Company Secretary & Corporate Secretarial Services in Singapore

Required by the Singapore Company Act Section 171, the business owner has the responsibility to ensure the appointment of a Company Secretary in Singapore within 6 months from the date of their new entity incorporation.

The Company Secretary in Singapore is the compliance officer responsible for the company’s administration on areas such as keeping the company register, ensuring entity’s statutory and compliance requirements, advise Board of Directors about their legal responsibilities, etc. in a timely and efficient manner. The Company Secretary must be a natural person who is a local resident of Singapore. A successful Company Secretary has keen eyes to detail, dedicated and meticulous, is well versed with the knowledge of the changing business environment as well as the latest legislation development, to be able to provide the advice effectively.

At Bestar, we provide a full spectrum of corporate secretarial services in Singapore to assist our valued clients in fulfilling their business statutory compliance requirements so as to maintain its good legal standing.  We are the trusted partner to assist your every need on corporate secretarial services in Singapore.

Our highly experienced and helpful company secretarial services team handle any queries that you may have in relation to corporate secretarial services in Singapore.  We will walk you through every step from incorporating your new company, appointment of your company officers, maintenance of company register and records, drafting of director resolutions, drafting and amendments of company constitution, share agreement, share, and capital matters, keeping tab of the statutory filing due dates, preparing of the Annual General Meeting documentation, filing of Annual Return and XBRL to ACRA (Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority), ensuring your entity’s compliance with laws& regulations, etc. We have the local company secretarial expertise and knowledge which made us the partner of choice for many of our clients from multi-national corporations to small-medium enterprises.

Our holistic company secretarial services also encompass other supporting services to ease our valued clients from administrative hassle and minute matters so as to focus on more important business decision – ordering and safe custody of company rubber stamp and common seal, arrangement of corporate bank accounts opening with local banks, registered office address service which includes mails collection, mails scanning, mails re-directing and email reminders on emails received, and services to closing down/striking off of company in Singapore.

Our comprehensive services include:

• • • Incorporation of public and privately-owned companies or businesses
    • Registration of Singapore Branch and Representative Offices [Registering of foreign companies]
    • Provision of named company secretary service
    • Provision of nominee chiefs service
    • Provision of local nominee agents service [Provision of branch’s agent]
    • Provision of registered office addresses and correspondence addresses
    • Maintenance of statutory registers and corporate records
    • Assistance and arrangement of corporate bank account opening
    • Share buy-back
    • Conversion of share capital currency
    • Allotment of shares
    • Transfer of shares
    • Share capital reduction
    • Short-Form Amalgamation
    • Share capitalisation
    • The Provision of initial accounting matters for holding the first board meeting and shareholders’ meeting
    • The Management of board and investor or shareholder Meetings
    • Attendance and minutes-recording at the board and shareholders’ meetings
    • The readiness of the board and shareholders’ resolutions or goals
    • Preparation and filing of annual returns with the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA)
    • Advice and assistance with striking-off application and members’ voluntary liquidation of companies
    • De-registration of Singapore branch
    • Other corporate secretarial services
    • Guidance and utilization of employment and residency passes, dependant passes, and permanent residency
    • Employment pass/permit/visa applications, appeals, renewals, and cancellations