Corporate Governance White Paper

The challenges for those engaged in corporate governance have continued since early 2009, when Minter Ellison Rudd Watts re-published its White Paper on Corporate Governance in New Zealand. Businesses have continued to have to operate in difficult and turbulent conditions.

Regulators have responded to investor and public sentiment and have taken enforcement action against directors of entities that raised money from the public. Many of those proceedings have resulted in judgments and sanctions against the directors of those public issuer entities, including jail terms. Civil proceedings are now following in several instances. The cases have heightened directors' awareness of their responsibilities and potential personal liability ... READ MORE

Released by Minter Ellison Rudd Watts - Updated 2012