Corporate Governance Services
At Elemental, we provide specialist advisory services to organisations wanting to implement or enhance their corporate governance framework and practices. We partner with those with the most demanding standards and in heavily regulated sectors such as listed companies, financial services, member organisations and not-for-profits. We never forget that every client is different, and we always look to tailor our approach to your needs.
Why Elemental?
- We’re specialists – we are a specialist governance firm and we can help clients with even the most demanding requirements.
- Award-winning Service – Winner of CGI ‘Service Provider of the Year’ 2021 & 2022. Winner of ‘Governance Professional of the Year’ 2023.
- Our approach – we have the experience, tools and processes to get to the heart of client requirements quickly and efficiently.
What We Can Help With
Expert Governance Advisory
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Bespoke Governance Support– Governance Framework Review |
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Board and Committee Effectiveness Evaluation– Supporting internal reviews |
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Board Induction & Training– Director Training: Exec, Non-Exec, iNED |
Company Secretarial Support
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Meeting Support– Board |
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Annual Company Secretarial Support– Companies House Filings |
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Interim CoSec Support– Annual Compliance |
Who we work with
Our team have experience across a broad range of sectors built from working in-house and as advisors. We work with clients that value the importance of corporate governance, whether because of regulatory oversight or the needs of the organisation’s stakeholders. All our clients benefit from best practice and bespoke services. We have extensive experience in the following fields, please get in touch and we would be happy to share some case studies.
Banks
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Asset Managers
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Charities
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Member Organisations
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Royal Charter Bodies
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Public Listed Companies
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“My experience of Kate, over two companies now, is that her pragmatic approach balances strong governance with proportionality very effectively. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her”.
Natalie Ceeney (CBE)
Chair
Cash Access UK
“Elemental CoSec are dependable, professional and provide a first class service. I have known Nick since his legal days and did not hesitate in introducing him to a high profile Australian client needing UK cosec services and he has delivered a consistently superb service on and from his appointment.”
David Roberts,
Partner
CMS
“Kate has a solution-focused approach and draws on a wealth of experience of supporting different types of Boards and organisations to help us implement best practice.”
Cassie Smith
Head of Legal, Trust & Ethics
HDR UK
Further Information
Get in touch with the team and we would be happy to share our experience of helping other governance clients.
Meet Kate
Kate is Director of Governance at Elemental where her responsibilities include supervising, developing and growing the Governance team.
Kate has a wealth of practical governance experience having worked both client-side and in more recent years as an advisor.
In 2023 the Chartered Governance Insitute named Kate ‘Governance Professional of the Year’.
Meet Nick
Nick Lindsay is Founder and Director of Elemental and heads up the Governance and Corporate Services teams. He is an experienced corporate lawyer and qualified Chartered Company Secretary.
Prior to starting Elemental, Nick trained at Olswang in London (now part of CMS). He has also worked in-house at the BBC Worldwide Visa Europe.
