Company secretarial

Keystone offers company secretarial (via a third-party outsourced specialist) and registered office services to clients. Apart from anything else, being the registered office gives us early notice of developments with the client for which we can offer assistance.

The following template documents are available on Keyed-In:

1. Company Secretarial Brochure
2. Company Secretarial Application Form
3. Company Secretarial Engagement Letter.

Annual charges:

• Registered office service: £500 plus VAT.
• service: £500 plus VAT.
• Both service £850 plus VAT.
• Directors address for service £225 plus VAT.
• Company notice email address £100 plus VAT.

In addition, a float of £600 is taken to cover the sending of documents or any ad hoc Companies House filings as may be required. (Note these are at cost, no Introducer Fee accrues on these Central Office fees.)

Hannah Doherty oversees the provision of our registered office and company secretarial services. If you have a client that would like to take our services then please contact her directly.

Set out below is the process for setting up a client with our company secretarial and registered office services:

• Send client the Company Secretarial Brochure.
• Send client the Company Secretarial Application Form for completing, signing and returning.
• Set up new client and matter. If the company is already a Keystone client then just a new matter.
• An invoice, costs on account statement and engagement letter will be raised and sent to the client.
• If the client is taking our registered office service and has hard copy statutory books then they need to be sent by courier to be held at Central Office (or a form ADO3 needs to be filed at Companies House).
• Central Office commences Company Secretarial services.
• Process renews in November every year with a January start date, regardless of start date.