Corporate Secretarial & ERM
Corporate Secretarial
We are a Registered Professional Entity with ACRA and can help you to perform incorporation, provide nominee director and full suite of corporate secretarial services, in addition to polling agent and scrutineer services for your AGM/EGM (including virtual shareholder meetings) and setting up Variable Capital Company (VCC).
Setting up / Incorporation services
We provide a comprehensive range of services relating to business formation including:-
- Incorporation of private and public limited company in Singapore
- Registration of a foreign branch in Singapore
- Registration of Singapore Representative Office
- Sole proprietorship, Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and non-profit entities.
- Provision of nominee secretary, nominee director or local agent
- Provision of registered office facilities.
- Assist in opening of corporate bank accounts.
- Setting up family offices and trusts.
- Setting up Variable Capital Company (VCC).
Corporate Secretarial Services (for SMEs, Listed entities and MNCs)
Our services include:
- Preparing of minutes / resolutions of Directors and Shareholders.
- Organize and attend directors’ and shareholder’s meetings like AGMs and EGMs.
- Filing of Annual Return and financial statements with ACRA
- Share transfer, allotment, share buy back, capital reduction
- Change of Constitution (f.k.a. Memorandum and Articles of Association)
- Change of directors, secretary and auditors
- Change in shareholdings
- Change in financial year end
- Change of registered address and company officer’s particulars
- Change of company name and business activities
- Registration and de-registration of fixed/floating charges (lien over assets)
- Striking-off of private and public limited companies
- Members and Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation
- Advising/updating clients on compliance with the Singapore Companies Act and its regulations.
XBRL Filling
We help you to prepare your financial statements in XBRL format and upload them to Bizfile portal.
Corporate Advisory Services (for SGX mainboard and Catalist)
Helping clients understand and address compliance risks and requirements under the Singapore Exchange Limited’s (SGX) Mainboard and Catalist Listing Rules and other relevant statutory requirements, including the Singapore Companies Act, Securities and Future Act, Singapore Code of Take-Overs and Mergers, Collective Investment Scheme as well as the Seasoning Framework and Exempt Bond Issuer Framework.
We aim to support clients in relation to:
- Due diligence exercises for initial public offerings (IPOs)
- Due diligence for reverse takeovers (RTOs), general takeovers, share buyback, share consolidation, split, rights cum warrant issues, convertible bonds.
- Advising on devising whistle blowing policy, Interested Persons Transactions framework for companies listed on the SGX Mainboard and Catalist.
- Valuation of equity stakes, acquisition, disposal of investments, restructuring and/or transfer of assets.
- Review Corporate Governance Statement, Financial and Operations Review, and other sections of Annual Report.
- Resolve accounting issues and help with financial statements compliance with FRSs, preparation of quarterly and half yearly financial announcements.
Our achievements include:-
Acted as Company Secretary of SGX Mainboard and Catalist companies, some with more than 20 to 50 subsidiaries.
Scrutineer and Polling Agent for Mainboard and Catalist companies’ AGM/EGM. (including virtual shareholder meetings)
Incorporated more than 100 companies (private limited, foreign companies and companies limited by guarantee).
Legal due diligence for a mainboard listed furniture player with market capitalization of more than $100 million.
We have a team of highly qualified in-house experts:
- Fellow Chartered Secretary, Chartered Secretaries Institute of Singapore (CSIS);
- Fellow Chartered Accountant, Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA);
- Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of London;
- Member of the Singapore Institute of Directors;
- Qualified Listed Entity Director (QLED);
- Member of the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association.
Enterprise Risk Management
We provide enterprise risk management and fraud risk management services to MNCs and SGX listed companies.
We provide the following risk consulting services:
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Fraud Risk Management (FRM)
SGX Listing Manual Rule 1207 (10)
Opinion of the Board (with the concurrence of the AC) on adequacy of internal controls, addressing financial, operational & compliance risks (mandatory)
Code of Corporate Governance (2018)
Provision 9.2:
The Board requires and discloses in the company’s annual report that it has received assurance from:
(b) the CEO and the other key management personnel who are responsible, regarding the adequacy and effectiveness of the company’s risk management and internal control systems.
We helped clients who are listed on SGX Mainboard or Catalist, to prepare or review the company’s internal control system to ensure adequacy and compliance in accordance with the Code of Corporate Governance.
Risk is something that all business face in their daily dealings and coupled with increased regulation such as data protection, compliance risk has emerged as a key subject that directors need to manage well given this litigious landscape which see hefty penalties in the event of non-compliance. We are able to help review your processes and systems to ensure that the right controls are in place and operating effectively as they should be.
Additionally, as opposed to managing risk haphazardly, having a proper Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework in place allows the company to have a good read into the overall risk exposure and whether any of the potential issues falls out of the tolerable threshold so that appropriate actions can be taken. We are able to assist you with the establishment and maintenance of an ERM framework tailored to your organization with the right rigour to ensure that it is always kept up to date with the emerging risks that is pertinent to your industry.
Our achievements include:
Devised and implemented the ERM and FRM framework for a large SGX main board listed company with market capitalisation in excess of S$ 100 million.
Tasked to investigate whistle blowing complaints for SGX listed companies.
Successfully detected misappropriation by an employee of our client to the tune of $150,000 over a course of 5 years during an internal audit engagement.
Conducted in-house ERM and FRM workshops for our listed clients where we highlighted misalignment between departments’ operating objectives and the company overall strategic intent. Subsequent interventions by our team contributed to clear cascading goals and appropriate risk responses that were implemented to manage the client’s overall risk exposure.
We have a team of highly qualified in-house experts:
- Certified Internal Auditor, Institute of Internal Auditors (USA)
- Certified Risk Management Assurance, Institute of Internal Auditors (USA)
- Certified Fraud Examiner, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (USA)
- Certified Forensic Accountant, American Board of Forensic Accountants
- Registered Forensic Investigator, American Board of Forensic Accountants
- COSO Enterprise Risk Management Certificate
- Nanyang Enterprise Risk Management Programme
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