We have experience in administering various corporate vehicles for our clients ranging from limited liability partnerships, limited duration and guarantee companies, and private trust companies, Special Purpose Vehicles and other more technically intensive corporate structures.

Our qualified chartered secretaries have been providing corporate administration and resident representative services.

• Preparation, attending and minute taking for Annual Meeting
• Preparation, attending and minute taking for board, committee meetings and shareholder meetings
• Routine and non-routine company secretarial services for private, public and other types of companies
• Interim/secondment services – We can provide Company Secretaries at all levels to undertake duties for short period of time

Accounting is at the centre of everything that anyone does. We offer accounting, tax and payroll services under one roof, with specialists working in their respective elements.

Accounting Services

• Bookkeeping – including periodical reporting, year-end accounting
• Preparation of Management Account – depending on periodicity
• Preparation of Annual Financial Statement
• Liaising with auditors
• Filing of the Audited Financial Statement
• Preparation of budgeted accounts and cashflow forecast
• Review of external accounting records

Tax Services

• Preparation or review of corporate and personal tax returns
• Assistance with tax authority enquiries, analysis and assistance with regard to tax assessments
• Preparation of TDS Certificates, filing of TDS Voucher and annual TDS return

VAT Services

• Assistance with filing of VAT registration documents
• Preparation or review of VAT returns
• Assistance with VAT authority enquiries

Payroll Services

• Computation and production of payroll
• Management of withholding obligations and payments to relevant authority
• Provision of secure payslips
• Preparation of Statement of Emoluments
• Monthly and annual filing of returns

We aim at providing our clients with Compliance related services, tailor made to suit their specific requirements and thus ensuring that they meet their legal obligations with the regulator and respective authority. Our compliance consultants are qualified and innovative professionals with relevant experience in the field of compliance and regulation. In addition, we will provide compliance advice on the prevention of financial crime, the adoption of Anti-Money Laundering processes and measures for combating the financing of terrorism.

ANEX can provide assistance at any stage of a business cycle from the licence application process onwards.

Please find below a non-exhaustive list of our compliance/legal services:

Screening

Also known as background searches on prospective clients, partners or investors whether they are individuals, bodies corporate and their officers using global database which covers different categories of hits such as PEP list, sanction lists, adverse media, enforcement list, amongst others.

We can also provide country by country reports that will give you a better understanding of the money laundering risks posed by the geographical location of your client, their business, or the entry/exit point of any international transaction. The country reports include the FATF status, sanctions, US Department of State Money Laundering assessment, the economy, the investment climate.

Drafting and Review of Compliance/Legal documents

ANEX can assist with the drafting or review and implementation of the following:

• Compliance manuals, protocols, monitoring plans, procedures, policies, and checklists
• Constitution/Memorandum of Association
• Private Placement Memorandum
• Investment Management Agreement/Investment Advisory Agreement
• Corporate Governance framework
• Other related agreements

Corporate Health Checks

• Checks to ensure that the client is meeting the statutory obligations and regulatory requirements
• Review of Corporate Governance strategy
• Review of the existing internal policies/systems in place to counter money laundering and terrorism financing
• Review of our clients’ current in-house/investee legal entity management system and provide guidance on best practice, offer advice and provide support
• Recommendation on the adequacy/shortcomings of internal controls and other procedures implemented
• Sampling bank transaction review
• At investee level to ensure compliance with constitutive documents and meeting obligations

FATCA/CRS

FATCA/CRS rely heavily on local Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer requirements, and on self-certification by account holders. As such, ANEX can provide the following:

• FATCA/CRS classification
• Drafting of the relevant forms
• Due Diligence on the reportable persons
• XML format for reporting