business of Thomson Reuters. The business provides content and technology products to the legal services industry. She has been with Thomson Reuters since 2013 when the business she was working for in New York (Practical Law) was acquired by Thomson Reuters. Prior to this Lucinda worked as a solicitor in the City of London with a brief stint at UBS as an investment banker.

Lucinda is an advocate of greater diversity in the senior ranks of law firms and corporations and has led the launch of the Thomson Reuters UK Transforming Women’s Leadership in Law programme aimed at retaining more women in the legal services industry and redressing a lack of gender balance at leadership levels. She is also on the Council of the Royal Albert Hall and the Investment Committee of the Social Business Trust on behalf of Thomson Reuters who are one of the corporate partners of SBT providing support to their network of social enterprises.

Further speaker details to follow.

To whom this event is intended:

Our events are designed for, and will most benefit, non-executive directors, board members, business leaders and executives operating at or near board level. Your board level peers are often the first to know of upcoming roles within the organisations they work for – come and meet them as making the most of engaging at our events is an important aspect of developing your board level career.

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FAQs:

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How many attendees?

Our events are designed for 50 to 70 attendees.

What will be the format of the evening?

Welcome drinks will be provided at 6:45pm, with the panel discussion commencing at 19:15. Following this there will be opportunity for Q&A and networking with your board level peers.

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