Blackstone Partners

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE UNIT

Corporate Governance, Executive fraud, Internal investigations, Financial crimes.

Blackstone Partners have extensive experience in Corporate Governance. We provide guidance to business leaders on how to conduct their business in an atmosphere of foresight instead of fear.

We provide advice on: -
• Matters of corporate governance and have facilities to provide total company secretaryship for Nigerian companies.
• Investigative resources, that audit current procedures against new Legislative/ regulatory standards and industry best practices
• We have experience on Nigerian white-collar crimes and advance free fraud, we locate, arrange for prosecution and recover victims' money from Fraudsters particularly those arising from advance free fraud otherwise known as 419 crime in Nigeria . We have the ability to provide effective representation for our clients in all dealings with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Securities Exchange Commission and other law enforcement agencies in Nigeria .

We continuously review new issues in Nigerian Corporate Governance and advice our clients appropriately on: -
• Compliance assessment and providing new insight into governance structure.
• Board composition, relationship with management and external auditors.
• Special investigations on accounting issues, and violations of Nigerian law.
• Enforcement proceedings by regulatory agencies.
• Nigerian Senate and House of Representative investigations.
• Executive compensation, including strategy, plan, design, compliance issues.
• Insolvency of Companies, responsibilities of officers and directors and other regulatory issues.
• Protection of whistleblower and informants.