Entity Governance and Compliance

Our Entity Governance & Compliance practice delivers you proactive and cost efficient support for managing the compliance obligations of entities registered in Australia. Our tech-enabled approach connects you to a global network of governance experts, all focused on helping you navigate governance, transactions and compliance issues in a cost-effective way.

Compliance

We provide you with peace of mind knowing that your ASIC compliance obligations are managed by professionals in a proactive and cost effective manner. We do this through our dedicated team of professionals to ensure a rapid response to your requirements and the use of our technology solutions to assist you in having oversight of your entities obligations and compliance.

We help clients maintain, track and monitor the good legal standing of legal entities in Australia and around the world, to ensure you are meeting your compliance obligations. Whether you have one legal entity in Australia or 100 we can assist in ensuring your compliance obligations are attended to.

We support clients locally and globally, with the maintenance of statutory registers and filings, project managing approval and filing processes for annual financial statements, responding to entity governance and compliance related queries, and providing clear document execution guidance and support to directors. In Australia, we can assist you across the entire entity lifecycle from incorporation, ongoing maintenance and entity dissolution. 

Entity Lifecycle Infographics

How we can work with you

  • Incorporation of Australian companies with Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC )

  • Registrations for branches / registered foreign companies with ASIC

  • Initial registrations (ie Australian Business Numbers, Tax File Numbers etc)

  • Applications for Director Identification Numbers for directors without Australian identification documents

  • Establishment of initial corporate records for the above

  • Ongoing ASIC compliance requirements including acting as the Registered Agent, review and attending to the Annual Company Statement, assisting with updates to the public record (director, member, address, share capital changes)

  • Ongoing virtual corporate register maintenance including documentation and filing of executed resolutions

  • Advice on application of relief from ASIC reporting requirements including for small foreign controlled entities

  • Entity deregistration services

  • Board support services including meeting administration, agenda structure, minutes and assistance with the running of meetings

  • Interim secondment support

  • Custom corporate governance support

  • Company Secretariat Managed Services, subsidiary legal entity management and coordination services for Australian entities and globally through our network firms