The Team has over 30 years' experience across all aspects of company secretarial practice.
Annual compliance – how our annual compliance service adds value for our clients
The DWF Annual Compliance service enables our clients to comply with CA2006 filing obligations. During each year, a UK limited company must file both its Confirmation Statement ("Form CS01") and Annual Report and Accounts with the Registrar of Companies, and our Annual Compliance service is designed to support these processes. We maintain our client's company records using Diligent Entities software, which enables us to link a single source of up-to-date company information to the Companies House web-filing system, resulting in a high level of assurance for our clients.
- By managing compliance filings, we give clients assurance that their documents will be submitted in advance of filing deadlines, and their company will remain in good standing.
- Maintaining statutory registers on our software allows for quick and accurate production of documents, facilitates the effective management of group structures, and ensures that the company records remain in sync with the information filed on the public record.
- Ensuring compliance with Companies House filing deadlines protects clients against the risk of late-filing penalties and strike-off actions.
"DWF Company Secretarial Services UK has continued to provide invaluable support to my business, providing support to circa. 70 UK companies. I regularly call upon their skills and experience to assist with my corporate secretarial requests and find that they provide a high-quality service and a proactive approach" General Counsel and Company Secretary
Board support service
Our Board Support service is based on delivering advice on governance matters to enable Boards, and their Committees, to hold positive meetings. In addition to minute-taking, we provide support with the scheduling of meetings, preparation and circulation of the agenda and papers, and updating management actions.
We provide Board Support services to a number of our clients, ranging from occasional meeting support to close involvement with a wider range of governance matters. From May 2023 to May 2024, we provided maternity leave cover for the Company Secretary of a UK Government-owned limited company. In addition to meeting support, we facilitated the Annual Governance Review and Statement, Board Performance Evaluation and updates to the Corporate Governance Framework, and delivered directors' duties training as part of NED induction. We established a strong relationship with our client from the beginning, and they benefitted from continuous access to experienced Corporate Secretarial support, and high-quality governance advice, in the absence of the Company Secretary.
"We found the experience of appointing DWF to deliver the company secretarial role as an outsourcer was very positive and would definitely consider using the service again in the future." Chief Finance Officer
Please contact the UK Corporate Secretarial team if you would like to discuss the support we can offer in more detail.
