Premium Corporate Compliance and Company Secretarial Services
The provision of company secretarial services to the Matheson’s leading international clients is undertaken by dedicated company secretary professionals who work alongside corporate lawyers in the group.
This methodology ensures seamless delivery of service and works particularly well where there is a high volume of company secretarial work. Critically, it also means that approach to providing these services is fully integrated with all other aspects of the legal offering provided to clients, such that the services are provided in the appropriate commercial context.
Areas of Assistance Include:
- an initial “no fee” review of the statutory registers of each company to assess compliance to date and identify opportunities to streamline compliance obligations;
- company incorporations, foreign companies branch or place of business registrations, re-registrations, business trading registrations;
- post-incorporation advice in relation to continuing obligations of an Irish company or an Irish branch post -registration;
- provision of named company secretary, registered office address and related services;
- maintenance of statutory registers and minute book;
- attendance at meetings of the board of directors, preparation of board packs and minuting meetings;
- advice and documentation relating to annual general meetings and extraordinary general meetings;
- preparation of annual returns and all other filings to be made at the Companies Registration Office;
- advice in relation to the disclosure of financial information at the Companies Registration Office in the context of public filings;
- advice in relation to beneficial ownership filings;
- arranging notarisation and/or apostilisation of documents;
- changes in directors and secretaries (appointments and/or resignations);
- re-registration of different company types and changes to constitutions; and
- advice in connection with share capital changes (including allotments or transfers).
Compliance
Matheson’s experienced company secretaries work together with our lawyers understand the significance of global compliance and in that context ensure that Irish filing deadlines are monitored and all Irish compliance obligations are met in a timely manner.
