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Corporate Compliance

Registering a company takes a few days. Staying compliant lasts as long as the company does, and it is the part most businesses quietly fall behind on. We run the calendar: the Form A annual return within 30 days of your AGM, Form 29 inside the 15-day window whenever an officer changes, the Form 45 beneficial ownership declaration, and the statutory registers and minute book kept current. Penalties under the Companies Act run per day of default, so the point of the calendar is that nothing accrues quietly in the background.

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Scope

What'sincluded

Everything below is in the standard engagement. Anything outside it is agreed in writing before the work starts, never after.

  • The annual return on Form A, filed within 30 days of your AGM as section 130 requires
  • Form 29 for any change of director, chief executive, secretary, CFO, auditor or legal adviser, filed inside the 15-day window
  • Form 45 beneficial ownership declarations under section 123A, kept current
  • Share transfers, allotments and increases in authorised capital
  • Statutory registers, board minutes and resolutions drafted and maintained
  • A compliance calendar with every deadline tracked and flagged before it arrives

Who this is for

Built for three situations

  • Companies behind on their filings
  • Businesses restructuring ownership
  • Founders with no company secretary

Process

How thisactually runs

  1. Compliance audit

    We pull your SECP record, identify every filing that is late or missing, and give you a written position on exposure before anything is submitted.

  2. Catch-up filings

    Overdue returns and event-based forms brought current, with penalties computed and paid so the record is clean rather than partially fixed.

  3. Registers rebuilt

    Statutory registers, minute book and resolutions reconstructed to match what actually happened, which is what a due diligence exercise will ask for.

  4. Ongoing calendar

    Annual and event-based filings prepared and submitted on schedule, with a reminder to you before each deadline rather than after.

Deliverables

What you end up holding

  • Filed Form A and Form 29 with SECP acknowledgements
  • Statutory registers: members, directors, charges and beneficial owners
  • A maintained minute book with signed board and general meeting resolutions
  • A written compliance position showing what was outstanding and what was cleared
  • A compliance calendar for the year ahead

What we need from you

Documents required

  • Certificate of Incorporation and current Memorandum and Articles
  • SECP eServices login, or authorisation for us to act
  • Details of every director and officer change since the last filing
  • Audited or draft financial statements for the year being filed
  • Existing registers and minute book, in whatever state they are in

Missing something? Tell us anyway. We can usually work around a gap, and it is better to know before we start.

Next step

Tell us your situation and we will scope it.

Talk to us about it

Scope, fee and dates confirmed in writing before anything starts.

Questions

AboutCorporate Compliance

  • What happens if I miss an SECP filing?

    Penalties run per day of default and attach to the company and to its directors personally. Prolonged non-compliance can get the company struck off the register altogether. What makes it dangerous is that nothing arrives in the post while it accumulates, so companies usually discover the figure at the worst moment, which is when a bank, a buyer or a tender asks for a clean compliance record.

  • How quickly must a director change be filed?

    Form 29 is due within 15 days of the appointment or the change, and the clock starts on the date of the board resolution rather than the date somebody remembers to tell us. The same form covers the chief executive, the secretary, the CFO, the auditors and the legal adviser, not only directors. Late Form 29 filing is one of the most common defaults we clear, and it is entirely avoidable if the resolution and the filing happen in the same sitting.

  • Do you also prepare the accounts that go with the annual return?

    Not in this engagement. The accounts come from our Financial Accounting service and, where a statutory audit applies, from your independent auditor. We file what is signed off. Keeping the two separate is deliberate, because the filing agent should not also be the source of the numbers being filed.

  • We have never kept a minute book. Is that a problem?

    It is a problem the first time a buyer, a bank or an investor asks for it, and by then it is too late to create one credibly. We reconstruct the registers and minutes from the filings and resolutions that do exist, note honestly what could not be evidenced, and keep it current from that point.

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