Corporate advisory and compliance services

Apart from holding the position of company secretaries, directors nominees for clientele ranging from family owned businesses to large scale investment companies, our skilled experts can manage your company’s corporate compliance and advisory matters. Among other things the department also provides the following services:

• company formation and registration of business and trading names
• offshore company formation
• closure of companies ie struck off
• registration of branch of a foreign company
• guidance on objects and clauses of the Memorandum & Articles of Association
• corporate advice on capitalisation, restructuring, mergers, and amalgamations
• consultancy in respect of changes in share capital, directors, shareholders and name of the company
• custody and administration of the use of the company seal
• corporate and statutory due-diligence reviews
• alteration of companies capital - increase/reduction of share capital and consolidation/division/cancellation and conversion of shares
• consultancy on winding up and striking off companies
• maintaining a reservoir of shelf companies (ready made companies)
• review of the Directors' Report to the audited accounts
• advice and administration of dividend payments
• preparation of resolutions for ratification by the board, shareholders etc
• preparation of the notice and proxies for the Annual General Meeting, attendance sheet, drafting minutes and distribution to the shareholders
• processing share transfers and allotments and issue of share certificates including advice on various implications such as stump duty
• ensuring statutory compliance, ie completion and filing the Annual Return with the Registrar of Companies etc
• liaising with banks and lawyers on raising of finance, borrowing, conveyance and transfer of properties
• use of office premises as registered office of various companies.