OBJECTIVES

This webinar aims to provide insights into company secretarial responsibilities, challenges and best practices. Attendees will receive a fast paced round up of all the key elements involved in acting as a company secretary and / or providing company secretarial services.

KEY TOPICS

The Company Secretary role
Powers and relationship with directors
Duties under the Companies Act, including ECCTA 2023 reform and administrative responsibilities
The Company’s registers – keeping them up to date
The members of a company, legal issues relating to shareholders
Meetings and resolutions – regulations, including minutes
Accounts and reports – the officers’ responsibilities
The role of Companies House in the new era of transparency
Difference between shares - how do they affect the percentage owned, what are the advantages of having different types of shares?
- Preference (including different percentage)
- Alphabet
- Ordinary
How to establish if the shares have voting rights attached

What would qualify someone to have ‘significant control’?

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Those responsible for providing SMEs with Company Secretarial services or those advising SMEs on key risks and procedures in this area.

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