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Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting clients in achieving their strategies wherever they do business. We use our expertise and resources to help clients pursue opportunities and manage risk across emerging and developed markets around the world. We build lasting relationships to support clients as they adjust to changes in their markets and the regulatory landscape. Discipline, teamwork and agility enable us to help clients navigate important business challenges successfully.
Our focus is on consistently delivering integrated, global solutions, built on our strong local capability. This is why we take a team-driven, collaborative approach to all that we do for our clients.
Freshfields is a global law firm with a track record of successfully supporting the world’s leading national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and investors, as well as governments and their agencies. We work on groundbreaking and business-critical mandates for established organisations, as well as advise those just developing their business or beginning to operate in new markets.
Our 2,500 lawyers work worldwide through our network of 28 offices and alongside leading local firms. They combine their top-notch legal skills and judgement with an utter determination to find the best solution – no matter how demanding the timeframe or how complex the challenge.
Independent Audit is a specialist corporate governance consultancy. We are leading advisors in board effectiveness review and also support boards and audit committees through assessments of the effectiveness of internal audit, external audit and risk management. We have worked with more than 160 clients, including board reviews for more than 100. Many of these are from the FTSE350 (including 20 from the FTSE 100) but we have also worked with pension fund trustee boards, charities and public sector organisations.
Our online governance assessment tool, Thinking Board, provides an easy-to-use alternative approach. It can be used for internal self-assessment or as part of an externally-facilitated review, drawing on our experience and ensuring that all the angles are covered in a way that provokes fresh thinking.
Operating from 24 offices across Asia Pacific, EMEA and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice. We provide many of the world’s most important organisations with access to market-leading transactional, projects and dispute resolution legal advice, combined with expertise in a number of global industry sectors, including energy, natural resources, infrastructure and financial services.
Slaughter and May is a leading international law firm with a worldwide corporate, commercial and financing practice. We provide our clients with a professional service of the highest calibre, combining technical excellence with commercial awareness and a practical constructive approach to legal issues. Central to our culture is the priority that we place on the individual needs of our clients. We advise more FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies than any other law firm.
We provide a cross-jurisdictional legal service that genuinely reflects what ‘global’ means for our clients.We work with market leading firms from around the world as a single united team. We share with these firms a culture of excellence and an absolute commitment to making the difference for our clients.
Computershare is a global market leader in transfer agency and share registration, employee equity plans, proxy solicitation and stakeholder communications.
The unparalleled expertise of our people, our continued investment in technology, our excellent customer service and our geographical spread mean that we have market leading offerings across the diverse range of our businesses.
Many of the world’s leading organisations use us to streamline and maximise the value of relationships with their investors, employees, creditors and customers. In the UK alone, Computershare has over 800 registry clients.
Computershare is represented in all major financial markets and has over 12,000 employees worldwide.
With over 50 years’ experience in share registration, employee benefits and retail investment services; Equiniti is the UK’s undisputed market leader.
We act as registrar for around 700 companies of all sizes including around 50 per cent of the FTSE 100. Equiniti offers unrivalled expertise and is committed to bringing you the very best possible service now and in the future. We have a strong belief in creating longstanding partnerships to meet and exceed your expectations.
Thanks to our extensive expertise, you can be sure we will manage your register and employee plans efficiently and effectively.
Globalisation can mean an increasing number of headaches for the General Counsel or Company Secretary. With operations in more than 75 countries, TMF Group is the global expert that understands local legal administrative needs.
TMF can provide all your compliance needs across multiple jurisdictions, for example by:
Incorporation and registration of legal entities
Reviewing and preparing corporate legal documents
Maintaining statutory records
Preparing and filing statutory returns
Organising and attending Board and shareholder meetings
Liaising with your local legal and tax advisors
Acting as a local process agent
Supporting group reorganisations and legal entity rationalisation
Pre and post flotation support and corporate governance reviews
Global reach, local knowledge: helping you do business seamlessly across borders.
We are Capita Asset Services, a division of Capita plc, a FTSE 100 company and the UK’s leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support solutions.
We firmly believe that one size doesn’t fit all, so our solutions are specifically designed around our clients’ needs. Whether it’s providing corporate, private client, treasury, debt or fund administration or shareholder and employee solutions, Capita Asset Services can help you manage and grow your business.
We have over 2,500 professional staff dedicated to making your life easier by delivering service excellence and creating efficiencies for your organisation. Our operations are based in the UK, Ireland, Jersey, mainland Europe and India, with representative offices in the US, Dubai and Asia – we have over 4,000 multinational and UK based clients and relationships.
Further information about our full range of services can be found at www.capitaassetservices.com.
Boardvantage leads the market in delivering paperless process for boards and committees. Directors and executives can eSign documents, approve minutes of meeting, share annotations, or utilise an array of other tools to manage their day-to-day work. Boardvantage also captures complex meeting process online. With dedicated workflows and support for last-minute updates, board secretaries can streamline meeting preparation and follow up, increasing productivity. Trusted by enterprises worldwide, including half of the Fortune 500, BoardVantage raises visibility and makes process outcomes more timely and predictable.
BWW brings together five of the market’s most well known, trusted consultants to form an independent agency focussing 100% on the recruitment of company secretarial staff. The BWW team offers the most knowledgeable resource you can hope to find in this niche area of recruitment. We have advised the market for over 20 years, and many individuals and companies rely on our in depth expertise.
Merrill Corporation provides the world’s leading financial, legal and corporate professionals with a suite of advanced services and secure web-based tools to gather, organise and manage confidential and time-sensitive information in relation to compliance, corporate transactions and investor communications.
Merrill understands the business lifecycle and we have developed global document and communication solutions over a period of more than 40 years to actively support each stage of a business’s development. Our client-focused services include virtual data rooms (VDRs), compliance filing, financial communication and security printing.
Thomson Reuters Accelus is a comprehensive suite of solutions specifically built to address the governance, risk and compliance challenges faced by the boardroom, and their legal, compliance, audit, and risk management professionals. Empower strategic decision-making with BoardLink, a secure, easy-to-use board solution that enhances communication and improves board performance.
BoardLink is a Web-based portal with an optional iPad app that allows company secretaries and board members to communicate effectively in a secure environment.
BoardLink makes board pack compilation and distribution much easier for company secretaries. With an intuitive, streamlined interface and centralised archive, BoardLink organises and clarifies information for company secretaries and board members so they can focus on the business.
Over 2,500 clients and 82,000 directors, executives and administrators in 45 countries rely on Diligent (NZX: DIL) to speed and simplify how board materials are produced, delivered, reviewed and voted on. Serving almost one-third of the Fortune 1000, we provide the world’s most widely used board portal via iPad, Windows devices and browsers. Diligent has pioneered ease of use, stringent security, and superior training and support since 2001.
We are a small, niche market recruiter. We recruit Company Secretaries, Governance and Compliance people and that’s all we do. Covering all levels of this specialist market for both temporary and permanent positions, throughout the UK and internationally, solid relationships are core to our business and have been built over decades. We don’t take these relationships for granted and so work with people throughout their careers, taking pride in going the extra mile every time
White & Black Legal LLP is a specialist technology law firm with a dedicated Data Protection and Privacy Unit which sits at the heart of our Commercial & Technology practice. We provide commercial and regulatory advice on all aspects of UK and EU data protection, data security and privacy law. As a dedicated technology focused law firm, many of our clients are in the cloud computing, mobile apps, smart devices, software, online gaming and e-commerce sectors. We are also regularly consulted by companies outside the high-tech sector for whom data protection and other IT related legal matters are business critical.