About FA Business Support Services
We are a leading advisor for new company formation in Ghana. Company formation in Ghana requires strict compliance with regulations, knowledge of the proper channels, and the skills to guide you through them. FA Business Support Services puts that knowledge and skill at your disposal.
FA Business Support Services assists with setting up the following types of companies in Ghana, in accordance with the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992):
- A Company Limited By Shares: A company having the liability of its members limited to the amount, unpaid on the shares respectively held by them. The Company may be set up as a Private Company or a Public Company.
- Private Company: The total number of members and debenture holders cannot exceed 5o excluding employees and past employees. The regulations of a private company may restrict the right to transfer shares in the company.
- Public Company: The number of members in a public company is not limited and its shares are freely transferable without restriction, except where there is an unpaid liability on the shares or the transferee is a minor or person certified by court to be of unsound mind.
- A Company Limited By Guarantee: This type of company may be a public or private company. It can only be set up for non-profit purposes.
- External Company: This refers to a body corporate, formed outside Ghana which wishes to establish a place of business in Ghana such as a branch, management, share, transfer, or registration office, factory, mine, or any other fixed place of business.
We serve as Company Secretaries (an office that is compulsory under Ghanaian Company Law) to both local and international companies. The Secretary is an adjunct to the Board of Directors and is to guide the Directors on all governance compliance and regulatory aspects.
FA Business Support Services Limited has developed a remarkable client portfolio of companies to which it serves as Secretary. As part of our secretarial services, we retain and maintain all statutory books and registers, convene, attend and take minutes at all Board and Shareholder meetings and ensure necessary filings are timeously made at Companies Registry. We also interact with other professional advisors (for example Auditors) as and when required and provide general company secretarial and quasi regulatory advice on specific projects of interest to our clients. As company secretaries, we assist our clients to maintain a healthy corporate governance system and assist in the evaluation of same. In short, we assist in effective and efficient corporate housekeeping.
We speak the Corporate Governance and Company Secretarial language fluently.
Our vision is to be the centre of excellence for corporate governance, providing flexible corporate governance services for a variety of organizations.
Our mission is founded on principles of integrity, commitment and excellence. We always provide our clients with the best company secretarial solutions in a professional and efficient manner.
Our Commitment
FA Business Support Services Limited is a company secretarial and business support services company which strives to achieve results that exceed expectations through commitment to our clients, adding maximum value to our clients’ business, and providing cutting-edge, customized solutions in response to clients’ problems and business environment.
We are accessible, efficient, responsive and sensitive to clients’ needs. We are committed to each other, and to sustaining a unique and enriching environment through diversity and teamwork, and always strive to improve ourselves and the way we work.
Our Values
FA Business Support Services Limited comprises carefully selected individuals who share:
- Passion: This is what drives us to handle all matters on behalf of clients with enthusiasm and in a timely and efficient manner;
- Respect: This is what makes us adhere to the highest standards of ethics, integrity, trust and deference in all dealings with clients, the firm, and each other;
- Creativity: This is what drives us to strive to understand and provide innovative solutions to existing problems and to anticipate the future needs of our clients.