Corporate Law & Governance
Our Corporate Secretarial Services assists you through the challenges and changes, easing your administrative burden to manage and mitigate risks of corporate non-compliance.
Failure to comply with statutory obligations can have potentially severe legal consequences for the company, its shareholders and directors.
Statutory Health Check
- Corporate status check;
- Statutory review and comparison of company and registry records to ensure consistency and full compliance with prevailing statutory rules;
- Remedial work to regularize anomalies and to remedy compliance failings identified during the status check and statutory review procedures;
- Preparatory compliance check and remediation in view of transactional work (M&A, corporate reorganizations, etc.);
- Charge filings and Search Reports for lending banks and Financial Institutions from Registrar of Companies.
- Conducting due diligence on a company or generating any other specific search reports in respect of the companies from the records available with the regulatory authorities (Registrar of Companies).
Recurring corporate compliance matters
- Procedures relating to Board Meetings, General meetings including the pre and post meeting formalities such as notice for the meetings, preparing resolutions etc.
- Preparation of annual reports and annual accounts including Balance Sheet, Profit and loss account, income and expenditure statement, directors’ report, statement on corporate governance, compliance certificate, directors, chairman’s statement etc
- Maintenance of secretarial records, statutory books and registers
Periodic changes and one-off events
- Constitutional changes, e.g. changes of company name, registered offices, business objects, increase/decrease of registered share capital, articlesetc.;
- Changes in the management (resignation, removal and appointment of directors);
- Convening, holding and drafting of the minutes of directors and extraordinary shareholder meetings connected with non routine event driven activities ;
- Fast Track Exit, Voluntary liquidations and deletions of companies and branches;
- Procedures and compliances related to making inter-company loans, investments, guarantees, and providing of securities.
- Changes with respect to appointment, re-appointment, regularization, resignations, fixation and revisions of the remunerations of Directors, Managers, Company Secretary, Compliance officer, secretary in whole time practice, auditors, cost auditors, sole selling agents etc.
- Allotment, consolidation/sub-division of shares, share transfer and transmission, conversion of shares into stocks or warrants, issue of shares certificates, dematerialization of shares, forfeiture of shares etc.
- Procedural requirements for creation, modification and satisfaction of charges and registration thereof by the Registrar of Companies.
- Procedure for ascertainment, declaration and payment of interim and final dividend; management of unpaid and unclaimed dividend.
- Filing of other documents including the forms and the returns with the Registrar of Companies.
- Advisory Services on the constitution of Board of Directors, Independent Directors, women Directors, small shareholders Directors, Audit Committee, Remuneration and Grievance Committee.
- Complete support and advisory services for implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in compliance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2013.