Recent amendments to the Companies Acts have greatly increased the role and responsibilities of company secretaries and directors. Non-compliance can result in heavy fines and as a result, more companies are turning to professional help in dealing with their company secretarial requirements.
Goodbody Secretarial Limited (GSL) provides a range of services such as preparing AGM documentation, reminding clients when annual returns are due, preparing and filing same on their behalf, preparing board resolutions relating to changes in directors, transfers of shares etc. and preparing the requisite statutory forms for filing in the Companies Registration Office.
We ensure that our clients’ various company registers are maintained and updated in accordance with information provided to us. We also monitor any change in the Irish Companies Acts on behalf of our clients to ensure that they are advised of any changes which may affect their company.
We also provide a registered office facility, providing a registered address and forwarding on correspondence received for the client. GSL provides secretarial services to many foreign companies which have registered a branch in Ireland, acting as the person in the State authorised to accept service of process and as the person in the State responsible for ensuring compliance with the European Communities (Branch Disclosures) Regulations, 1993.