Corporate Governance and Compliance

We offer a tailored approach to address the ongoing challenges of corporate governance and compliance. Our managed services are technology-enabled and structured to drive efficiency, risk reduction and cost transparency to your corporate governance and compliance programme.

What EY Law Corporate Governance and Compliance can do for you

As multinational companies expand, their corporate structures grow larger and more complex, making it challenging to ascertain that all of their legal entities comply with local company laws. Growing regulatory demand for corporate structure transparency requires companies to have a firm grip on status and development of group structures. 

Many companies are engaging a single service provider that can provide corporate governance and compliance responsibilities consistently around the globe. That’s where EY Law teams come in.

EY has a truly global Corporate Governance and Compliance practice which is part of EY Law and has made significant investment in technology to support an innovative global service delivery model. Our focus is on driving time and cost efficiencies and greater value by leveraging standardisation, automation and data analytics.

Collaboration with EY teams means benefit from a single point of contact for all your corporate governance and compliance requirements with local specialist support in each of the jurisdictions you operate in, providing a consistent and harmonised service as well as full oversight of your global delivery. We offer clients fixed fee certainty across the service offerings.

We facilitate a strategic approach to routine and transactional compliance and provide our clients with tailored analysis and insights. This helps drive continuous improvement of organisational compliance and governance designed to effectively underpin their business.

Core Client Service Offerings

EY teams provide a range of services which have been developed and refined in response to client needs:

  • Our services are technology-enabled, and using our client portal you can access our services through a single gateway.

    EY technology tools are leveraged by our knowledge and training

    • Global director e-learning program. You can access training via your own learning platform or hosted by EY teams. Key functionality includes ability to track training uptake across your organisation.
    • Corporate knowledge platform. Delve into real-time compliance updates across all your jurisdictions, as well as a full range of company law practical data points.

Global delivery model

EY governance and compliance professionals are present across the globe in over 140 countries to deliver tailored compliance services.

EY's global delivery model incorporates a single point-of-contact for clients as well as local specialists, regional offshore delivery centers and onshore engagement teams. This blend of resources means we are always operating in the right time zone, with the right level of expertise and with the appropriate resource costs.

EY teams can provide cost certainty for clients with a fixed fee for annual compliance as well as ad hoc work. The teams can provide an assessment framework for cost benchmarking so you can review your current spend on compliance and entity maintenance including internal and external spend. This is helping clients who find themselves under increasing cost pressure. After providing a cost analysis, EY teams can assist clients to implement a sustainable cost reduction program.

The risk-based approach means that we drive predictability and risk reduction across the compliance function.

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Our latest thinking

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The Companies Registration Office (“CRO”) in Ireland has indicated that from 11 June 2023, it will require directors to provide their Irish PPS numbers (PPSN) when making certain filings with the CRO.

Gavin Clare

    Vivienne Feaheny

    Head of Corporate Governance and Compliance, EY Law Ireland
    A Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Governance.
    Dublin, IRL

    Gavin Clare

    Senior Manager, Corporate Governance and Compliance, EY Law Ireland
    Governance focused advisor with an interest in team dynamics. Family man. Amateur fighter with Medieval Armoured Combat Ireland. Enjoys reading.
    Dublin, IRL

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