Corporate Governance and Company Secretarial Services

Our corporate governance service helps businesses in the UK and internationally stay aligned with best practices and meet their legal and regulatory obligations.

Our advice is specific to each client’s requirements, ensuring that their governance frameworks support both compliance and long-term success.

Our lawyers are actively involved in both developing policy and promoting best practices. Several of our lawyers played a key role in the recent revisions to the Quoted Companies Alliance Corporate Governance Code for small and mid-sized quoted companies.

Our services include:

Incorporation

• Expert advice and assistance with incorporating a company or LLP
• Advice on the appropriate structure of the company or LLP
• Same-day incorporation

Annual compliance

• Support and advice from the Company Secretarial Services team
• Advice on corporate governance best practices
• Preparing the confirmation statement and maintaining the statutory registers
• Filing any changes to share capital, changes of members/directors, and other statutory requirements with Companies House
• Provision of a professional company secretary

Address and mail services

• Provision of a registered office, notification of post and providing reminders for key filing dates

Additional services

• Dissolution or striking off a company from the Companies Register or reinstatement to the register
• Provision of a service address for directors
• Drafting of board minutes and resolutions
• UK establishment registrations and closures for overseas companies
• Re-registration of companies
• Changes to constitutions and members’ agreements