If your company has been struck off or dissolved you can have it restored to the register at Companies House.
Our experienced company secretarial team will work to restore your struck off company quickly and sympathetically with minimum hassle, ever mindful of the urgency and distress that is often involved because the assets of struck off and dissolved companies pass bona vacantia to the Crown.
Whether you are one of our professional clients such as an accountant, solicitor or company secretary or a business owner in your own right, we will take a professional approach with personal attention to support your struck off company restoration.
To restore a struck off or dissolved company to the register at Companies House and continue trading you need to bring all of the struck off or dissolved company's affairs up to date. If a company was trading at the time of strike off it may be eligible for an administrative restoration under sections 1024 – 1049 of the Companies Act 2006.
Company restoration is normally subject to a time limit of 6 years (except for example where a personal injury claim is being brought) from when the company was struck off. Please be advised that until a court order has been obtained, the company will not be restored unless it is an administrative restoration by the Registrar of Companies. This is not guaranteed nor automatic and until such times as the struck off or dissolved company is restored to the register at Companies House the assets remain bona vacantia.
Only a former director or former member of the company, who was a director or member at the time the company was dissolved can apply.To be eligible for administrative restoration, the company must have been:
The company is not liable for late filing penalties for accounts received on restoration but which became due while the company was dissolved.
The vast majority of company restoration cases are straightforward. In the unlikely event that the company restoration encounters difficulties (if say a 3rd party were to oppose it) it is not possible to predict the delay but you will be informed of any adverse developments.