Global ID Exchange · Live mandates
Board seats, interim leadership and advisory — one board.
A director building an international portfolio typically holds a statutory seat in one market, takes an interim mandate in another, and advises in a third. Splitting those across three products would hide two-thirds of the options, so they sit here together.
Statutory board seat
21A seat on a statutory board — independent, non-executive or supervisory — with the appointment formalities and the personal duties that go with it.
Interim leadership
6An executive engagement for a defined window: a CFO through a refinancing, a COO through an integration, a CEO alongside a founder. The fastest route onto a foreign board, because it puts you inside the market on the record.
Advisory & consulting
5A scoped advisory engagement — board effectiveness, governance design, shareholder engagement, controls readiness. No office of director, no appointment formalities, no statutory liability.
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29 mandates
Outside Director — Audit Committee, Separate Election
South Korea·Semiconductors & Electronics
KOSPI-listed electronics group above the KRW 2 trillion asset threshold
An outside director reaches the six-year cap under the Enforcement Decree, and the seat falling vacant is the separately elected audit-committee seat — where the largest shareholder's voting power is restricted, so the appointment turns on institutional support rather than on the founding family.
Board Member — Technology & Capital Allocation
Sweden·Industrial & Precision Manufacturing
Nasdaq Stockholm large-cap industrial group
The nomination committee — constituted by the four largest owners — has identified capital allocation and digital operating models as the board's two thinnest areas, and is preparing its proposal for the annual general meeting.
Administrateur indépendant — Audit Committee
France·Industrial Manufacturing
SBF 120-listed industrial group
Two directors reach the AFEP-MEDEF twelve-year independence limit in the same year, and the 40% gender arithmetic under the Copé-Zimmermann law constrains the order in which they can be replaced — an appointment that breaches it is void.
Independent Director — Novo Mercado Migration
Brazil·Agribusiness & Food
B3-listed agribusiness group migrating to Novo Mercado
The company is migrating to Novo Mercado and must assemble a board with at least two independent directors or twenty per cent, whichever is greater, separate the chair and chief executive, and stand up an audit committee — on the timetable the migration sets.
Independent Director — Minority Slate
Italy·Banking & Financial Services
FTSE MIB-listed banking group
The institutional-investor slate is being assembled ahead of the board's renewal. Article 147-ter of the TUF guarantees at least one seat to the minority list, and the slate needs a candidate with prudential regulatory standing rather than a name known to the controlling shareholders.
External Director — Accounting & Financial Expertise
Israel·Cyber Security & Software
TASE-listed cyber-security company, not relying on dual-listing relief
An external director's second three-year term ends at the next general meeting. The Companies Law requires at least one external director with accounting and financial expertise, and that director must staff and may chair the audit committee.
Advisory — Internal Controls Readiness for Provision 29
United Kingdom·Financial Services
UK-listed specialist financial services group
The board must make its first declaration on the effectiveness of material controls for the financial year beginning in 2026, and does not yet have an assurance map that would support it.
Non-Executive Director — Audit Committee Chair Designate
United Kingdom·Consumer & Retail
FTSE 250 consumer group
Provision 29 of the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 requires a board declaration on the effectiveness of material controls — including operational and compliance controls — for financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2026. The current committee is strong on financial reporting and thin on operational control environments.
Interim Chief Executive Officer — Scale-up
United Arab Emirates·Technology & Digital Platforms
Series B logistics-technology startup, DIFC domiciled
The founder is stepping back from day-to-day leadership to focus on product and fundraising. Investors want an operating CEO in place for the twelve months to the next round, with the founder remaining on the board.
Independent Director — Audit Committee Financial Expert
United States·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Nasdaq-listed mid-cap medical technology company
The company must disclose whether its audit committee includes an audit committee financial expert under SOX s.407, and the committee must be entirely independent under SEC Rule 10A-3. International expansion has also outrun the board's experience of the markets it now sells into.
Board Advisory — Overseas Shareholder Engagement
Japan·Industrial & Precision Manufacturing
TSE Prime Market issuer facing engaged overseas shareholders
The board has received a substantive letter from an overseas institutional shareholder on capital efficiency and board composition, and has no director who has been on the other side of that conversation.
Independent Non-Executive Director — Risk & Technology
Hong Kong SAR·Technology & Digital Platforms
HKEX Main Board-listed platform business with mainland operations
The board's published skills matrix names cyber-security and data governance as gaps, and two long-serving INEDs fall out of independence during the nine-year transition period.
Supervisory Board Member — Technology & Cyber Risk
Netherlands·Payments & Financial Technology
Euronext Amsterdam-listed payments business
A supervisory board member reaches the twelve-year ceiling under the Dutch Corporate Governance Code, and the board's gender composition means the replacement must maintain the statutory one-third balance — an appointment that fails it is void.
