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Company Secretarial Services (CoSec)

Our company secretaries help relieve internal pressures so you can focus on building value.

Set your business apart with sound governance

Our team of Chartered Company Secretaries provides expert company secretarial services (CoSec). Professionally qualified and located in key jurisdictions they deliver tailored, local services for businesses of all sizes.

Regulations, corporate governance requirements, and legal entity compliance standards are evolving rapidly, increasing the risks of non-compliance for both organisations and individuals.

With deep knowledge of both listed and private funds, as well as multinational companies, our experienced corporate secretaries help you to manage and comply with legal and regulatory obligations, ensuring the highest standards of governance.

From renewable energy and intellectual property to space technology and exploration, we partner with a broad range of multi-jurisdictional alternative investment funds and corporations, offering outsourced company secretarial services that alleviate the administrative challenges of ever changing governance rules and regulations.

Our corporate secretarial services help you to

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  • Run better board meetings

    Our approach to board meetings is shaped by your specific needs – our company secretarial services provide comprehensive board meeting support, including coordination and preparation of agendas, board packs, action points, and minutes you require in a timely manner, enabling you to make informed decisions and uphold regulatory obligations.

  • Improve internal governance

    Effective governance starts at the top. We provide experienced directors, and a dedicated company secretarial team to streamline board meetings, strengthen shareholder engagement and enhance overall corporate governance compliance.

  • Reduce risk

    Regardless of asset class or jurisdiction, we maintain and document compliance with all your statutory obligations through our outsourced company secretarial services, reducing your regulatory and governance risk.

  • Go to market quickly

    Whether you are a first-time fund manager or launching a listed fund, our CoSec professionals will coordinate all necessary documentation, procedures, and investor communications so you can move to market efficiently and compliantly.

  • Build your competitive advantage

    We share best practices, governance processes, and corporate secretarial standards that transform your operations, safeguard your reputation, and optimise long-term business value.

Company secretarial services

We will provide a registered office, deliver company secretarial services and arrange statutory filings on your behalf, including confirmation statements, annual accounts, and ad hoc filings such as director changes, share allotments, and purchases.

As part of our company secretarial services we will maintain your statutory records, complete regulatory periodic reviews and submit all statutory filings, including annual confirmation statements (or equivalent) and annual accounts.

We will:  

  • Assist you to comply with all relevant corporate governance principles (as applicable) and assist directors in establishing and maintaining a robust corporate governance framework
  • Review the corporate governance disclosures in the annual and half yearly report
  • Provide maintenance of the company’s insider lists
  • Monitor directors’ interests and conflicts of interest and share dealings
  • Provide and coordinate internal and external board evaluations
  • Provision of a service provider review
  • Provide regular regulatory updates including the provision of a quarterly company secretarial report
  • Be a key intermediary between parties and stakeholders of the company

We will:

  • Organise board meetings as required, preparing papers in advance, attending such meetings and preparing and circulating action points and minutes.
  • Follow up and fulfil any further administration responsibilities in relation to the board meeting and corresponding action points
  • Organise the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and any other general meeting
  • Coordinate of ad-hoc board meetings to consider interim issues requiring board approval including virtual board meetings and written resolutions
  • Produce and distribute notices and agenda for board and committee meetings
  • Provide electronic board packs and document library through our support system, allowing directors to access board packs and documents remotely on a current and historic basis
  • Produce minutes and action points for all meetings

We will ensure compliance with all statutory, legal, and regulatory functions, including continuing obligations of stock exchange listings such as the release of all RNS announcements, as part of our company secretarial and compliance services.

For listed funds, we will:

  • Comply with the continuing obligations of the company’s stock exchange listing, including the requirements arising from the Disclosure Guidance & Transparency Rules and Market Abuse Regulation (as required)
  • Assist in the preparation and release of stock exchange announcements
  • Liaise with the registrar in connection with reports to the board of the company, including major shareholder notifications

We will deliver board training covering director duties and responsibilities, corporate governance, and market abuse regulations, helping boards maintain compliance with best practice governance standards.

What you say

What you say

  • “The board of RCOI have been very impressed with the extremely high quality and consistency of the Ocorian company secretarial support that they have received since day 1 of the company’s life. The team at Ocorian are professional, organised and personable.Every board pack and RNS is prepared to the highest standard, well ahead of time, and communication from Ocorian is always focused and clear ensuring that required changes and amendments are made smoothly and efficiently. We recommend this team highly.”

    Riverstone Credit Opportunities Income PLC

    Audit & Risk Committee Chairman

  • "With a majority non-executive board and a largely outsourced business model, we place great reliance on our 3rd party advisers. Ocorian provide an excellent corporate secretarial service with a good attention to detail and proactively stay ahead of the game, including with respect to emerging regulation."

    NB Private Equity Partners Limited

    Chairman

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