Company Secretarial

We understand that complying with your statutory obligations under the Companies Act is time-consuming, which many business owners find onerous.

However, failure to comply with company legislation can have serious consequences, resulting in fines, penalties or even your company/directors being struck-off.

At Hall Livesey Brown, we can take care of all your company secretarial responsibilities from preparing all documentation for filing, maintaining statutory books, providing general advice on changes and how they will affect you, through to essential business start-up advice.

Our company secretarial and company formation services include:

Company Formations

We can provide you with a fast, efficient and complete company formations service, preparing and filing all required documentation.

Confirmation Statements (formerly Annual Returns)

If you are a limited company, you are required to check the information that Companies House holds on your company once a year. This is called a ‘confirmation statement’. The confirmation statement has replaced the annual return to Companies House. This is different from your company’s annual accounts and tax return.

You will be notified when your confirmation statement is due. We will ask you to check your information on the Companies House register is correct and file the confirmation statement on-time. We will also notify Companies House of any changes to your confirmation statement – this is filed separately.

Business Start-up Advice

We offer a comprehensive range of services informed by years of experience of advising start-up businesses across a wide range of sectors.

We advise on the most tax-efficient structure for your business, look after your company secretarial requirements, assist in accessing finance such as grants or borrowing from financial institutions, to preparing a business plan, cash flow forecasts and budgets.

Once you are up and running, you don’t have to go it alone. We provide a range of services to help you during those early years from bookkeeping and payroll, preparing your year-end accounts, to ensuring your business continues to meet its statutory obligations.