Helen Harvey Client Director - Head of UK Company Secretarial

Helen joined the firm in February 2014 as a manager, having worked in law firms prior to this. She now leads the growing national UK Company Secretarial team which provides services to companies in numerous sectors and at various stages of their life cycle.

Experience 

Having worked in the company secretarial profession for over 25 years, Helen advises companies to ensure that they are compliant with UK legislation and to assist with changes to the structure of their business.

Her team provides annual company secretarial compliance, which includes maintenance of a company's statutory registers, preparation and filing of the annual confirmation statement at Companies House, provision of registered office and service address, together with general advice on the statutory obligations of a company.

Her team also undertakes company secretarial advisory work and advises on setting up a business in the UK, allotment, transfer and transmission of shares, share buy backs, capital reductions, shareholder and board meeting assistance and company health checks.

Work Highlights 

• Providing company secretarial services to a London-based financial services company that had outsourced its company secretarial function to the firm. The work involved maintaining statutory registers, undertaking compliance work for 800 companies and advising and preparing the legal documentation on various advisory issues, such as capital reductions, company formations and share restructuring.
• Assisting in the coordination of company secretarial services in nine countries for a US technology company. The company needed help to know when statutory filings were due in each country, so we implemented a software programme to track workflows to ensure no filings were missed.