What legal registers must a company maintain?

Company law requires a company to prepare and maintain certain statutory registers, including: register of directors and secretary and a separate register of directors’ residential addresses register of members register of charges (if created prior to 6 April 2013) unless exempt, register of people with significant control (a PSC Register) These registers, also known as the company’s statutory books, must be kept either at the company’s registered office or at another specified address and (other than the register of director’s residential addresses) are available for public inspection on payment of a fee. The registers can be held in electronic form.

When do I use this document? for the legal due diligence for an investment transaction where the subject company is a start-up company or has a limited trading history as initial requests for the company to answer and provide supporting documents What are the key features? requests in tabular form, with the company’s answers to be inserted in the table requests covering 10 key subject areas, including: corporate contracts litigation and compliance assets intellectual property commercial property employees finance and insurance taxation business plan/forecasts What else do I need to know? In evaluating a start-up company, investors typically focus on: share capital: verifying the number of issued shares and shares reserved or granted as share options funding: understanding how the company has been financed, including loans from the founders or family members which may need to be converted to equity founder service contracts: investigating whether the founder(s) have service contracts, committing them to the business and including post-termination restrictive covenants and intellectual property protections intellectual property: checking that externally developed intellectual property is owned by the company business plan and projections: scrutinising the preparation and basis of the company’s business plan, forecasts and projections

Statutory Registers

Statutory registers comprising the legal registers which a private limited company is required to maintain and make available for inspection under company law.

This document also includes template registers for share allotments and share transfers, which companies commonly keep alongside their statutory records.

for a company’s statutory registers, also known as statutory books or company books.
for a private limited company.
for company registers which will be stored electronically.

What are the key features?

easy to complete statutory register template.
registers of:
- members (shareholders).
- share allotments.
- share transfers.
- directors.
- company secretary.
- directors’ residential addresses.
- charges.
- people with significant control (PSC Register).

What else do I need to know?

Companies Act 2006 requires a company to prepare and maintain certain statutory registers, including:

a register of directors and secretary and a separate register of directors’ residential addresses.
a register of members.
a register of charges (if created prior to 6 April 2013).
unless exempt, a register of people with significant control (a PSC Register).

These registers, often called the company’s statutory books, must be kept either at the company’s registered office or at another specified address.

Most of these registers can be inspected by the public on payment of a fee. The register of directors’ residential addresses is not available for public inspection.

The registers can be held in electronic form.

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When do I use this document?

for the legal due diligence for an investment transaction
where the subject company is a start-up company or has a limited trading history
as initial requests for the company to answer and provide supporting documents

What are the key features?

requests in tabular form, with the company’s answers to be inserted in the table
requests covering 10 key subject areas, including:
- corporate
- contracts
- litigation and compliance
- assets
- intellectual property
- commercial property
- employees
- finance and insurance
- taxation
- business plan/forecasts

What else do I need to know?

In evaluating a start-up company, investors typically focus on:

share capital: verifying the number of issued shares and shares reserved or granted as share options
funding: understanding how the company has been financed, including loans from the founders or family members which may need to be converted to equity
founder service contracts: investigating whether the founder(s) have service contracts, committing them to the business and including post-termination restrictive covenants and intellectual property protections
intellectual property: checking that externally developed intellectual property is owned by the company
business plan and projections: scrutinising the preparation and basis of the company’s business plan, forecasts and projections

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Statutory Registers

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What are the key features?

What else do I need to know?

When do I use this document?

What are the key features?

What else do I need to know?

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When do I use this document?

What are the key features?

What else do I need to know?

When do I use this document?

What are the key features?

What else do I need to know?

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