Company Secretarial Services - responsibilities, challenges & solutions

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.