Is Your Business Built to Last

Vicky Simpson, COO of Clerion Consultants, will walk us through five deceptively simple questions that expose the governance gaps sitting inside even well run owner managed businesses:

• what happens to the shares if a co-owner dies,
• who holds legal authority if they can’t act,
• will the contracts and passwords survive a departure, and
• will the business would stand up to a buyer’s due diligence tomorrow?

Using the framework behind Clerion’s Strategic Risk & Legal Readiness Diagnostic, built across four pillars (Structure, Relationships, Assets, Vision), Vicky will explore how compliance teams can use the framework to identify and resolve compliance gaps before they have an impact for both the firm and it’s customers.

Clerion works through a panel of trusted law firms, surfacing legal and structural risk early so those firms receive better instructed, better prepared clients rather than picking up problems too late. For anyone in compliance thinking about how their firm supports its business clients beyond the transaction in front of them, this is a practical look at what that partnership can look like, and how to get involved as a panel firm.