Under the Companies Acts, a number of general duties required for statutory compliance are enforced upon the Directors and Secretary of a company. We appreciate that complying with statutory obligations is a significant and time-consuming responsibility which many business owners find onerous. Duties range from the maintenance of the Register of Members and Register of Directors and Secretaries, to the filing of various returns to the Registrar of Companies.
Your failure to carry out these duties correctly can result in severe penalties for you as a Director and can even result in your company being struck off. The prosecution of Directors can also lead to disqualification for up to 15 years and removal of the company from the Register.
Outsourcing your company secretarial responsibilities offers a solution to this burden. Our experienced and reliable company secretarial team is updated with current corporate governance legislation in the UK, so you can be safe in the knowledge that this important issue is taken care of.
It leaves you free to focus your efforts on the important part of your role, running and developing your business, safe in the knowledge that all your statutory obligations are being met.
Our comprehensive suite of company secretarial services include:
We are able to provide you with the full range of company secretarial services and can advise on the suitability of each depending on whether your business is a:
Our advisors can assist you through your limited liability company formation. They will take care of all relevant incorporation formalities and provide a company tailor made to your requirements of name and operating powers. Using our electronic company incorporation facility we are able to set up private and public companies within 24 hours.
We are also able to arrange Branch or Place of Business Registration for overseas companies operating in the UK.
All UK companies are legally required to have a registered office for all official communications. We can provide registered office facilities at our address as your company’s registered office and either forward mail to you or deal with it as prior agreed.
This is one of the most important administrative tasks required by the Companies Acts and cannot be done properly without prompt and careful attention to detail and a sound grasp of the legal requirements. Our fully qualified governance professionals can maintain the Statutory Registers of your company using our dedicated software. These include:
We can also maintain your other Statutory Registers required by law, including:
Once a year your company must deliver an annual return in the prescribed form to Companies House as part of the Companies Act requirements. This is a snapshot of information about your Company, its officers and members. We can prepare this statutory document for your approval and arrange its filing with Companies House together with other statutory documents including:
We provide assistance with company secretarial ‘special projects’, often involving very stringent and complicated compliance procedures.
Our company secretarial services team is well accustomed to working alongside other professionals in order to give you the best advice, such as our in-house tax advisers, corporate financiers and our close network of solicitors.
And, importantly, we understand the need to be flexible in the way we operate in order to meet your specific requirements. We prepare all minutes, notices, resolutions, forms and share certificates as appropriate and file documents with Companies House where necessary.
If you’re looking for additional, specialist support we can advise and help you implement all types of corporate transactions, including:
To find out more about the company secretarial services we can provide for your business please contact one of our company secretarial specialists at your nearest location, or if you prefer, complete our contact form and one of our specialists will be in touch.
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