Governance and advisory services

Substantive board director services to business clients, with real involvement in and understanding of the client's business, not a nominee arrangement. This strengthens governance and gives clients access to senior financial and operational expertise normally available only to larger corporates.

• —Direct board directorship with genuine engagement in strategy and decisions
• —Full onboarding and CDD before any directorship mandate begins
• —Documented engagement scope, agreed with the client board

High-quality administrative support to client boards, provided to support genuine governance activity and kept to the standard a regulated firm expects of its own records.

• —Preparation of board minutes, papers and resolutions
• —Maintenance of statutory registers
• —Co-ordination of board meeting logistics

Strategic and operational consulting advice across business strategy, organisational design and growth planning, with initial engagements focused on the technology sector, reflecting our founder's deepest network and expertise.

• —Business and operational strategy
• —Organisational design, hiring and human capital strategy
• —Process optimisation and sustainable growth planning

Acting, or arranging for another person to act, as trustee or nominee of an express bare trust, holding legal title on behalf of the beneficial owner. This service sits within ACSL's TCSP scope and is subject to the full rigour of our AML, CDD and ongoing monitoring framework, with enhanced due diligence applied as standard.

• —Maintenance of trust and ownership records
• —CDD on settlors, beneficiaries, protectors and beneficial owners, with MLRO approval required before commencement
• —Liaison with professional advisers on behalf of the trust, and ongoing AML and record-keeping controls