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Corporate Governance

How decisions in the company are taken, authorised and recorded.

How decisions in the company are taken, authorised and recorded. Board and shareholder processes, statutory registers and filings, constitutional documents, and the internal frameworks that determine who can commit the company to what.

Done properly, this is invisible. Done badly, it surfaces during a funding round or an acquisition, at the worst possible moment.

What’s included

  • Board and shareholder meetings, notices and resolutions
  • Minutes, statutory registers and filings
  • Entity structuring and constitutional documents
  • Shareholders' agreements
  • Delegation of authority and internal approval limits
  • Guidance on directors' duties

How it runs

  1. Take stock

    We establish what exists: registers, minutes, filings and the constitutional documents behind them.

  2. Close the gaps

    Missing records are reconstructed where they can be and noted where they cannot, so the position is known.

  3. Run the calendar

    Meetings, resolutions and filings happen on time from there, with the record written as they go.

Common questions

We are pre-revenue. Does governance matter yet?

It matters most in the year before a raise, because that is when someone else reads the record. Building it as you go costs far less than reconstructing it under diligence.

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A 30-minute conversation is usually enough to establish where you stand and what it will take.

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