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Shareholder Changes

Update shareholder records and share allocations, with CIPC filing and updated company documents.

R350

once-off

  • Collection of required ID and resolution documents
  • Preparation of CIPC share transfer documentation
  • Filing directly with CIPC
  • Updated company records delivered

Tell us what you need

What this filing covers

Adding a shareholder, removing one, or transferring shares between them. We collect the ID documents and resolutions the change needs, prepare the share transfer documentation, file with CIPC, and return updated company records.

Ownership, not management

Shares are ownership. Directorship is control. They move independently, and a share transfer leaves the director record untouched. If the incoming shareholder is also joining the board, file director changes as well.

Agree the deal before you file

The filing is the last step, not the negotiation. Before anything can be prepared, the parties need to agree how many shares move and to whom, what the outgoing shareholder is paid if anything, and whether the remaining shareholders consent — which the company's MOI may require. A transfer filed ahead of that agreement is how a clean company becomes a dispute with paperwork attached.

Three documents people mix up

DocumentWhat it does
Share transfer filingUpdates who owns the company on the CIPC record
Share certificateEvidence in the shareholder's own hands of the shares they hold
Beneficial ownershipA separate CIPC submission naming the natural people behind the ownership

Buying one does not do the others. A transfer without a reissued certificate leaves your shareholder holding a document that says something untrue, and a change in ownership almost always means the beneficial ownership register needs refiling too.

What we need

Company name and registration number, the type of change, and the shareholder's full legal name. Certified IDs and the signed resolution go into your order workspace after payment.

Sequence for a clean transfer

  1. Agree terms, and check the MOI for consent or pre-emption requirements
  2. Pass the resolution and sign it
  3. File the transfer with CIPC through this service
  4. Reissue share certificates so they reflect the new holdings
  5. Refile beneficial ownership, because the people behind the company have changed

Four and five are the steps that get dropped, usually because the transfer felt finished at three. They resurface in a due diligence pack or at the next annual return, and by then reconstructing who owned what and when is somebody's paid afternoon.

If the company is brand new

Do not buy a change to fix something that has not happened yet. The Premium registration package issues share certificates and files beneficial ownership at incorporation — see packages — which avoids paying for an amendment in month two.

What you get back

Prepared transfer documentation, the CIPC filing, and updated company records. CIPC processing times vary, and we will not put a date on their side of it.