Get a Company Secretary in Singapore

At East river, we protect you from the hassle of changing Corporate Secretaries. You get two experts assigned to your company: one in charge and another one to back him up. If your dedicated Secretary takes a vacation, gets sick, or resigns, the second one takes over instantly and smoothly.

We take care of all the necessary documents: prepare standard papers for AGMs, process annual returns, support changes in your company with resolutions and update the necessary registers. We only need you to update us when the change has happened so we can start the flow and send you the documents ready for e-sign.

Often a business requires a lot of changes, especially if you’re just figuring out your company structure or going through a transformation period. Paying for each resolution would be costly, so we came up with a subscription plan. For S$300 a year, you can upgrade to Unlimited Corporate Secretary. This package includes all and any resolutions you might need, so no more extra charges.

If you feel like your paperwork right now is out of shape, that’s ok: it’s our job to make sure everything is in order. Once you switch to East river, we guarantee that each document gets stored in a relevant folder easy for you to retrieve and share. No more digging papers out of messy email threads or clogged databases.

ACRA fines companies that miss filing deadlines or make mistakes in the documents. We’ve automated standard processes to manage these risks: the AI updates deadlines and fills out forms, so you don’t have to worry about human errors.

East river serves all kinds of businesses registered in Singapore: private limited companies, general, limited, and limited liability partnerships. If you have a Sole Proprietorship and want to switch, we’ll help you with the process. We work with all industries, including the businesses that need licensing.

East river certified Corporate Secretaries are self-sufficient. They track deadlines and set tasks to themselves, ensuring your compliance with the law. East river does both: produces documents and files them to the government bodies, so zero support from your staff is needed.

You need to let us know when you’ve initiated changes in your company: got a new registered address, replaced directors, officers or shareholders or decided you want a new name for the company. Just send us a message in the chat — we’ll prepare the documents, send them to you and you sign them electronically with a tap of your finger.

The go-to option is our in-app chat. It’s faster than emails and you can ask questions on the go. You can also use the web version of the service. However, our communication does not have to be just that — we can arrange calls or meet up if that’s more convenient for you.

Send us your records in whichever format you have them. Drop your files in our app, store them in a cloud or email to our experts — we’ll take care of the rest.

The corporate secretary is an officer every Singapore company must have. Their job is to make sure company paperwork is in order, on time, and in compliance with the law. This critical role requires various certifications and involves a lot of responsibility.

If you like. First, you need to have all the qualifications of a Corporate Secretary plus 5 years of experience. Second, you have to be a Singapore citizen, or a permanent resident, or an EntrePass holder. Finally, you can’t be both the only director and the Corporate Secretary.

No, these are two different roles in the company. Your Corporate Secretary does not receive the director status. However, if the same person wants to be both, Singapore law allows it. In this case, there must be other directors — a single director can’t be a Corporate Secretary, too.

You can hire a Corporate Secretary as your employee or outsource this service. Often a company does not have enough secretarial tasks for a full in-house job. When you entrust this role to East river, you don’t have to pay a salary and associated taxes. The expense is limited to the package you choose.

Company secretary duties and functions are to take care of all the necessary documents required by law. For example, issuing company resolutions, managing regulatory filings and maintaining company books. It is their job to process every decision and every change your business goes through and report to ACRA accordingly.

Only really big companies need an in-house corporate secretary – because in a small one the officer simply does not have much to do. Unless there are constant changes to the company’s top management, constitution, business activities, and shareholders, the corporate secretary only is only busy preparing for the Annual General Meeting and filing the Annual Return once a year. If that is your case, you can follow the example of most small and medium-sized companies in Singapore and outsource the secretary.

First, a Corporate Secretary tracks changes in your company and reports to ACRA. Whenever you change directors, auditors, secretaries, shareholders, your share capital or the company name they send a notice. Then there are several registers they have to maintain, like the Register of Company Charges or the Register of Controllers. They are in charge of preparing and recording board minutes and annual general meetings, official correspondence and insurance.