Trusted corporate compliance in Asia
Corporate secretarial services are essential for ensuring compliance, governance, and continuity across Asia’s complex regulatory landscape. Companies face jurisdiction-specific requirements for filings, record-keeping, and entity management—making local expertise critical.
Dezan Shira & Associates delivers end-to-end corporate secretarial support, helping businesses maintain good standing and meet governance obligations across borders. We support entity setup, ongoing compliance, and coordination across multiple markets, with particular value for firms managing regional subsidiaries or joint ventures.
Our integrated presence across Asia allows us to act as an extension of your internal governance team—ensuring accuracy, transparency, and consistency in your operations.
Corporate Secretarial Services: Our Advantage
Deep sector capability across Asia
Our on-the-ground teams bring jurisdiction-specific expertise to ensure your entity stays compliant across Asia’s evolving regulatory landscape.
Tailored and adaptable to your business
We align secretarial support with your corporate structure, governance model, and internal workflows—scaling with your regional and global needs.
Reliable and efficient corporate secretarial
We deliver accurate, timely, and compliant entity management through streamlined processes and dedicated support across multiple jurisdictions.
How We Can Help Your Business
Setting up a company in another country is not easy. Rules, timeframes, languages, and costs vary across countries—and even between cities or regions. Dezan Shira & Associates is one of Asia’s leading specialists in cross-border company setup and structuring, with formation services across China, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East.
We also help companies regularly review their entity structures and administrative and legal processes to ensure compliance with updated overseas requirements. This service is available for both single and multiple entities. In multi-entity cases, we provide a summary report that includes an overview, operational snapshot, and entity breakdowns.
- Company formation across 25+ jurisdictions
- Cross-border entity structure planning
- Single or multi-entity compliance reviews
- Summary reporting on group structures and governance
Our entity health checks support fast-track onboarding and help companies align their corporate setup with recent regulatory changes. This solution is especially suited for SMEs looking to quickly assess and address compliance gaps.
We also offer a more in-depth entities review service, which evaluates the full legal registration status and related documentation for compliance across jurisdictions.
- Verification of public and statutory records
- Identification of changes requiring document updates
- In-depth compliance audits of shareholder details, ownership, filings, minutes, and more
- Updated documentation to reflect current legal and regulatory frameworks
Maintaining proper corporate filings, licenses, and records is critical to ensure legal standing, regulatory compliance, and internal risk management. Good record keeping not only protects against audit or litigation risk but also supports internal tracking of corporate value and growth.
We offer ongoing support to ensure your business stays ahead of deadlines and obligations across jurisdictions.
- Filing reminders and proactive deadline tracking
- Maintenance of statutory registers (shareholder agreements, capital contributions, articles of association)
- Company minute book upkeep and approvals management
- Shareholder documents (contribution certificates, shareholder lists, etc.)
- Compliance check reminders across tax, banking, FX, and customs
- Corporate information updates in jurisdiction-specific systems (e.g., China NECIP System)
When your business undergoes a major corporate event—such as a merger, funding change, or new partner relationship—verifying corporate status with official documentation becomes essential. This process can be complex, disruptive, and time-consuming.
Dezan Shira & Associates makes it simple. Our experts identify, retrieve, verify, and deliver documents across 40+ jurisdictions—accurately and efficiently.
- Certificates of good standing, incumbency, compliance, and disclosure
- Articles of association and formation documents
- Status and compliance checks on involved entities
- Consistent, multi-jurisdiction document retrieval and verification
Many jurisdictions require that companies maintain a registered office address and meet substance requirements—such as having a physical location, local personnel, or regular reporting—to legally operate there.
We help clients establish or maintain registered offices and provide substance compliance support. Where permitted, we can also offer our own offices for postal use, forwarding, or acting as a communication center.
- Registered office address setup and management
- Substance compliance support based on jurisdictional requirements
- Physical office sourcing via our global office brokerage service
- Mail handling and forwarding
- Use of local DSA offices as communication centers in applicable regions
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FAQs – Corporate Secretarial Services in Asia
Corporate secretarial services ensure that a company remains in good legal standing by managing statutory filings, maintaining proper records, and ensuring compliance with jurisdiction-specific governance requirements. In Asia’s highly fragmented regulatory environment, businesses must manage these obligations with precision to avoid penalties and reputational risk.
Corporate secretarial services are essential for:
- Foreign-invested enterprises
- Regional subsidiaries and holding structures
- Joint ventures and cross-border partnerships
- Companies operating in multiple Asian jurisdictions
These businesses benefit most from centralized compliance tracking and local execution.
Non-compliance can result in more than just fines. Businesses risk losing their legal standing, encountering delays in cross-border transactions, and facing reputational harm. For firms operating regionally, these issues can quickly compound across markets and lead to disruptions in daily operations or even difficulties with future fundraising and M&A activities.
We act as your outsourced compliance partner—maintaining statutory registers, managing filings, preparing governance documents, and liaising with authorities. Our integrated team ensures localized compliance while aligning with your global governance standards.
Our corporate health checks typically include:
- Verification of statutory records and public filings
- Review of incorporation and governance documents
- Identification of outdated or non-compliant elements
- Summary reporting across multiple entities (if applicable)
- Recommendations for corrective actions
These reviews support both onboarding and long-term compliance assurance.
Yes. We provide registered office addresses in jurisdictions where permitted and assist with meeting local substance requirements, such as maintaining physical presence or handling mail forwarding. This is especially relevant in jurisdictions where local presence is linked to tax residency or regulatory eligibility.
During mergers, restructurings, or regulatory due diligence, businesses are often required to submit formal proof of compliance and eligibility. Without a reliable process for retrieving certified documents—especially across multiple jurisdictions—this can delay transactions or trigger red flags. We retrieve, verify, and deliver legal documents across 40+ markets to eliminate these bottlenecks.
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