Whether you are a qualified company secretary or a director in the process of starting or expanding your business, you may need support with the essential company secretarial tasks. Our Company Secretarial team provides a comprehensive service, ensuring that your company complies with obligations under company law, allowing you to focus on running your business.

company formation

Our charge for a shelf company or bespoke incorporation includes the following:

  • a search on our online system to ensure that your chosen name is available
  • combined company register
  • writing up the company's registers to handover
  • providing standard first board minutes
  • transfer of the subscriber share and issue of share certificate
  • allotment of shares to up to four shareholders and issue of share certificate
  • six bound copies of the memorandum and articles of association
  • incorporating the company in your chosen name or changing the company's name at the time of supply of the company to you

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registered office

We can act as your registered office

  • Your company’s registered office address will be at our Harbour Court offices in Portsmouth so that we receive all communications addressed to the registered office.
  • We will forward mail (other than junk mail, direct marketing, and similar) on a weekly basis.

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company secretarial

In addition to the company secretarial service we will:

  • maintain the statutory registers of the company
  • file in the minute book minutes of meetings taken by you and offer certain standardised minutes
  • issue share or membership certificates
  • check, amend and file the annual return at Companies House
  • prepare and file all forms routinely requiring filing at Companies House such as notifying changes in directors or their details from time-to-time, subject to you providing us with the necessary information
  • prepare the notice, agenda, proxies and standard format minutes for the annual general meeting
  • at your request, act as company secretary of the company through our nominee company secretarial company, Blakelaw Secretaries Limited

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additional services

We will prepare all documentation necessary to effect the following transactions, together with additional advice as described below, charged on an hourly basis.

  • Change of company name
  • Memorandum and articles of association
  • Allotment of shares
  • Transfer of shares
  • Attendance at meetings
  • Supply of replacement statutory registers
  • Company and credit searches
  • Administration of property management companies

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For more information contact John Davis head of our Company Secretarial team on 023 8085 7078 or email  john.davis@bllaw.co.uk.