Company & Business Names News

Rules relating to the availability of company names came into force on 31 January 2015, when two new Statutory Instruments came into force. The Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Names (Sensitive Words and Expressions) Regulations 2014 and the...

Overseas Entities

Did you know that the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 requires that any overseas entities (an ‘OE’: an incorporated entity registered outside England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland) who want to buy, sell, or transfer property or...

Sole directors and the Model Articles

Companies must have Articles of Association, the constitution or rules which govern how that company is run. As I’m sure you know, if the company has not adopted bespoke Articles then the Model Articles (prescribed by the Companies (Model Articles)...

Re-designation of shares and updating of Articles

We were approached by one of our Accountant clients, who had a small company they looked after, which had been in existence as a family company for many years, and was bringing a new Director on board. The Board wished to issue shares to this person:  they wanted...

Flat/Property Management using Model Articles?!

We regularly have professional clients approaching us, because their client has gone ahead and incorporated a new company themselves, to act as a flat/property management company, and then realised all the problems that this can create! If a company is acting as a...