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That covers the register of members, the register of directors and the register of persons with significant control, the annual Confirmation Statement, share allotments and transfers, board minutes, written resolutions and AGM administration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Company secretarial work is the unglamorous backbone of corporate governance. Keep the statutory registers current. File the Confirmation Statement on time. Document share issues correctly. Draft board minutes and shareholder resolutions. Update the PSC register when ownership shifts. It rarely makes headlines, but missed filings carry penalties, and poorly-documented corporate actions create real legal exposure during due diligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">For UK Ltds, LLPs and CICs we provide a complete outsourced company secretarial function. We maintain your registers, file your Confirmation Statement, draft minutes for board meetings, document share allotments and transfers, update the PSC register, and handle the administrative side of AGMs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">For US, UAE, Canadian and Australian entities, the equivalent role exists with different mechanics: registered agent services, share-register maintenance, annual returns to ASIC, freezone-specific reporting. We coordinate the local agent and handle the substantive documentation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">For VC-backed companies and growth-stage businesses, well-kept corporate records reduce due-diligence friction enormously. Buyers and investors expect clean statutory books, and finding a mess in DD damages valuation. We keep yours pristine, year after year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">The filing calendar for a UK limited company is short and unforgiving. A \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Ffile-your-confirmation-statement-with-companies-house\">Confirmation Statement\u003C\u002Fa> must be delivered at least once every 12 months, within 14 days of the end of the review period, even in a year where nothing changed. Statutory accounts are due at \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Forganisations\u002Fcompanies-house\">Companies House\u003C\u002Fa> nine months after the accounting reference date, with a longer window for a first set. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fannual-accounts\">Late accounts penalties\u003C\u002Fa> start at £150 and reach £1,500 once you are more than six months past, and they double if the previous year was also late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Registers are the part that gets neglected, and the part that hurts later. Under the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.legislation.gov.uk\u002Fukpga\u002F2006\u002F46\u002Fcontents\">Companies Act 2006\u003C\u002Fa> the company itself, not the registry, is the keeper of its register of members. A change to the persons with significant control has to be entered in the register within 14 days and notified to Companies House within a further 14. Missing a Confirmation Statement is an offence for the directors and can put the company on the strike-off list, which in practice means a frozen bank account before anyone reads the letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">What goes wrong, in order. A founder issues shares to an adviser by sending an email and a spreadsheet. No board minute, no SH01 within a month, no entry in the register of members. Two years later a lead investor asks for the cap table and the statutory books, the two do not agree, and the fix is a rectification exercise plus a warranty disclosure at exactly the moment you have least leverage. For \u003Ca href=\"\u002Findustries\u002Fstartups\">VC-backed startups\u003C\u002Fa> this is among the most common diligence findings, and it is entirely preventable at the point the share is issued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n        \u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">A worked example of one year of retainer scope for a seed-stage UK company: one Confirmation Statement, four board meetings minuted, two share allotments with the associated SH01 filings, one option grant round entered on the register, one director appointment and one registered office change. 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Retainer fees are listed on the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fpricing\">fixed-fee pricing\u003C\u002Fa> page, and the scope is defined in \u003Ca href=\"\u002Flegal\u002Fterms\">our standard engagement terms\u003C\u002Fa>. Secretarial work is rarely bought alone, and the services it usually runs alongside are listed in our \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\">list of accounting and bookkeeping services\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>","grid","blocks.section-head",{"id":359,"eyebrow":360,"heading":361,"body":362,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14307,"What you get","A complete company-secretary scope.","Annual, ad-hoc and transaction-related corporate work.",{"id":364,"heading":49,"intro":49,"items":365,"__component":374},2951,[366,367,368,369,370,371,372,373],"Statutory registersRegister of members, directors, secretaries, persons of significant control, and charges maintained. Updated within statutory timelines.","Confirmation Statement filingAnnual filing to Companies House within statutory window. Updates to share capital, PSC and registered office handled within the same return.","Board minutes & resolutionsMinutes drafted for board meetings. Resolutions documented for written-resolution decisions. Properly archived for audit trail.","Share allotments & transfersNew share issues, allotments, transfers and buybacks documented correctly. SH01 \u002F SH03 filed at Companies House. Stamp duty handled where applicable.","Persons of Significant Control registerPSC register maintained. Changes