Overview
I am a Corporate Services Manager in Michelmores’ Corporate team and a Chartered Company Secretary specialising in company law, governance and company secretarial practice. Working closely with Caroline Bamford (Director of Corporate Services), I help ensure our portfolio of company secretarial clients receive services delivered to a high standard. Our team deals primarily with the formation and administration of companies, assisting with corporate governance and statutory compliance, and currently supports nearly 500 companies.
Having completed an LLM in Corporate Governance and Law, achieving Graduate membership of the Chartered Governance Institute in 2014 (I was subsequently elected to Associate membership in 2016), I worked in the company secretarial services team of a large professional services organisation for nine years. Before moving to Michelmores in June 2023, I managed a busy company secretarial team providing corporate compliance and entity management services to around 650 UK-registered entities. As well as maintaining statutory registers and making Companies House filings, I have experience co-ordinating and overseeing the company secretarial aspects of projects for clients, such as group re-organisations and putting in place group audit exemptions.
I also have experience providing company secretarial services to a varied portfolio of main market and AIM listed companies, particularly investment companies. I have advised clients on UK corporate governance and industry best practice, and ensured their compliance with the Listing Rules or AIM Rules, Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules and market abuse legislation. I have supported client boards through the annual board and committee meeting cycle, including attending and drafting minutes of board and committee meetings and AGMs, and project managed clients’ annual and half-yearly report processes.
Recent experience
Supporting the Corporate Services team’s portfolio of nearly 500 companies to ensure they are compliant with the company law reforms introduced by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, particularly the identity verification requirement for directors and persons with significant control introduced on 18 November 2025
Acting as company secretary for a London-based not-for-profit organisation which includes personal attendance at and drafting minutes of quarterly board meetings, as well as managing the company’s annual general meeting
Providing support to the board of directors of a private company with a shareholder base of approximately 3,000 in preparing for and delivering their annual general meeting
Co-ordinating and over-seeing projects to check the accuracy and completeness of the statutory registers, corporate records and Companies House filings of several clients from a wide range of sectors, including for some reviewing the health of their governance processes and procedures
Assistance with the review and rectification of the statutory registers of a family-run private company in preparation for the sale of their business
