Vivien Davies
Dispute Resolution Partner,
Head of the MENA Group, Member of the Supervisory Board
Governance
What is the main function of the Supervisory Board?
Vivien: The Supervisory Board is an integral part of Fieldfisher's governance system. It ensures the decisions of the Executive Committee, the firm's main management body, are made in a rational and fair manner. The Supervisory Board acts as the ear of the partnership and is, therefore, an important conduit for partners to raise issues with management, which they may feel less able to raise directly.
David: Fieldfisher is a large corporate organisation but at our heart, we want to maintain the feeling of partnership, where each partner has a sense of ownership and the respect of, and fellowship with, other partners. The Supervisory Board seeks to maintain this culture.
How does it operate
in practice?
David: We meet regularly with both the Managing Partner and the wider Executive to discuss developments, plans for the future and any issues of concern. As members of the Supervisory Board are drawn from across the firm, we are able to take soundings from the whole partnership and feed this into management decision making. Our role is to ensure challenge and good governance and that the Executive operates within the framework, financial risk appetite and culture the wider partnership expects, and which has been set out in our Members Agreement.
David Wilkinson
Senior Partner,
Chair of the Supervisory Board
Ramatu Banga
Real Estate Partner,
Member of the Supervisory Board
Fieldfisher's Supervisory Board oversees the firm's Executive Committee on behalf of the partnership. It also acts as a sounding board for management on strategic issues.
Chair of the Supervisory Board
David Wilkinson and Board members Vivien Davies and Ramatu Banga explain the Board's key focus areas and elaborate on its significance in the firm's governance structure.
Supervisory
Board
Fieldfisher
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