If I dissolve my company can I re-register it?

[alpha5]

I've very recently registered a ltd company and my other director has left. We had equal shares in the business and I'm unable to get a signature on the resolution for resignation and share transfer form, to avoid malpractice I therefore have no choice but to dissolve the company. Is it possible for me to re-register the same company name again once dissolved?

 

[Scalloway]

You will need to get the agreement of the other director before you can ask Companies House to dissolve it. You could fail to file confirmation statements and accounts and Companies House will dissolve it for you.

Yes you can reuse the same name once the company is dissolved.

 

[TheWebDesignCompany]

If you want to protect the name, then dissolving the company may not be the best way to achieve your aim.

After you have dissolved anyone else can come along and decide to register your old name for their company.

 

[Mr D]

If you want to protect the name, then dissolving the company may not be the best way to achieve your aim.

After you have dissolved anyone else can come along and decide to register your old name for their company.

Odds of that happening may be pretty low.

Not quite seeing what he could do to prevent that happening.

 

[TheWebDesignCompany]

Odds of that happening may be pretty low.

It depends on how good the name is

I only mentioned it in case it hadn’t been thought of...

 

[alpha5]

This is going to be a impossible task I can't even get him to confirm he's resigned, I therefore have no choice but to shut the company. I was looking to start trading towards the end of year so forfeiting the confirmation statement etc isn't a option, wouldn't that then though have me struck off from being a director permanently for not reporting? Thanks for the advice everyone.

 

[Scalloway]

forfeiting the confirmation statement etc isn't a option, wouldn't that then though have me struck off from being a director permanently for not reporting?

Not as far as I am aware. You have to do something very serious before you are legally stopped from being a director. There were comments a few weeks ago about companies being struck off automatically for failure to file confirmation statements after a few weeks, with no comeback on the directors.

 

[Mr D]

This is going to be a impossible task I can't even get him to confirm he's resigned, I therefore have no choice but to shut the company. I was looking to start trading towards the end of year so forfeiting the confirmation statement etc isn't a option, wouldn't that then though have me struck off from being a director permanently for not reporting? Thanks for the advice everyone.

So what do you want to do?

Nothing is an option.
As is keep the business alive.

The not completing statement option appears viable. A few months later no company.

Now if you stole £150k off the company and fiddled the accounts for 4 years running maybe you'd get struck off from being a director. Or may require bigger steal. Finance director of Patisserie Valerie perhaps.

 

[alpha5]

Nothing is a option but I'd rather not do that I'd have wait a year. From advice from a accountant who said sort it out now rather than later due to shareholdings. I'd rather dissolve now and re-register again as I like the name and have already invested a lot time into setting things up and purchased a domain and website design.

 

[Mr D]

Nothing is a option but I'd rather not do that I'd have wait a year. From advice from a accountant who said sort it out now rather than later due to shareholdings. I'd rather dissolve now and re-register again as I like the name and have already invested a lot time into setting things up and purchased a domain and website design.

From what you have said you don't have the shares to vote through dissolving now.

 

[alpha5]

Thanks for your help people much appreciated have a great week