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Advisors to Boards and Shareholders
At CorpServe, we believe in harnessing technology through the use of our cloud platform to take care of our clients' basic secretarial needs. We focus our time and resources on understanding our clients' businesses and provide value-added advisory services to the Board and shareholders. We guide the Board on best practices in various critical core functions from accounting, finance to compliance, so that the business remains agile to make faster decisions.
Having a set of effective best practices in place ensures there is a due process of discussion and consideration by the Board in making decisions. This also enhances accountability and fosters clear and transparent communication amongst Board members and between the Board and its shareholders to avoid unnecessary miscommunication and conflicts.
We help entrepreneurs and boards to
- start right;
- institute good governance and best practices; and
- plan, simplify, and execute corporate transactions.
Incorporation
Set up your business on the right footing
The starting point in doing business in Singapore is to decide on the type of entity that best suits the needs of the business owner. We provide a comprehensive range of end-to-end services for business formation – from advising on the type of entity to the successful registration of the business.
We offer guidance and advice in the following areas:
- Registration of company or other type of entities such as business firm, partnership, foreign branch, variable capital company (“VCC”), and representative office
- Setting up of a bank account
- Setting up of CorpPass to gain access to relevant Government bodies
- Registration with relevant authorities such as Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (“IRAS”) and the Central Provident Fund (“CPF”) Board
- Advise on eligible government grants for businesses
- Advise on optimal tax structure and planning
- Advise on business plans and market entry strategies
- Facilitation of market feasibility studies
- Facilitation of Singapore commercial searches
- Applications of business licences
- Registration of Intellectual Property (“IP”) and drafting of related agreements
Corporate Secretarial & Compliance Service
Manage your obligations, ensure compliance, and mitigate risks
We guide and advise businesses on compliance matters with relevant rules and regulations in Singapore to VCC, private or public company limited by shares and public company limited by guarantee. Depending on the needs, we also take care of foundational compliance requirements of businesses. Business owners have the choice to add on advisory services whenever they need them, without having to worry about compliance matters.
Our support services:
- Corporate secretarial assistance service
- Provision of nominee secretary service
- Provision of nominee director service
- Maintenance of statutory registers and minutes books
- Registration of office in Singapore
- Mail management service
- Cloud-based platform for easy downloading and requesting for company’s documents
- Notarisation and legalisation of documents
- Global compliance and co-ordination, serving as the main point of contact to help oversee complex regulatory and statutory compliance requirements imposed by local laws of your overseas subsidiaries
- Co-sourcing – provision of support for your internal secretarial and compliance functions
- Advisory and transactional support services
Co-sourcing
External expertise to complement your in-house corporate secretarial function
With the ever-evolving regulatory environment, companies may, from time to time, require external expertise in areas of corporate secretarial and corporate compliance to complement their in-house corporate secretarial function. We provide such technical resource to companies on a contract or project basis.
How we support:
- Establish and organise the company’s internal secretarial system and procedures
- Conduct health check on the company’s constitutional and statutory records
- Liaise with relevant government bodies and company’s appointed external counsels to execute corporate transactions
- Assist in drafting of directors’ and shareholders’ resolutions
Administer share related transactions - Liaise with in-house secretarial departments in respective countries to ensure compliance with local regulations
- Liaise with board of directors and key management personnel to arrange for the signing of official documents to be filed by the local registrar in each country
- Facilitate implementation of the Group’s internal restructuring and re-organisation
- Monitor compliance timelines for each jurisdiction
Advisory & Transactional Support Services
Sound advice and effective solutions to support the strategic growth of your business
We understand that a myriad of factors and tensions come into play when you are dealing with complex transactions. From shareholder advisory, mergers and acquisitions to asset management, and financial restructuring and strategic exits, we provide sound advice, effective solutions, and support our clients in their strategic growth to increase shareholders’ value, and help solve challenging problems.
How we support:
- Corporate health checks
- Complex share-based structures
- Corporate restructuring
- Corporate governance matters
- Shareholders’ management strategy
Whether you are planning your startup, managing or expanding your business, we provide a holistic, one-stop business solution, bringing you the best of both worlds - technology and human interaction - as your advisor to the Board and shareholders.