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Company Formation

Author: Emily Rowling
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Company Formation in United Kingdom

Company Formation: The company’s name

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  • Regulating the company’s name
  • Changing the company’s name
  • Using a business name
  • Re-use of company names
  • Publicity of company name and other trading disclosures

    • Company Registration

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  • The prescribed documents
  • The role of the Registrar of Companies
  • Commencement of business

    • Memorandum of Association

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  • Introduction
  • The importance of the memorandum
  • Contents of the memorandum

    • The legitimate Transactions of Company Promotion

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  • Pre-incorporation contracts
  • Transfer of liability from the promoter to the newly formed company
  • Recovery of legitimate expenses by the promoter

    • Company Formation

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  • The registered office
  • The company seal (or common seal)

    • Company promotion

    Shelf companies

    Company formation

    Related entries in the UK Encyclopedia of Law:

    1. Company Liquidation
    2. Corporate Form
    3. Company Winding-up
    4. Partnership Formation
    5. Company Reconstructions
    6. Directors
    7. Maintenance of Capital
    8. Meeting
    9. Share Capital
    10. Limited Liability Partnership
    11. Company Name
    12. Company
    13. Minority Protection
    14. Liquidations
    15. Partner Relations
    16. Restructuring
    17. Winding-up
    18. Company Name Change
    19. Articles of Association
    20. Company Promotion
    21. Registrar of Companies
    22. Partnership Nature
    23. Partnership Dissolution
    24. Minority
    25. Company Director
    26. Company Regulaton
    27. Private Company
    28. Companies Registry
    29. Membership
    30. Re-use of Company Name
    31. Classes of Share
    32. Companies House
    33. Company Secretary
    34. Charges
    35. Company Member
    36. Moratorium
    37. Shelf Companies
    38. Recovery of Expenses
    39. Companies Court
    40. Enforcement
    41. Company Meetings
    42. Abuse
    43. Unfair Prejudice
    44. Close Company
    45. Redemption of Shares
    46. Nature
    47. Insolvent
    48. Transfer of Liability
    49. Borrowing
    50. Limited Company
    51. Outsider
    52. Company Law
    53. Partner
    54. Public Company
    55. Dissolution
    56. Member
    57. Foreign Company
    58. Methods of Dissolution
    59. Holding Company
    60. Subsidiary Company
    61. Continental Shelf
    62. Company Officers
    63. Company Charges
    64. Company Debt
    65. Company Properties
    66. Registered Company
    67. Partnership
    68. Companies Register
    69. Reduction
    70. Insider Dealing
    71. Transaction
    72. Legal Relationships
    73. Redemption
    74. Defunct Company
    75. Company Commercial
    76. Company Contracts
    77. Company Meeting
    78. Director Responsibilities
    79. Nominee
    80. Disclosure
    81. Buy-back
    82. Common Seal
    83. Sources of Company Law
    84. Types of Company
    85. Effect of Administration
    86. Process of Administration
    87. Classification of Companies
    88. Contract
    89. Lender
    90. Contractor
    91. Equitable Winding-up
    92. Guarantee Company
    93. Memorandum of Association
    94. General Electric Company
    95. British South Africa Company
    96. Small Company Moratorium
    97. Companies
    98. Capital Payment
    99. Dissolved Company
    100. Personal Rights
    101. Reflective Loss
    102. Personal Actions
    103. Representative Actions
    104. Trading Disclosures
    105. Corporation Tax
    106. Business Name
    107. Quoted Companies
    108. Registered Office
    109. Corporate Venturing Scheme
    110. Constructive Notice
    111. Consolidation of Associations
    112. Shareholder Agreement
    113. Protection
    114. Financial Assistance
    115. Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
    116. Registration of Charges
    117. Corporate Governance Code
    118. Administrator
    119. Annual Return
    120. Corporation
    121. Debenture Stock
    122. Sample Shareholders Special Resolutions
    123. Medical Research Council
    124. Accounts
    125. Certificate of Incorporation


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    • Author: Emily Rowling
    • Description: Company Formation: The company's name Refine your research by picking one of the following subsections: Regulating the [...]

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