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Richard Scampton, Company Secretarial Manager at Penningtons Manches

Richard Scampton

Company secretarial manager

Basingstoke


Profile

Richard is the company secretarial manager in the corporate team. He joined Penningtons Manches Cooper from a corporate services provider in 2015. Richard advises and assists corporates on a broad range of company secretarial matters including company incorporations in the UK and international jurisdictions, annual compliance obligations, maintaining company registers and dealing with share transactions. 

His work includes looking after the compliance obligations of a wide range of public and private companies, as well as property management companies, charities, LLPs and branches of overseas companies (now known as UK establishments). He has particular experience in helping overseas clients incorporate UK companies and navigating corporate compliance, as well as reconstituting and reviewing statutory registers, rectifications to the register and voluntary dissolutions.

Recent work highlights

  • Managing the company secretarial needs of a major international retailer.
  • Assisting a life sciences company with the issue and subsequent transfer of shares within a strict timescale, where options had been granted to over 190 employees.
  • Advising on and attending to the incorporation and continued compliance of several public companies with overseas investors.
  • Providing pragmatic advice and assistance on the voluntary dissolution of a UK company for a client based overseas.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC311575 and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under number 419867.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP