Governance & Company Secretarial
Senior governance and company secretarial work, added where you need it.
For listed companies, private and PE-backed businesses, and Australian subsidiaries. We work alongside your Company Secretary, CFO or General Counsel, or step in where there is none.
Discuss additional governance capacity01 — The practice
Governance & Company Secretarial
The standing work of a well-run board.
Senior company secretarial supportOngoing or interim, at listed-company standard
Listed-company governanceListing Rules, disclosure, ASX engagement
Board and committee supportAgendas, attendance, minutes, follow-through
Governance frameworksCharters, delegations, policies
Annual governance calendarBoard and committee workplans for the year
Board papers and processPaper standards, templates, timing
Governance reviewsWhere you stand, and what to change first
Subsidiary governanceEntity compliance and local boards
Projects & Additional Capacity
For the periods when there is more senior governance work than your team can absorb, and not enough to justify another permanent hire.
Interim supportVacancies, leave, transitions
Transaction supportThe governance track of a deal, listing or restructure
Overflow supportReporting season, the AGM, peak periods
Governance upliftRedesign and implementation, not a report
Discrete assignmentsA single review, charter suite or calendar
Senior capacity for GCsAn experienced adviser inside your legal team
02 — Example engagements
An ASX-listed CFO who is also Company Secretary needs support through the AGM and half-year.
We run the notice of meeting, chair's script, proxy process and post-meeting announcements, then step back.
Additional capacity · 3–4 months
A General Counsel inherits governance with no dedicated Company Secretary.
A named adviser takes the company secretarial role for set days each month, reporting to the GC.
Ongoing
A PE-backed company's board has outgrown its processes before an exit.
We review, redesign and implement: calendar, charters, delegations and a paper standard buyers will expect to see.
Project · fixed scope
The Company Secretary resigns three weeks before a board meeting.
Interim cover that can prepare the papers, attend the meeting and brief the Chair, while you recruit.
Interim
An international group needs its Australian subsidiaries properly governed.
Local board administration, directors' duties briefings and entity compliance, reported to head office in its format.
Ongoing
“We don't need a new company secretary. We need one more senior one, for six months.”
The kind of brief Daymark is set up for. Ongoing, interim, project and peak-period arrangements are all available, and can change as your needs do.
03 — Arrangements
OngoingAgreed days each month
InterimFull or part time, for a set period
ProjectDefined scope and end date
Additional capacityPeak periods, called on as needed
Discrete assignmentA single deliverable
Scope and fees are agreed in advance, in writing.
01
A first conversation
A short call, without charge, to understand the situation. We check for conflicts first.
02
Scope and fee letter
What we will do, who will do it, and what it will cost. In writing, before we start.
03
Start
Once the scope is agreed and conflict checks are complete.
Need more senior governance capacity?
Tell us what is coming up and where the pressure is. We will tell you plainly how we would help, and what it would cost.