Corporate Secretary Services in Singapore

The company secretary is a key officer responsible for keeping your company on the right side of the Companies Act. In practice that means preparing board and shareholder resolutions, maintaining the statutory registers, filing changes and annual returns with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), convening the Annual General Meeting (AGM), and advising the directors when a decision needs paperwork behind it.

It's an appointed statutory role rather than an admin job title. The secretary's name is on your ACRA record, and the quality of the work determines whether deadlines are met and filings hold up.

Yes. Under the Companies Act, every Singapore company must appoint a company secretary within six months of incorporation, the position can't stay vacant for more than six months, and the secretary must be ordinarily resident in Singapore. A sole director can't double as the company secretary.

That's why we bundle the secretarial engagement with incorporation: the appointment isn't optional, so it may as well be handled properly from the start.

Corporate secretarial services look identical on paper because the statutory duties are the same everywhere. The differences show up in practice:

• A named secretary you can reach, rather than a ticketing queue that discovers your AGM deadline after it has passed.
• Response time. Resolutions and filings often need same-week turnaround when a bank or investor is waiting. We respond within one business day.
• Published fees, listed by shareholder count with the S$60 ACRA annual return fee included, so routine work doesn't generate per-resolution invoices.
• Painless switching. We prepare the changeover paperwork and chase your outgoing provider for the records, so you don't have to.

ACRA deadlines are enforced with escalating consequences: late lodgement penalties on overdue annual returns, composition sums, and, for persistent breaches, enforcement action against directors personally. Companies that stop filing altogether can ultimately be struck off the register on ACRA's initiative, and directors of multiple struck-off companies face disqualification.

We wrote up the specifics in our guide to annual return late-filing penalties. If your filings are already behind, our Compliance Rescue service (S$200) reconstructs the missing resolutions and registers and brings the record straight. And if you're switching from an unresponsive provider, the switching guide shows how straightforward the handover is.