Astute Corporate Services Pty Ltd

Astute provides Australian resident Directors / Secretaries for international groups and substantial private investors resident offshore, subject to thorough due diligence reviews and complete transparency on the businesses involved. Astute does not provide legal, accounting or tax advice, but if a client seeks a referral, Astute will provide multiple recommendations of appropriate firms based in Australia with no financial benefit to Astute. Astute is experienced in risk management and the assessment of counter-party risk. Astute is very conscious of the need to totally eliminate any risk of insider trading, which ultimately leads to prosecutions, and also the need to minimise any risk to boards, and board members, of the impact of common law judgements like those from James Hardie, OneTel, Centro Properties on the evolving risks of potential personal liability to all company directors on the obligations of boards and their committees, and the traps with conflicts of inte...