Incorporation as a limited liability company is the preferred structure for thousands of sucessful businesses. Lawpack's Limited Company Kit explains what a limited company is and provides users with everything they need to set up their own, with a registered office in England, Wales or Scotland and with a minimum of two directors, at a fraction of the cost of an 'off-the-shelf company'.

It includes copies of the necessary Companies House forms and a guidance manual that takes the reader step-by-step through the process and provides useful background information.

The contents of this Kit have been approved under English and Scottish laws by Reynolds Robertson, Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ACIS).

Valid in England & Wales and Scotland only.

Note: This Kit cannot help you to form a limited company by guarantee.

Guidance manual contents:

• What is a private limited company?
• Should you incorporate your business?
  - Sole trader
  - Partnerships
  - Companies
• Types of company
  - Limited by shares
  - Limited by guarantee
  - Unlimited company
  - Public limited company
• Naming your company
• Use of company name
  - Place of business
  - Business stationery
  - Trade names
• The registered office
• How you form your company
  - Memorandum of Association
  - Form 10
  - Articles of Association
  - Form 12
• After you form your company
  - Issuing shares
  - Share certificates
  - Opening a bank account
  - Auditors
  - Transfer of assets to the corporation
  - Taxation
• Statutory books
  - Minute book
• Company seal
• Annual return
• Annual accounts
• Elective resolutions
• Management of the company
  - Company directors
  - Directors' proceedings
  - Appointment of directors
  - Other considerations
  - Company secretary
• Capital of the company
• Transfer of shares
• Shareholders' meetings
  - Notice
  - Proxies
  - Quorum
  - Voting
  - Ordinary resolutions
  - Special resolutions
• Written resolutions

Example documents:

Minutes of first meeting of directors
Written resolution of directors
Registers
Notice of an extraordinary general meeting (EGM)
Consent to short notice of EGM
Minutes of EGM
Printed resolutions
Elective resolutions

Loose-leaf forms included:

Parchment-quality Share Certificates - 2 copies
Register of Members, Register of Directors, Register of Secretaries, Register of Directors' Interests and Register of Charges - 1 copy
Form 10 First Directors and Secretary and Intended Situation of Registered Office - 1 copy
Form 12 Declaration on Application for Registration - 1 copy
Form 225 Change of Accounting Reference Date - 1 copy
Form 88(2) Return of Allotment of Shares - 1 copy
Memorandum of Association - 1 copy
Articles of Association - 1 copy