Keeping up with your statutory obligations can take valuable time, particularly as your business grows or changes.
Our specialist company secretarial team can help keep your company or limited liability partnership (LLP) records accurate, filings up to date and statutory affairs in order, giving you more time to focus on your business.
Whether you need ongoing support or help with a specific transaction or change, we’ll take the time to understand what you need. Our service complements the wider support we provide to Saffery clients, giving you access to joined-up expertise when you need it.
We focus on statutory compliance and administration rather than legal advice, working with your legal advisers, or a trusted firm, where specific legal input is needed.
How we can support you
Ongoing compliance and entity records
We can help you maintain accurate statutory records and keep on top of Companies House requirements, including:
- Preparing and filing confirmation statements
- Maintaining statutory registers and LLP records
- Providing a registered office address, with mail scanning and electronic forwarding
- Monitoring Companies House compliance requirements using specialist company secretarial software
- Filing changes to people with significant control (PSC) and company officers
- Correcting previous filings
- Registering eligible companies for protected online filing, where appropriate, to help safeguard against unauthorised changes
Company formations and changes
From straightforward incorporations to more complex formations involving multiple share classes or bespoke articles, we can manage the process and supporting documentation.
As your business develops, we can also help with:
- Company name changes
- Accounting reference date changes
- Re-registrations
- Filings required for director appointments and resignations
Shareholder and share capital matters
We can help with a range of shareholder and share capital matters, including transactions involving complex share structures or larger numbers of shareholders.
Our support includes:
- Share transfers and allotments
- Share capital reductions
- Share buybacks and cancellations
- Share redesignations
- Stamp duty applications relating to share transfers
Company decisions and supporting documentation
We can prepare the documentation needed to record company decisions and help keep your statutory records up to date, including:
- Dividend paperwork
- Ad hoc board and shareholder resolutions
- Resolutions needed to open a bank account or approve accounts
- Supporting board and shareholder minutes
- Certificates of good standing
- Company searches
Dissolutions, restorations and registered office matters
Whether you’re closing a company, restoring one to the register or dealing with a registered office issue, our team can support you with the relevant administrative requirements.
This includes:
- Company dissolutions
- Administrative restorations
- Helping where a registered office address has been used without authorisation
- UK establishments for overseas companies
- Service address requirements, where relevant
Specialist expertise, built around your needs
Our specialist team combines technical expertise with responsive, personal service. We can manage routine compliance and company changes, helping to reduce the administrative burden and giving you confidence that your statutory requirements are being dealt with accurately and on time.
Get in touch
Whether you need ongoing company secretarial support or help with a specific transaction or changes, get in touch to find out how we can help.
If you already use other Saffery services, we can work alongside those teams to provide joined-up support. Our company secretarial service extends beyond the areas listed above and can be tailored to complement the wider support we provide.
