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Fletcher Kennedy Limited Company Formation Specialists +44(0)1428 656600 contact@fletcherkennedy.com |
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To assist with the operation of your company we can provide the following corporate services.
Nominee Company Secretary Nominee Director
Completion of Annual Return Preparation of Company Accounts Change of Company Name Change in Memorandum and Articles of Association
For More Detailed Information about our corporate services please see below Registered OfficeEvery company must have a Registered Office at which official documents can be served (Companies Act 1985 section 287(1)) and this address should be displayed on all business letterheads and order forms of the company (section 351). The Registered Office address need not be the company's place of business, and is often the address of a company that provides company formation services such as Fletcher Kennedy Limited or that of a solicitor or accountant or even one of the directors home address. Official documents, such as documents from a court, are normally served on a company at its Registered Office, and official correspondence is usually sent to the Registered Office, for example official letters from the Inland Revenue and the Registrar of Companies. The address must be in England or Wales for companies registered in England or Wales, and Scotland for companies registered in Scotland. If you do not have a suitable address, or if you would prefer not to use your own address, we can provide you with a Registered Office
If your company is already incorporated and you want to use this Registered Office service please click here If you have not yet incorporated your company, you will be able to request this service with your order Our registered office facility provides a basic mail forwarding service that is intended to deal with routine Companies House and Inland Revenue letters. However, we can also provide a full mail forwarding service. See also: Nominee Director - Company Secretary - Nominee Shareholder Nominee Director?Our nominee director service is used to ensure the highest degree of privacy and confidentiality. Order our Nominee Director Service UK Company law requires that information on directors must be registered in the public files of the Companies Registry. Therefore only by using nominee directors can the client's anonymity and confidentiality be ensured. The basic function of the Nominee Director is to shield working executives of Limited and other companies from the public disclosure requirements that exist in the UK and other jurisdictions. It is a perfectly legal device which preserves the privacy of an individual. It is designed to help a person who would rather not disclose their interest or association with a given corporate body. Anyone performing a Company Search on a company with a Nominee Director would be unable to discover in whose name the Nominee Director was registered. The essence of a nominee director service is that it is the names of the nominee directors are indicated in the corporate documentation. This means that names of the company's beneficial owners are not disclosed to the Companies Registry, so that clients are ensured the utmost confidentiality. At the same time the appointed nominees are not actually entitled to manage the company. We can provide the beneficial owner with a Power of Attorney empowering him or her to run the business, manage the company's activities and open and operate the company's bank accounts. There are however limitations to the function of the Nominee Director. The Nominee is a director of a company in name only and has no other powers or responsibilities. The Nominee Director cannot and will not enter into any business contract or financial or moral commitment. The Nominee Director cannot sign any official forms or verify that any information provided to Government Agencies, including Tax Authorities, is correct. These terms are defined in our nominee director agreement Since the address of the Nominee Director will be one of ours, we will from time to time receive correspondence which will require the attention of the person requesting the Nominee Director Service. As part of the service we will forward these documents. Please note that this address should not be used for any trading purposes or general correspondence, or for any form of advertising. The address is only to be used to comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 1985 in relation to official mail and documents. Our fee for this service is £350 per year If you would like to use our nominee director service please click here See also: Nominee Director - Company Secretary - Nominee Shareholder Nominee Company SecretaryEvery limited company must have a Company Secretary (Companies Act 1985 section 283) who will perform a variety of tasks crucial to the smooth running of the company, which includes ensuring that the company's statutory obligations are complied with. We provide a company secretarial service to ensure that these important statutory requirements are fulfilled, leaving the day to day running of the company to the directors. We ensure that all the company's statutory requirements are met, including the filing of the accounts and annual returns (subject to the receipt of all requisite documents).As your Company Secretary, we will prepare other documents in respect of changes to the company structure as and when they occur. Such matters will include allotment of shares, transfer of shares and appointments and resignations of officers.
Our fee for this service is £160 per year If you want to use our Nominee Company Secretary service please click here See also: Nominee Director - Company Secretary - Nominee Secretary - Nominee Shareholder Nominee Shareholder?A nominee is normally a company created for the purpose of holding shares and other securities on behalf of investors. With our service the the nominee is not the legal owner of the shares, and the underlying investors have the "beneficial interest" in the shares: i.e. they are entitled to all income and capital gains on them. If you would like to use our nominee shareholder service please click here Upon taking on the duties of Nominee Shareholder, we would hold your shares on trust in the form of a Nominee Shareholders Agreement. Our Nominee Shareholders Agreement would serve the purpose of ensuring that your identity as Beneficial Owner(s) is only known to us and not put on public record at the Company's Registry. An original Share Transfer Form signed by us, but undated, will be issued to you, so that you can have the security of being able to transfer the shares at any time. A nominee holding occurs where a third party holds shares on your behalf. This can be purely an administrative matter to aid the management of shareholdings. Fletcher Kennedy Nominees Ltd will act as nominee shareholder for your company. Fletcher Kennedy Nominees Ltd are professionals who hold the shares registered in our name for the benefit of another. A Declaration of Trust and beneficial ownership signed and sealed by us will be supplied. Our fee for this service is £140 per year. If you would like to use our nominee shareholder service please click here See also: Nominee Director - Company Secretary - Nominee Shareholder Top of Page |