What it is
A calendar of obligations, kept for you. Every company in a group has duties in the country where it is registered: filing annual accounts or returns, renewing licences and permits, and holding board and shareholder meetings. These differ from country to country and are easy to miss when a group has many companies. This service lists your entities, sets out each one's deadlines, and keeps the dates up to date. You see it in your WLA account and can add it to your own calendar.
When to use it
When your group has subsidiaries or branches in more than one country and nobody has a single, reliable list of what each must do and by when. Also after a restructuring, when you enter a new country, or when you take over companies and need to know their obligations.
How to use it
Tell us which companies the group has and where, and share any calendars you already keep. WLA builds the register and the deadlines, and local lawyers verify them. You then follow everything in your WLA account: what is due, what is coming up, what is overdue. You receive reminders before a deadline, and local counsel is available for any filing on request.
What you gain
No missed deadlines from not knowing they exist. One list for the whole group instead of many separate ones. You hear when a rule change moves a date. Your finance, legal and company secretarial teams all work from the same calendar.
THE SITUATIONA group has a holding company in the UAE, a subsidiary in India and an acquired company in Poland. Each has its own filings and meetings, kept by different people.
WITHOUT A CALENDAREach country is handled separately, often by a local adviser who only knows their own company. Nobody sees all deadlines together. A return is filed late, or a licence renewal is missed, and the group learns about it from a notice.
WITH THE CALENDAROne register lists the three companies and every deadline for each, with dates verified locally. The CFO sees what is coming in the next 30 days, reminders arrive in advance, and the whole list can be added to the team's own calendars.
EntityA company or branch that is registered in a country and has its own legal obligations, for example a subsidiary.
Statutory filingA document that a company is required by law to send to a public body, such as annual accounts or a yearly return.
RenewalExtending a licence, permit or registration before it expires.
Board and shareholder meetingsMeetings that the law or the company's own rules require a company to hold, often every year.
Radar signalA notice from WLA that a rule has changed. When a signal moves a deadline, the calendar is updated.
Local counselA lawyer qualified in the country where the entity is registered. Only they can confirm what that country's law requires.
