Administration services tailored to your needs
We offer a full range of fund administration and corporate services to our clients, utilising the expertise of experienced industry professionals and the latest software to provide optimised service outcomes. Whether you are looking for an administrator of a single holding vehicle, a full fund structure or multiple fund ‘families’, we are here to assist you.
Our administration and corporate services can be offered on a standalone basis or alongside one or more of our advisory services solutions.
Our administrative services include:
We take the time to understand our clients’ structures and expectations and to ensure that our operating environment is properly configured to maximise service delivery. Work typically includes:
- Reviewing the regulatory and tax position
- Reviewing fund documents
- Assisting with regulatory applications and the finalisation of fund documents
- Preparing fund specific operating manuals
- Preparing template notices and reports
- Opening bank accounts
- Establishing and maintaining fund registers and bookkeeping structures
We understand that investor onboarding will often be the first interaction that your investors have with us and that it is crucial we ensure that this process is completed in an intelligent, user friendly and efficient way. Services include:
- Assisting with investor due diligence and KYC
- Facilitating fund closings
Our administration team is fully integrated with our accounting, legal and compliance teams to maximise communication and to ensure the best service outcomes. Services include:
- Processing all fund transactions (calls, distributions, expense payments etc)
- Cash management
- Providing oversight of fund assets and the application of client assets rules
- Overseeing fund governance
- Co-ordinating general partner board meetings and limited partner meetings
- Preparing and distributing investor reports
We’ve invested in market leading technology to ensure that our fund accounting output is as efficient and streamlined as possible without compromising accuracy. Services include:
- Maintaining full accounting records for administered structures
- Calculating fees, accruals and carried interest and completing regular reconciliations as required
- Preparing quarterly and annual financial statements and reports
- Coordinating the audit process
- Completing any necessary tax registrations
- Assistance with preparing and filing any necessary tax returns
- Dealing with ad hoc financial queries from investors
As the regulatory environment continues to evolve, we stay on top of the ever more complex reporting requirements. We’re constantly monitoring changes and take the time to understand them, making the complex simple. Services include reporting under:
- AIFMD
- SFDR
- FATCA/CRS
- Dodd Frank
With legally qualified professionals embedded across our client teams, we provide unparalleled and embedded oversight of governance processes. Services include:
- Providing full company secretarial support
- Providing directors and corporate governance support
- Providing compliance and anti-money laundering officers
- Providing risk and compliance frameworks and monitoring programs
- Liaising with insurance providers
Our corporate services include:
- Entity incorporation
- Completion of KYC checks
- Establishment of banking relationships
- Tax and regulatory registrations
- Registered office and company secretarial support
- Provision of directors
- Cash management and bookkeeping
- Asset verification and safekeeping
- Statutory and regulatory filings
- Preparation of annual accounts
- Assistance with audit processes
- Completion of tax registrations
- Preparation and filing of tax returns
Contact the team to discuss your administration requirements today
Earlybird instructed Corvus to advise in connection with the establishment of its UK office, obtaining regulatory authorisation for the UK office from the FCA and the UK office’s sub-lease. Corvus also provide ongoing compliance advice. Corvus take a proactive, technical yet pragmatic approach to their advice and have worked closely and efficiently with Earlybird team members, our other advisers and our counterparties to deliver results.
“We’ve worked with Corvus on a range of matters including business as usual legal/operational support and transactional work. As a closed-ended funds specialist, Corvus understood our business from the start and were able to provide tailored, solution focused, risk adjusted advice. When picking external counsel to assist with a recent transaction, we had no hesitation in choosing Corvus.”
“Corvus worked closely with Federated Hermes Private Markets (formerly Hermes GPE) between February 2020 and August 2021. Corvus hit the ground running and quickly developed a deep understanding of our culture, commercial drivers and risk appetite, blending seamlessly with our investment, finance and tax functions. Corvus really felt like an in-house team and their practical, solutions-focussed advice was highly valued by the business.”
“Corvus have provided advice to us in connection with our cross-border client distribution exercises for a number of years. While this is a complex area with some significant grey space, Corvus aren’t afraid to take a view on difficult issues and suggest practical, operational outputs.”