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Our accounting advisory team help businesses meet their complex financial reporting requirements. The team can support in applying new financial reporting standards, IFRS/ US GAAP conversions, financial statement preparation, consolidation and more.

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Outsourcing the financial reporting function is a growing trend among middle market and startup companies, as it provides a cost-effective way to improve the finance and accounting function. Our team can help with financial statement preparation, consolidation and technical on-call advisory.

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Corporate Secretarial Services

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The Singapore Companies Act mandates that every company must appoint a company secretary. The role requires in-depth knowledge of both business and regulatory environment to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and to advise on corporate governance and best practices. Failure to meet statutory obligations can have severe legal, reputational and financial ramifications.

Partnering with experienced, qualified and knowledgeable company secretary in Singapore will give you complete confidence that you are meeting all your corporate obligations.

Why outsource your company secretary services?

As with requirements for other business-critical functions such as accounting and tax, Singapore’s requirements for company secretaries are many and complex. The pressure of adapting to the ever-evolving schedule of corporate legislative requirements can be overwhelming.

Outsourcing your corporate secretarial functions to our Singapore-based team will relieve your in-house team of time consuming corporate compliance activities. This means you can:

Ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements
Streamline your operations
Reduce administrative burden

Ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements

Access our team of professionals with specialist knowledge on corporate governance and compliance with company law and regulations.
Streamline your operations

Benefit from an extensive range of corporate services with a single point of contact.
Reduce administrative burden

Free up your resources to focus on strategic activities, growth and profitability.

How we help

Our goal is to help businesses to succeed in the long term and meet the evolving compliance requirements in Singapore. We provide value-added services and solutions that are flexible and tailored to your needs, and more importantly, that solve your problems.

Our Corporate Secretarial Services team offer the full suite of company secretarial services to assist businesses establish a presence in Singapore, from top-tier multinationals to small and medium enterprises, across a wide range of industries, and assist them comply with all the ongoing governance and regulatory requirements.

Entity creation

Businesses can establish a presence by setting-up various business vehicles available in Singapore. These business vehicles have different characteristics and regulatory obligations.

We can help by:

Advising on the characteristics and regulatory obligations of the different business vehicles
Incorporating companies, registering foreign companies and transferring registration of foreign corporate entities in accordance with the Singapore Companies Act
Incorporating variable capital companies in accordance with the Singapore Variable Capital Companies Act
Registering limited liability partnerships in accordance with the Singapore Limited Liability Partnerships Act
Registering limited partnerships in accordance with the Singapore Limited Partnerships Act
Providing named company secretary
Providing registered office and mail forwarding services

Governance and regulatory compliance reporting

Stay compliant with every aspect of business regulations in Singapore.

We can help by:

Advising on legal entity compliance obligations
Managing statutory and regulatory compliance and reporting obligations
Maintaining statutory registers, minutes and company records
Advising on statutory and regulatory requirements for corporate actions
Assisting with the implementation of corporate actions
Preparing board and shareholders’ resolutions
Attending and preparing minutes for board and shareholder meetings
Advising on, preparing and lodging annual returns and other requisite filings with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA)

Striking off an entity

Closing down your business can be unfortunate, but it does not have to be difficult. We offer advice and assistance to help you effectively manage the company cessation process.

We can help by:

Advising on pre-dissolution and restructuring
Striking off solvent and dormant entities

Other corporate secretarial services

We also offer a range of ad-hoc services including

Performing health checks on statutory records and recommending remediation actions
Facilitating the legalisation of corporate documents
Extracting of company information from ACRA

Corporate actions

Our experienced and qualified corporate secretarial professionals are able to assist you with corporate actions including:

Change of name
Allotment of shares
Transfer of shares
Reduction of share capital
Repurchase of shares (share buy-back)
Conversion of shares
Redenomination of shares
Short-form amalgamation
Alteration of constitution
Issue and redemption of preference shares
Creation, variation and satisfaction of charges

Comprehensive outsourced compliance solutions

In addition to corporate secretarial services, we can work together with you to outsource your business functions to help you focus on what you do best. This will aid in streamlining operations, potentially reducing overheads, and staying in compliance with Singapore's continually evolving regulatory landscape.

We can help by:

Why Grant Thornton

Our deep local expertise makes us the chosen partner of major multinationals, small private firms and everything in between.

An experienced team
Dedicated service
Value adding

An experienced team

Our team has experience advising multinational clients across different industries and can provide solutions that make sense for your business.
Dedicated service

We assign you a dedicated company secretary. This single point of contact will ensure your exact needs are understood and complex compliance requirements can be met.
Value adding

Our experts are invested in understanding our clients’ unique requirements and supporting them to achieve their goals and objectives. We are committed to ensuring that our clients receive the value they are looking for.