Services
A ONE-STOP-SHOP FOR ENTITY MANAGEMENT
Annual Corporate Compliance
We take on all routine activities, including registered agent, AGMs and filings based on a customized annual compliance calendar. We also provide resident director services where required.
See the full list of services
Event-Driven Services
We handle all corporate milestones — from director and officer changes, incorporations and dissolutions, to mergers and acquisitions, share transfers, registrations, meeting resolutions and more.
See the full list of services
Corporate Health Checks
We provide audit services to review a client’s entity portfolio of entities and suggest advise on remediation where necessary.
Discuss your audit with an expert
Regulatory Horizon Scanning
From our six regional hubs, our multilingual teams maintain a comprehensive regulatory database covering legal entity requirements in 180+ jurisdictions globally.
Special
Projects
We design and implement special projects such as legal entity rationalization programs and corporate governance due diligence.
See the full list of services
Subsidiary Board Advisory
We provide corporate governance advisory services for subsidiaries, including director training and entity policy development, helping your stakeholders act confidently, consistently and in line with regulatory requirements.
A ONE-STOP-SHOP FOR ENTITY MANAGEMENT
Annual Corporate Compliance
We take on all routine activities, including registered agent, AGMs and filings based on a customized annual compliance calendar. We also provide resident director services where required.
See the full list of services
Event-Driven Services
We handle all corporate milestones — from director and officer changes, incorporations and dissolutions, to mergers and acquisitions, share transfers, registrations, meeting resolutions and more.
See the full list of services
Corporate Health Checks
We provide audit services to review a client’s entity portfolio of entities and suggest advise on remediation where necessary.
Discuss your audit with an expert
Regulatory Horizon Scanning
From our six regional hubs, our multilingual teams maintain a comprehensive regulatory database covering legal entity requirements in 180+ jurisdictions globally.
Special Projects
We design and implement special projects such as legal entity rationalization programs and corporate governance due diligence.
See the full list of services
Subsidiary Board Advisory
We provide corporate governance advisory services for subsidiaries, including director training and entity policy development, helping your stakeholders act confidently, consistently and in line with regulatory requirements.
What does annual corporate compliance entail?
Our success stories
Entity management services for a US-based international mining company
The client needed a partner who could manage their legal entities in Africa year on year. The client wanted to explore a cost-effective solution, as opposed to hiring permanent resources in-house, while still retaining visibility of ongoing work.
Solution
Annual corporate compliance activities on an ongoing basis
Key factors
Odyssey set up a team based out of our US and Mauritius offices to cover all requirements on- and offshore.
The team leveraged our extensive internal knowledge database to create a comprehensive corporate compliance calendar covering all obligations across relevant African jurisdictions.Â
At the client’s request, Odyssey utilized their existing entity management tech to avoid any disruption.
Outcomes
Odyssey now handles all routine corporate secretarial activities for these entities along with special events.
Internal stakeholders (e.g. country managers and local legal teams) are fully engaged and actively take part in maintaining corporate compliance.
The client confirmed a 30% cost-savings compared to managing the work in-house.
Corporate health checks for a North America-based EPC company
The client, a global leader in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, had grown organically over several years but corporate secretarial management had failed to keep up. A new team had to take responsibility for hundreds of entities, including dozens for which they had little or no information and others where no annual maintenance had been performed for years.
Solution
Full corporate health check of all its entities outside North America (LATAM, EMEA & APAC).
Key factors
Odyssey deployed a senior team of lawyers across all its locations to conduct the audit.Â
Odyssey conducted a detailed review of the legal and compliance status of each entity, identified compliance issues for each entity, and produced a final audit report exceeding 200 pages that highlighted significant risks to the group and its officers.
Odyssey also developed a costed remediation plan to address compliance gaps.
Outcomes
The corporate health check provided the client with full visibility over the status and governance of its global entities, and reduced corporate and regulatory risks across multiple jurisdictions.
The client’s in-house corporate team was able to shift its focus from historical remediation to higher-value strategic work such as M&A.
Multi-jurisdiction entity dissolution project for a US-based technology company
The client, a U.S.-based technology company, undertook a review of its international corporate structure following an M&A transaction. As a result of the transaction, the group inherited several entities across Latin America that were no longer aligned with its operational structure and long-term strategy. Many of these entities were dormant or not operationally required, but remained legally active.
Solution
Full corporate dissolution project covering entities in several Latin American jurisdictions.
Key factors
Odyssey started by conducting a preliminary review of each entity to confirm their legal and corporate status, identify any outstanding compliance requirements and determine the appropriate dissolution process in each jurisdiction. This included collecting and reviewing corporate records, verifying status with local registries and identifying any outstanding obligations that needed to be remediated prior to liquidation.
Odyssey coordinated the implementation of the dissolution process across the various jurisdictions. Our team prepared and filed the documentation required to remedy compliance issues, carried out all actions required for liquidation, while coordinating closely with the client’s stakeholders throughout the process.
Odyssey also provided consolidated reporting and regular project updates, giving the client full visibility over progress across all jurisdictions.
Outcomes
The coordinated approach enabled the client to wind down the entities that were not operationally required in an efficient manner.
The client successfully simplified its corporate structure in Latin America and reduced the administrative burden and compliance risks associated with maintaining inactive entities.