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Find out if you’re a trust or company service provider who needs to register for supervision with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
How to close a limited company - strike off, dissolution, voluntary liquidation - or allow to become dormant
How to buy or acquire the assets of a dissolved company - how and when you can claim money or property, who to contact and the forms you need
When a company is dissolved, all of its assets pass to the Crown and are…
You may be able to apply for a court order to restore a company if: you…
You may be able to claim or buy an asset belonging to a dissolved company…
You may be able to get back a dissolved company’s assets if you were one…
This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.
Search for details of companies involved in insolvency proceedings, liquidation, frozen assets
Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator
Decision for applicant Kier Group Plc against registration number 14588521, applicant successful.
How to make a negligible value claim for unquoted shares, and how to check if shares previously quoted on the London Stock Exchange now have negligible value.
Even the best-run business can face unexpected challenges and solvency issues. It's important you recognise the signs and understand your duties as a director.
Object to a company's application to be removed from the companies register - how to find out if a company's applied for insolvency, who can object, how to object, what happens next.
Detailed information about the Insolvency Service’s investigation and enforcement work, how we achieve our outcomes and how to complain about misconduct.
Strikes and industrial action - rights and responsibilities for employers, when unions can take action and the effect on employees' pay and working records
Find out about paying Corporation Tax, instead of Income Tax, if you’re a non-UK resident company with UK property income.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.
The Insolvency and Companies List was formerly known as the Companies Court. We handle cases relating to the insolvency of companies, including: petitions to wind up a company applications to unfreeze bank accounts or challenge a winding up petition applications...
How to apply for a discretionary grant where the dissolved company can be restored. (Company has been dissolved for less than six years)
Find out about clearance applications and how to apply to HMRC for advance confirmation of an exempt distribution when a company purchases its own shares.
The Company Names Tribunal practice direction provides the framework for the management of proceedings brought before the Tribunal.
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