filed within statutory 14-day window. PSC02 \u002F PSC04 \u002F PSC07 forms handled.","Annual General MeetingsAGM notices issued, agendas drafted, minutes recorded, resolutions archived. Where AGMs are not required (most private companies), written-resolution processes documented.","Registered office addressUse of our registered office address (UK Ltds) where you don't have a UK trading address. Mail-forwarding to your operational address.","Transaction supportInvestment rounds, share-option grants, restructurings, M&A: all supported with the proper documentation in real time, not reconstructed after.","blocks.deliverables",{"id":376,"eyebrow":377,"heading":378,"body":379,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14308,"The statutory clock","What each corporate event starts, and how long you have","Most of these clocks run from the event rather than from the year end, and the entry in the company's own register is usually the shorter of the two. 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Worth every penny of the retainer.","Founder · D2C beauty brand","London","blocks.testimonial",{"id":458,"heading":459,"items":460,"__component":489},1877,"Common questions about company secretarial work.",[461,465,469,473,477,481,485],{"id":462,"question":463,"answer":464},11823,"Is a company secretary required for a UK Ltd?","Companies Act 2006 removed the requirement for private companies to appoint a formal company secretary. The role still exists, though, the work still needs doing, and the records still need keeping. We provide the function without taking the title, keeping you fully compliant.",{"id":466,"question":467,"answer":468},11824,"What's the penalty for missing the Confirmation Statement?","£150 for late filing of accounts (rising to £1,500 for over six months late). Late Confirmation Statements can result in the company being struck off the register, which is reversible but expensive and disruptive.",{"id":470,"question":471,"answer":472},11825,"Can you act as our registered office address?","For UK Ltd clients, we can provide a registered office address in the UK and forward mail to your operational address. It is a common arrangement for clients without a UK trading address.",{"id":474,"question":475,"answer":476},11826,"Do you handle option grants and EMI schemes?","Yes. Share option scheme administration is within scope on the Professional and Enterprise tiers, or as a transaction-priced engagement. We coordinate with your lawyers on the scheme rules and handle the share-register and HMRC reporting (EMI annual returns).",{"id":478,"question":479,"answer":480},11827,"What about US Delaware C-Corps?","For Delaware C-Corps we coordinate with your registered agent (Stripe Atlas, Clerky or independent) and handle the share-register, board minutes, stockholder consents and Section 83(b) elections. The annual franchise tax filing is part of our scope.",{"id":482,"question":483,"answer":484},11828,"What has to be in the statutory registers?","For a UK company: the register of members, the register of directors, the register of directors' residential addresses, the register of secretaries where one is appointed, and the register of people with significant control. Charges are recorded at Companies House rather than in a company register. The books have to be available for inspection, so they need to exist in a form someone can actually be shown.",{"id":486,"question":487,"answer":488},11829,"How quickly does a share allotment have to be filed?","The return of allotment, form SH01, goes to Companies House within one month of the shares being allotted, and the register of members is updated at the same time. The board resolution authorising the allotment is dated before the issue, not written up afterwards, which is the detail that gets missed when a round closes quickly.","blocks.faq",{"id":491,"eyebrow":492,"heading":493,"body":49,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14310,"Related","Often paired with secretary work.",{"id":495,"heading":49,"dark":79,"variant":422,"note":49,"cells":496,"__component":450},6882,[497,502,506,510,515,520],{"id":498,"num":499,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":106,"avatar":49,"body":500,"span":501,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":107},27307,"SETUP","Get the structure right at formation, and we maintain it.","2",{"id":503,"num":504,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":110,"avatar":49,"body":505,"span":501,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":131,"href":111},27308,"ASSURANCE","Clean statutory records make audit and DD efficient.",{"id":507,"num":508,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":122,"avatar":49,"body":509,"span":501,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":123},27309,"ADVISORY","Governance, controls and risk register support.",{"id":511,"num":512,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":513,"avatar":49,"body":514,"span":501,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":244},27310,"MARKET","UK accounting services","Companies House and HMRC obligations in one calendar.",{"id":516,"num":517,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":518,"avatar":49,"body":519,"span":501,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":140},27311,"SECTOR","Startup accounting","Cap table, EMI options and diligence-ready statutory books.",{"id":521,"num":517,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":522,"avatar":49,"body":523,"span":501,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":184},27312,"Accountants for lawyers","Where SRA record keeping sits on top of company law.",{"id":525,"cta":526,"__component":531},2176,{"id":525,"eyebrow":527,"heading":528,"body":529,"primaryLabel":530,"primaryHref":323,"secondaryLabel":49,"secondaryHref":49,"dark":79},"Outsource secretary work","Want statutory records you can actually trust?","Thirty minutes to assess your current state and quote a retainer.","Book a company secretarial call","blocks.cta-banner"]