What CoSec Partners does

CoSec Partners Pty Ltd is an Australian corporate secretarial firm. It registers companies with ASIC, prepares trust and SMSF deeds, and acts as registered agent for companies after they are formed. Most of its work comes from accounting and legal firms acting for their own clients.

Company formation

• Proprietary company (Pty Ltd), registered with ASIC with a constitution, officeholder consents, share certificates and a full company register. Orders received before 2pm Adelaide time are usually registered the same business day.
• Public company limited by shares, and public company limited by guarantee for not-for-profit and membership bodies.
• SMSF trustee company, a special purpose company set up to act as trustee of a self managed super fund.
• Aged shelf companies, already registered and ready to transfer to the client. Available companies and their prices are shown when ordering online or through Claude.
• Company name availability checks before ordering, at no charge.

Trust and SMSF deeds

• Discretionary (family), unit and hybrid trust deeds. Every deed is individually prepared, then reviewed and signed off by Key Legal, an independent legal practice.
• SMSF establishment deed, and SMSF bare trust deed for limited recourse borrowing arrangements.
• Deeds of variation for discretionary and unit trusts, including Bamford amendments, foreign persons exclusions and changes of trustee or appointor ($418), and for SMSFs ($418). Deeds of confirmation for lost trust deeds ($814). All ordered online or through Claude.
• Trust stamping where a state revenue office requires it.

Ongoing ASIC compliance and corporate secretarial

• Registered agent service. CoSec receives each annual statement, checks the company details, pays the review fee, arranges the solvency resolution and handles ASIC correspondence.
• White Label CAS360. CoSec runs BGL's CAS360 compliance software under an accounting firm's own brand, either working behind the firm's team or dealing with the firm's clients under the firm's name.
• Flexible ad hoc work for firms that keep their own registered agent status and send individual jobs, each quoted before work starts.
• Changes to officeholders, shareholders, addresses and share structures, company name changes, constitution adoption and amendment, share registry, register reconstruction and voluntary deregistration.

Address, officer and business registrations

• Registered office and virtual office address services from one staffed address, 232 Unley Road, Unley SA 5061. The address can serve companies registered in any state.
• Resident director services for foreign-owned Australian companies, quoted per engagement.
• ABN and TFN registration, with GST and PAYG withholding registration, and business name registration for one or three years.
• Foreign company registration (ARBN) and local agent services.

For foreign companies that need broader help establishing a business in Australia, including accounting, CoSec Partners works alongside its sister firm ABN Australia. The two are separate businesses under common ownership.

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