Company Secretarial

Our specialised Company Secretarial team stand ready to guide you through the process of setting up a company, with a tailored and cooperative approach that's rooted in placing you on the right road to your company's governance.

We deal with a diverse clientele, advising private limited companies, charities, membership organisations, and we regularly engage with overseas entities.

Company Formation Services

• Incorporation services
• adopting general trading articles of association or model articles
• setting up your statutory registers
• drafting your company's first board minute

What is Incorporation?
Incorporation is the legal process by which a business is recognised as having its own legal identity separate from its owners and managers. Companies are incorporated once they are registered at Companies House.

Every company which has been incorporated within the UK is registered with Companies House and is required to make filings at Companies House. This includes the annual confirmation statement, director changes, account filings and other notifications about the company. We are able to assist you with these filings other than the accounts.

We can help you by preparing for and drafting minutes of a board meeting, or in the case of sole director companies – a resolution.

What is a board meeting?
A board meeting is a main decision making forum held between a company's directors. These meetings are presided by a chairperson and must be quorate; the meeting should be conducted according to the company's governing documents and voting rights must be adhered to.

Our team's expertise extends to removing, terminating and appointing directors; drafting board minutes and resolutions, and advising on conflicts of interests and directors' duties.

Our services :

• Director Terminations, Removals and Appointments
• Board Minutes and Resolutions
• Conflicts of interest and substantial property transactions
• Directors' duties
• Ongoing corporate governance

Supporting both developers and residents, our company secretarial team provide specialist assistance ensuring the smooth operation of residents' property management companies.

Our Services

• Formation of a Property Management Company
• Creation of the management company's statutory books
• Handover of the management company from the developers to the homeowners
• Appointing new directors
• Acting as registered office
• Answering replies to enquiries from a new purchaser looking to buy a property connected to the management company
• Transferring shares in the management company when a property is bought or sold

Every incorporated company must have a registered office address in the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated. Herrington Carmichael's registered office and SAIL service provides an annual service designed to ease your company's administrative burden.

Our company secretarial team provide an established registered office address service, operating on an annual subscription basis, to provide peace of mind to company directors by easing their administrative burden.

All companies which are registered in the UK are required by law to keep statutory registers at either their registered office or single alternative inspection location. The statutory registers provide a story of both the historical and the current ownership and directorship of the company.

Our company secretarial team can reconstitute your company's statutory registers if they have not been kept up to date or if they were never prepared.

At Herrington Carmichael, we specialise in guiding companies through the process of voluntarily striking off under section 1003 of the Companies Act 2006.

Our Strike-off Service Includes:

• Eligibility assessment: we ensure you understand the pre-requisites for a strike-off application
• Preparation and submission of DS01 Form
• Compliance with legal obligations