Company Secretarial services

Corporate Governance. Legislation. Regulations. Compliance. There’s a lot to consider when running a business.

The Wilson Partners Company Secretarial team, headed by our in-house Chartered Secretary in Public Practice with over 25 years’ experience, can provide you with a full range of services and solutions to your compliance and governance needs. Supporting you with governance, best practice, company law and compliance matters.

Our dedicated team will take the time to understand your needs and requirements leaving you to focus on your business, safe in the knowledge that you are compliant.

The Company Secretarial team are experienced in dealing with Limited Companies (by shares or guarantee), Limited Liability Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, Overseas Companies and UK Establishments. Our range of services include:

• Incorporation of new companies and LLPs
• Registration of UK Establishments of overseas companies
• Change of company names
• Drafting or amending Articles of Association
• Share capital restructuring (e.g., allotments, transfers, conversions, subdivisions and consolidations)
• Dividend documentation
• Preparation and submission of forms and resolutions to Companies House
• Company strike offs and administrative restorations
• Audit of company records before and after company acquisitions

Annual retainer service

We are talking about finance, so does a retained fee for company secretarial services actually make financial sense? When you consider this service ensures your business is meeting the requirements of the Companies Act 2006, we’d suggest so! Our Annual Retainer Service includes:

• Maintaining and Holding the company’s statutory registers
• Provision of a Company Secretary
• Preparation and submission of the annual Confirmation Statement (CS01) to Companies House

Provision of a registered office

We are able to provide a registered office address for your business(es) to provide Companies House, HMRC, and other government bodies with an official address where statutory communications and legal notices can be securely delivered.

Board meeting support and minuting

Meetings can be complex and time consuming. We offer a range of services to assist with recording and monitoring progress and decisions of meetings between boards of directors, boards of trustees, shareholders, members, partners and/or investment funds.

Create your own bespoke service by selecting from the following board support and minuting services:

• Wilson Partners attending your meetings and providing minutes
• Full board support service including agenda and board pack preparation, attendance and minutes, action points summary and BCS Wilson Partners undertaking follow-up on actions
• Preparation of minutes from recordings you send to us
• Minutes and summaries tailored to your specific needs and formats
• Conference call and recording facilities available
• Managing board meeting timetables by scheduling meetings and issuing calendar invites to participants

Share options schemes

Are you looking for ways to retain and motivate staff?

For many business owners, people are their most precious asset. Employee share schemes offering long-term tax-efficient incentives are an excellent way to motivate your people and recognise and reward their loyalty and contribution to your business success.

You may wish to consider offering a share option scheme to your employees which can be an effective way to provide equity. Some types of schemes may also be used for non-executive directors and consultants.

There is a range of incentive schemes available, the most common being:

• Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI)
• Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
• Executive Share Option Plan (ESOP)

Wilson Partners can assist you through the process of planning, share option scheme selection and implementation. Following this, we can assist you with the ongoing maintenance and administration of the scheme, along with the required submissions to HMRC by certain deadlines.

SEIS / EIS

SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) and EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) are schemes designed to help small, early-stage companies raise equity finance, by offering a range of tax reliefs to individual investors purchasing new shares in those companies. We advise both companies and individuals on these schemes and guide them through the complex legislation and conditions. Click here to access our free tax guides.