Board Evaluation

 To support you with your regular Board meetings, we can assist you by:

• Preparing and sending invitations for board meetings during a year.
• Collecting and review of board material to ensure correct timing and clarity for board members.
• Attending board meetings and taking minutes
• Drafting minutes and circulation of draft minutes.
• Finalising minutes together with the chair.

To evaluate the effectiveness of your board, our team can support you by:

• Developing, preparing and agreeing with you a questionnaire with relevant questions to review the effectiveness of the board.
• Sending out the questionnaires to the directors.
• Going through the questions with each of the directors to understand the work of the board and concerns each individual director might have.
• Reviewing of responses provided by directors and identify potential issues with respect of the effectiveness of the work of the board with a focus on transparency, effective information flow, roles and responsibilities and flagging identified potential issues.
• Discussing recommendations with chair of the board.

Our  team is experienced in supporting AIM listed companies. We’ve worked with a variety of different businesses across a range of sectors. 

Our legal support for AIM listed companies includes:

• Reviewing, identifying and agreeing key legal, regulatory and operational requirements of your company from a corporate governance perspective.
• Reviewing documentation and discussion with you or your contact responsible for corporate legal matters in particular about board responsibilities for legal/regulatory/operational requirements and about delegation within the company.
• Reviewing the responses provided by you to ensure they are in line with key principles of Corporate Governance with a focus on transparency, effective information flow, roles and responsibilities, highlighting where this is not the case and providing you with short written report with recommendations as how to enhance structural effectiveness.
• Developing, preparing, and agreeing with you corporate governance frameworks and principles based on the recommendations in line with what has to be published on your website in accordance with rule 26 of the AIM rules including responsibilities of the members of the board of directors and details of any committees of the board of directors and their responsibilities.

Our services cover the legal technicalities that underpin corporate decisions, by drafting the necessary paperwork to ensure that businesses comply with their statutory requirements and function legally.

These services include:

• Companies House filings
• Drafting board and shareholder minutes and resolutions
• Reconstituting and maintaining statutory registers
• Acting as registered office

It’s like building a house. You have an idea of what you want, but you need advisors to assess the structure, comply with buildings regulations and ensure the property doesn’t collapse. Our CoSec team are like those advisors. We establish the bureaucratic scaffolding necessary for decisions to function legally and complicitly and recommend courses of proceedings to meet specified goals.