Independent Director — Audit Committee Chair
Singapore·Banking & Financial Services
SGX Mainboard-listed regional financial services group
The incumbent audit chair reaches nine years within the next reporting cycle and must be re-designated non-independent under SGX Rule 210(5)(d)(iv). The board loses both its chair and part of its one-third independence arithmetic in the same meeting.
Advisory — Board Skills Matrix and INED Succession
Hong Kong SAR·Property & Real Estate
HKEX-listed property group with long-tenured INEDs
Three INEDs are inside the nine-year transition window, and the issuer must publish a board skills matrix under the Corporate Governance Code amendments that took effect on 1 July 2025.
Independent Director — Audit Committee
Canada·Mining & Metals
TSX-listed mining group, incorporated in British Columbia
Every member of the audit committee must be independent and financially literate under NI 52-110, and the group's assets sit in jurisdictions no current director has governed in.
Independent Director — Newly Listed Public Joint Stock Company
United Arab Emirates·Logistics & Infrastructure
Recently listed UAE logistics and infrastructure group
A first independent board must be assembled to satisfy the SCA governance guide from the point of listing: at least one-third independent, a majority non-executive, a non-executive chairman and female representation on the board.
Interim Regional Chief Operating Officer — ASEAN
Singapore·Consumer & Retail
European consumer group's ASEAN regional headquarters
The regional COO has departed at the point the group is consolidating four country operations into one regional operating model. Momentum on the integration cannot be paused for a permanent search.
Supervisory Board Member — Audit Committee (Auditing Expertise)
Germany·Industrial Manufacturing
Frankfurt-listed industrial group, parity co-determined
The audit committee must satisfy AktG § 100(5) with one member holding accounting expertise and another holding auditing expertise. The board holds the first and not the second, and the supervisory board's gender arithmetic under § 96(2) constrains who the next appointment can be.
Non-Executive Director — Energy Transition
Australia·Energy & Utilities
ASX 200 energy and utilities business
The board is majority independent as the ASX Principles recommend, but has no director who has governed a large-scale generation or grid transition in another market. Two directors approach the ten-year point at which Box 2.3 requires independence to be reassessed.
Governance Advisory — Board Formation for a Pre-IPO Group
Saudi Arabia·Healthcare & Logistics
Saudi family group preparing for a Tadawul listing
A family group intends to list and must move from family governance to a CMA-compliant board within the next two board cycles, including the independence and committee requirements it has never operated under.
Outside Director — Capital Allocation & Global Markets
Japan·Industrial & Precision Manufacturing
TSE Prime Market industrial group with majority overseas revenue
The company is responding to the Tokyo Stock Exchange's cost-of-capital initiative and needs a director who has personally executed portfolio disposals and capital-return decisions. The Corporate Governance Code asks Prime Market boards for at least one-third independent directors.
Interim Chief Risk Officer
Ireland·Insurance & Reinsurance
Irish-authorised insurance undertaking within an international group
The pre-approval controlled function holder has resigned. The firm needs an interim in the seat while a permanent appointment goes through Central Bank pre-approval, which takes months.
Advisory — Board Effectiveness and Composition Review
Netherlands·Energy & Chemicals
Euronext-listed chemicals group
Two supervisory board members approach the twelve-year ceiling and the board's statutory gender balance constrains the sequence of replacements. The chair wants an external effectiveness review before the nomination process begins.
Independent Non-Executive Director — UCITS Management Company
Ireland·Funds & Asset Management
Irish-authorised management company of a European asset manager
The board needs an independent non-executive director with genuine availability. The Central Bank assesses aggregate time commitment across a candidate's whole portfolio, and the firm's existing INEDs are at capacity.
Board Member — Compensation Committee
Switzerland·Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
SIX-listed life sciences company
Members of the compensation committee are elected individually by the general meeting under CO Art. 733, and shareholders vote bindingly on aggregate compensation. The company needs a member who can defend its pay architecture to international investors annually.
Independent Director — Tourism & Hospitality Platform
Saudi Arabia·Tourism, Hospitality & Entertainment
Saudi entity within a national transformation programme
A new-sector entity is constituting a board that must satisfy the CMA requirement of at least two independent directors or one-third of the board, and needs governance experience of hospitality assets at a scale the domestic market has not previously built.
Independent Non-Executive Director — Audit Committee
South Africa·Telecommunications & Technology
JSE-listed telecommunications group with pan-African operations
The audit committee requires at least three independent non-executive directors under Companies Act s.94 and the JSE Listings Requirements, and the group's expansion into three further African markets has outrun the board's experience of them.
Independent Non-Executive Director — Sustainability & Supply Chain
Malaysia·Plantations & Agribusiness
Bursa Main Market-listed agribusiness group
Two independent directors reach the twelve-year cumulative cap in the Listing Requirements within the same year, and the board is below the MCCG 2021 expectation of 30% women directors for a large company.
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