Online UK ltd company formation, limited company formations, applications, online registration, and company incorporation system for incorporating or registering all types of UK companies. The UKcorporator system details how to set up a limited company in the UK, including electronic filing and automatically generates and tailors all the required documents, including the memorandum and articles of association and company register. If you are forming a limited Co., wish to register companies or need to form or apply to form ready made companies, unlimited or limited liability companies, use our automated online formation system for fast, efficient, economical and accurate registration. Suitable for any company structure or company structures. Also you can check company name availability online and available company names generally, and obtain free information on business name registration via our register business name information page as well as incorporate electronically. For testimonials click here.

**Excluding companies incorporated in Northern Ireland. Otherwise form any type of ready made English, Scottish or Welsh Co., limited liability or unlimited Coy, including a private Coy limited by shares, a public limited company, a private company limited by guarantee, an unlimited company with a share capital or an unlimited company without a share capital and including memorandum of association and articles of association. UK law even allows you to incorporate a sole director, sole shareholder or sole member corporation.

Questions? Check the UKcorporator FAQ.
Or the Resources page. We also have various further related resource pages which you may find useful.

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As you are going through UKcorporator's interactive online interview process, you will have optional 'pop-up' guidance at your fingertips. Further, such guidance will be specifically tailored to the very issue you are then considering. Moreover, such guidance is very detailed, yet clear, and is of an extremely high standard.
In fact, UKcorporator believes that no other UK company formation website has anything approaching the extent or standard of such guidance. Set out below are links (in no particular order) to samples of such guidance (by the way, and particularly if you are a competitor, don't even think about breaching our copyright by copying from this guidance - we have an active monitoring program in place to uncover such breaches and any such breaches will be pursued vigourously) -

Elective resolutions (private companies)
Minutes of first meetings of directors
Appointment of a chairperson of the directors
Company seal
Director's interests in contracts
Directors' shareholdings in own company
Appointment of company auditors
Company name display requirements
Public company commencing business
Company formation configurations
Place of registered office
Registered office - 'England and Wales' or 'Wales'
Registered office
Private v Public Companies
Limited Liability v Unlimited Liability
Unlimited company - with or without share capital?
Limited by shares or limited by guarantee?
Exemption from use of 'limited' in company name
Form 12 declaration
Form 30(5)(a) declaration
Public company directors
Sole (company) director
Other (company) directorships
Registered office and principal office
Sole (company) member/director
Two (company) members/directors
Private company directors
Private company secretaries
Public company secretaries
Company Secretary
Members/shareholders (private company limited by shares or guarantee)
Members/Shareholders (public companies and unlimited liability companies)
Signing of Form 10 by initial member(s)/shareholder(s)
Share classes
Description of share classes
Nominal/par value per share
Premium (if any) payable per share
Company limited by gurantee - maximum amount of members' contribution
Different classes of members in companies limited by guarantee (with no share capital) and unlimited companies (with no share capital)
Cash consideration for shares
Consideration for subscriber shares in a public company
Fully paid / partly paid shares to be taken initially
Restriction applying to public companies issuing partly paid shares
The holding of subscriber shares in trust from the outset
UKcorporator's standard Declaration of Trust document
Objects clause and section 3a of the Companies Act 1985?
Legally required clauses included by UKcorporator in the memorandum of association of companies limited by guarantee
Company name endings
Choice of company name (is the use of the proposed company name prohibited or legally unsuitable for any reason?)
Use of symbols in company names
Upper and lower case letters in company names
Pre-emption provisions in articles of association
Company members / shareholders / owners
Authorised / nominal capital vs issued capital
£1 ordinary shares
'Table A' based articles of association with 'common enhancements'
No shares held on trust
Articles of association
Memorandum of association
Patent appeal

Important advice for people seeking only articles of association and/or memorandum of association.

"Having no prior knowledge about company formation, using UKcorporators online tool, I was able to form my company simply, quickly and, most importantly, with the confidence that came from knowing that I had considered all the relevant options, thanks to the extensive, context sensitive, help text provided. The service is rapid, yet personal, and following receipt of my documents, UKcorporator has enabled me to lodge the required documents electronically at Companies House. Great system and great service!"

Mr Tony Griffin,
Somerset, UK

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