Services - Equity Union

Our Services

Equity Union is available to provide any of the following services:

Pre-Incorporation/Incorporation/Post-Incorporation Support Services

Pre-incorporation/registration advisory services.
Entity formation and establishment, including registration of business names, cooperative societies, incorporated trustees, and incorporation of private and public companies.
Compliance services which include preparation and filing of the annual return; maintenance of statutory registers; processing of share transfers and allotments, deadline filing reminders, and access to other professional company secretarial services on an ad-hoc basis.
Processing of applications for industry-specific regulatory permits and licenses (such as IDCC, NOIC, CBN, Mining Cadastral office, NCC, NOTAP, NAICOM, FIRS, NEPZA, SON, NAFDAC).
Develop and manage the processes that ensure full and timely compliance with company and other legislations and regulations applicable to your client.
Monitor changes in relevant legislation and the regulatory environment, and take appropriate action required by such changes.

Entity rationalization and supporting you in managing changes as your business grows.
Sharing with you our experience of effective corporate governance and risk management. The chartered secretaries, solicitors and corporate governance professionals at Equity Union Limited have a wealth of experience with improving governance. A robust corporate governance framework can help improve the organisation and decision making in the company, ensuring that decisions are taken in the right way at the right level.
Due diligence and status check of local and foreign companies (potential partners)
Registration of non-residents in Nigeria due to property ownership and opening of accounts in Nigerian banks.
Registration of companies abroad

Company Secretaries & Support Services

Corporate governance audit.
Developing and managing the processes that ensure full and timely compliance with company and other legislations and regulations applicable to your company or other entity.
Keeping stakeholders informed of the corporate governance requirements on their offices or positions as provided in Companies and Allied Matters Act and other industry-specific legislations and regulations/codes;
Interfacing with stakeholders with a view to ensuring adequate and timely response to shareholder requests and tracking their benefits.
Organising, preparing agendas for, and taking minutes of meetings (including but not restricted to minutes of General Meetings, Board of Directors, and of other Statutory or Board Committees).
Dealing with correspondence and notices (including those to and from directors and shareholders) ordinarily required to be dealt with by the Company Secretary; collating information for use at board and other meetings; drawing-up resolutions, writing reports and ensuring decisions made are communicated to the relevant people.
Contributing to meeting discussions, as and when required, and advising members of the corporate governance implications of their policies.

Liaising with statutory regulators and advisers.
Keeping and maintaining the minute books and all other statutory registers, including the Register of past and present shareholders and shareholdings and debenture holders and debenture-holdings, the Register of charges on company’s assets, the Register of past and present directors, the Register of Directors’ interest in the Company’s shares and debentures.
Preparing and ensuring that all statutory returns to regulatory bodies e.g. CAC, CBN, NAICOM, DPR, SEC, etc.(including annual return/audited accounts, returns of changes in registered address and in the registered particulars of Directors, secretary and shareholders/debenture-holders, returns of charges on company’s assets, and of all special or extraordinary resolutions of the Company etc.) are made in a timely order. For instance, the governance and compliance requirements of a company newly listed on a public market can be extensive. Our experts are available to help establish the processes and procedures necessary to meet the required standards and promote best practice

Nominees Services

Agency and correspondent services where required in Nigeria by your entity (whether foreign, or local).
Custodial services – safekeeping of documents
Registrar’s services for non-quoted entities (private companies limited by shares, cooperatives).
Other administrative and secretarial duties as may be required.
Take care of the property of a third person and take over the administration.