Corporate governance, legal & compliance
Governance, contracts, compliance & enterprise risk
Company structures, boards, shareholder rights, contract language, regulatory duties, privacy, controls and audit.
482 entries
Company forms & group structures
47 entries- Affiliate
- Associate company
- Beneficial owner
- Benefit corporation
- Branch
- C corporation
- Conglomerate
- Cooperative
- Corporate domicile
- Corporate group
- Corporate veil
- Corporation
- Dormant company
- General partnership
- Holding company
- Joint venture
- Jurisdiction of incorporation
- Legal entity
- Limited liability
- Limited liability company
- Limited liability partnership
- Limited partnership
- Listed company
- Management company
- NewCo
- Nonprofit organisation
- Operating company
- Parent company
- Partnership
- Permanent establishment
- Piercing the corporate veil
- Principal place of business
- Private company
- PropCo
- Public company
- Registered office
- S corporation
- Separate legal personality
- Shell company
- Sister company
- Social enterprise
- Sole proprietorship
- Special purpose vehicle
- Subsidiary
- Ultimate beneficial owner
- Unlisted company
- Wholly owned subsidiary
Boards, directors & committees
43 entries- Audit committee
- Board chair
- Board charter
- Board composition
- Board evaluation
- Board independence
- Board observer
- Board of directors
- Board seat
- Board succession planning
- Business judgement rule
- Committee charter
- Company secretary
- Conflict of interest
- Corporate governance
- Corporate secretary
- Director
- Director education
- Director indemnification
- Director induction
- Director tenure
- Directors and officers insurance
- Diversity policy
- Duty of care
- Duty of loyalty
- Duty to avoid conflicts
- ESG committee
- Executive director
- Fiduciary duty
- Independent director
- Lead independent director
- Management oversight
- Nomination committee
- Non-executive director
- Overboarding
- Recusal
- Related-party transaction
- Remuneration committee
- Risk committee
- Skills matrix
- Special committee
- Tone at the top
- Vice chair
Resolutions, meetings & authority
37 entries- Abstention
- Adjournment
- Agenda
- Annual general meeting
- Authority matrix
- Board calendar
- Board meeting
- Board minutes
- Board resolution
- Casting vote
- Chair's ruling
- Circular resolution
- Delegation of authority
- Executive session
- Extraordinary general meeting
- In camera session
- Matter arising
- Meeting cadence
- Minute book
- Motion
- Notice of meeting
- Ordinary resolution
- Point of order
- Power of attorney
- Proxy
- Quorum
- Ratification
- Reserved matter
- Resolution by circulation
- Seconding
- Shareholder resolution
- Signing authority
- Special meeting
- Special resolution
- Unanimous written consent
- Vote
- Written consent
Shares, shareholders & voting
40 entries- Articles of association
- Beneficial holder
- Beneficial ownership threshold
- Bylaws
- Certificate of incorporation
- Common stock
- Consent right
- Derivative action
- Dividend right
- Drag-along right
- Dual-class structure
- Ex-dividend date
- Information right
- Inspection right
- Issued shares
- Minority protection
- Non-voting shares
- One share, one vote
- Oppression remedy
- Ordinary shares
- Outstanding shares
- Pre-emption right
- Preferred shares
- Protective provision
- Proxy contest
- Proxy voting
- Record date
- Registered holder
- Right of first offer
- Right of first refusal
- Share
- Share register
- Shareholder
- Shareholder activism
- Shareholders' agreement
- Super-voting shares
- Tag-along right
- Tender offer
- Treasury shares
- Voting right
Core contract language
64 entries- Amendment
- Arbitration
- Audit right
- Automatic renewal
- Best endeavours
- Commencement date
- Commercially reasonable efforts
- Compliance with laws
- Condition precedent
- Condition subsequent
- Confidentiality clause
- Consequential damages
- Contract
- Counterpart
- Counterparty
- Covenant
- Cure period
- Defined term
- Direct damages
- Dispute-resolution clause
- Effective date
- Electronic signature
- Entire agreement
- Escalation clause
- Exclusion of liability
- Expiry
- Force majeure
- Good faith
- Governing law
- Indirect damages
- Jurisdiction clause
- Liability cap
- Limitation of liability
- Liquidated damages
- Material adverse change
- Material breach
- Mediation
- Non-compete
- Non-solicitation
- Notice period
- Notices clause
- Novation
- Operative provision
- Order of precedence
- Party
- Penalty clause
- Reasonable endeavours
- Recitals
- Records-retention clause
- Renewal
- Representation
- Severability
- Subcontracting
- Survival
- Term
- Termination
- Termination for cause
- Termination for convenience
- Third-party beneficiary
- Time is of the essence
- Undertaking
- Variation
- Venue
- Waiver
Commercial agreements & supporting documents
46 entries- Acceptable-use policy
- Acceptance certificate
- Agency agreement
- Annex
- Call-off contract
