Global corporate secretarial services

Manageable and compliant global entities

Managing corporate secretarial and compliance requirements can often become complex and burdensome, especially when managing numerous entities via multiple third parties and across several countries where local rules, regulations and processes can vary wildly.

In-house legal departments work hard to ensure their business remains compliant and avoid the consequences of falling foul of rules and regulations, especially as it is the function that sets the corporate risk and compliance culture in the organisation.

Increasingly, in-house teams want to enhance their reputation for removing hurdles that hold a business back, enabling them to enter new markets sooner, integrate M&A activity faster or scale the business more quickly. To do this, they are expected to maintain a global overview of the company’s corporate housekeeping, including juggling and meeting local deadlines. They often handle legal compliance administration, balancing the time-consuming coordination of company secretarial duties across many markets and time zones, while also being expected to focus on strategic legal and corporate governance work.

Our 4,000 experts around the world can help you achieve these goals while removing the burden of keeping up-to-speed with changing rules and regulations. We can help you satisfy internal pressures to keep teams lean and focused on the areas they add the most value to and happen to enjoy the most. And, most importantly, we can help drive visibility and control of your entities worldwide via our proprietary client portal, IRIS.

Our services include:

• Sharing knowledge on the types of structures available to you
• Compliance with applicable local rules and regulations, through a single point of coordination, across your international entities
• Company secretarial services including company formation, international structuring, registered address, process agent, directorships, and board support services
• Transactional services such as name or director changes
• Implementing structures and arrangements
• Obtaining official corporate documents such as certificates of incorporation and certificates of good standing
• Sourcing relevant professional licences and tax registrations
• Regulatory and compliance services, including; Common Reporting Standards (CRS), Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Country-by-Country notification and OECD Local and Master File, Know Your Customer (KYC) obligations and Legal Entity Identifier.
• Managing transactions and rationalising existing entities
• Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) registration
• Standardising local and central compliance reports
• Liaising with your advisors, banks, lawyers as appropriate