Company Compliance
Statutory Registers & Minutes
Companies are required to keep a defined set of registers and to record board and general meetings in minute books, kept at the registered office. Most companies discover the gap during a due diligence or a funding round, when the buyer asks for records that were never written up and cannot honestly be reconstructed after the fact.
What you get
- Register of members, directors, key managerial personnel and their shareholding
- Register of charges, contracts, and loans or investments made by the company
- Board and general meeting minutes drafted, numbered and bound within the prescribed time
- Notices, agendas and attendance sheets prepared for each meeting
- Share certificates issued and the share transfer register kept current
- Records maintained in a form that survives a due diligence request
FAQ
About statutory registers & minutes
Do these registers matter if nobody has ever asked for them?
They matter at exactly two moments: an inspection, and a transaction. An investor or an acquirer will ask for the minute book and the register of members early in diligence, and gaps there are treated as a governance red flag rather than as paperwork. Keeping them current takes minutes; reconstructing several years does not.