- Certificate of insurance
- Change order
- Change request
- Completion certificate
- Consulting agreement
- Deed
- Distribution agreement
- Employment agreement
- End-user licence agreement
- Escrow agreement
- Estimate
- Framework agreement
- Guarantee agreement
- Heads of terms
- Independent-contractor agreement
- Intellectual-property assignment
- Lease
- Letter of intent
- Licence agreement
- Maintenance agreement
- Manufacturing agreement
- Master services agreement
- Memorandum of understanding
- Non-disclosure agreement
- Order form
- Original-equipment-manufacturer agreement
- Privacy policy
- Purchase requisition
- Referral agreement
- Reseller agreement
- Rider
- Schedule
- Service agreement
- Service-level agreement
- Side letter
- Supply agreement
- Support agreement
- Term sheet
- Terms of service
- Warranty certificate
- Work order
Privacy, data protection & cybersecurity compliance
49 entries- Adequacy decision
- Anonymisation
- Automated decision-making
- Biometric data
- Breach notification
- Consent
- Consent-management platform
- Cookie
- Cross-border data transfer
- Data breach
- Data controller
- Data localisation
- Data mapping
- Data processor
- Data-protection impact assessment
- Data-protection officer
- Data residency
- Data-retention schedule
- Data subject
- Data-subject request
- De-identification
- Do not sell or share
- First-party cookie
- Joint controller
- Lawful basis
- Legitimate interests
- Opt-in
- Personal data
- Privacy by default
- Privacy by design
- Privacy notice
- Processing
- Profiling
- Pseudonymisation
- Record of processing activities
- Right of access
- Right to erasure
- Right to object
- Right to portability
- Right to rectification
- Right to restriction
- Security incident
- Sensitive personal data
- Special-category data
- Standard contractual clauses
- Storage limitation
- Subprocessor
- Third-party cookie
- Vendor privacy risk
Regulatory, ethics & conduct compliance
52 entries- Attestation
- Audit trail
- Beneficial-ownership verification
- Bid rigging
- Bribery
- Cartel
- Cease-and-desist order
- Certification
- Chief compliance officer
- Code of conduct
- Competition law
- Compliance
- Compliance monitoring
- Compliance officer
- Compliance programme
- Compliance testing
- Compliance training
- Consent decree
- Corruption
- Counter-terrorist financing
- Customer due diligence
- Dawn raid
- Disciplinary action
- Enhanced due diligence
- Ethics hotline
- Export control
- Facilitation payment
- Gifts and hospitality
- Guideline
- Internal investigation
- Know your customer
- Licence
- Market allocation
- Non-compliance
- Permit
- Policy
- Politically exposed person
- Price fixing
- Recordkeeping requirement
- Registration
- Regulator
- Regulatory reporting
- Remediation
- Retaliation
- Sanctions screening
- Source of funds
- Standard
- Suspicious-activity report
- Third-party due diligence
- Third-party risk management
- Whistleblower
- Whistleblowing
Enterprise risk & controls
57 entries- Compensating control
- Concentration risk
- Control
- Control deficiency
- Control design
- Control owner
- Corrective control
- Credit risk
- Cyber risk
- Detective control
- Emerging risk
- Enterprise risk management
- Financial risk
- First line
- Geopolitical risk
- Impact
- Incident
- Inherent risk
- Issue
- Key control
- Key risk indicator
- Legal risk
- Likelihood
- Liquidity risk
- Loss event
- Market risk
- Material weakness
- Operating effectiveness
- Operational risk
- Preventive control
- Regulatory risk
- Remediation plan
- Reputational risk
- Residual risk
- Risk
- Risk acceptance
- Risk appetite
- Risk assessment
- Risk avoidance
- Risk capacity
- Risk heat map
- Risk mitigation
- Risk profile
- Risk rating
- Risk register
- Risk threshold
- Risk tolerance
- Risk transfer
- Risk treatment plan
- Root cause
- Scenario analysis
- Second line
- Significant deficiency
- Strategic risk
- Third line
- Third-party risk
- Three lines model
Audit, assurance & evidence
47 entries- Adverse opinion
- Agreed-upon procedures
- Analytical procedures
- Attestation engagement
- Audit
- Audit evidence
- Audit exception
- Audit finding
- Audit materiality
- Audit opinion
- Audit plan
- Audit programme
- Audit sampling
- Audit scope
- Auditor independence
- Compliance audit
- Control testing
- Disclaimer of opinion
- Emphasis-of-matter paragraph
- Evidence appropriateness
- Evidence sufficiency
- External audit
- External confirmation
- Financial-statement audit
- Information-technology audit
- Inquiry
- Internal audit
- Key audit matter
- Management letter
- Management representation letter
- No assurance
- Observation
- Operational audit
- Professional scepticism
- Qualified opinion
- Reasonable assurance
- Recalculation
- Remediation validation
- Reperformance
- Review engagement
- Statutory audit
- Substantive testing
- Test of design
- Test of operating effectiveness
- Unmodified opinion
- Walkthrough
- Working papers