Establish your UK limited liability partnership from abroad with Coddan, from international readiness and evidence assessment to accepted formation through the route that matches your ownership, participants and documentary requirements.

Explore International LLP Formation Routes

Start with your international LLP formation facts and evidence, then choose the appropriate readiness, accepted formation or complex international route.

Establish a UK limited liability partnership with non-UK or international members where overseas participation, corporate members, foreign ownership chains or international evidence affect the formation work.

Begin with International Readiness™ at £125 + VAT where the participant, ownership, identity, documentary or risk position needs to be assessed before a formation instruction can be accepted.

Where the case is accepted, International Formation™ is available at £295 + VAT for up to two straightforward overseas individual members with transparent ownership and control.

More complex cases involving overseas corporate members, layered ownership, enhanced due diligence or material foreign-document work may proceed through a separately scoped route from £495 + VAT.

The applicable Companies House incorporation fee is additional: £100 for standard software incorporation, £156 for an accepted official same-day filing or £124 for paper filing, where that route applies.

Prepare the participant, ownership, control, activity, identity and documentary information required for the accepted route, including any applicable identity verification and professional-clearance dependencies.

Coddan's process is structured to identify missing evidence, documentary dependencies and separate costs before submission, reducing avoidable administrative back-and-forth without guaranteeing acceptance or registration.

Coddan CPM Limited is registered as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) and may provide approved identity-verification work; Companies House retains responsibility for examination and registration.

Foreign-law, tax, banking, translation, certification, legalisation and other specialist work remain separate where required, and external professionals or authorities retain responsibility for their own conclusions, requirements and processing.

Once the international facts, evidence, acceptance route and applicable costs have been confirmed, provide the required information, approvals and verification so Coddan can prepare and submit the accepted LLP filing.

Click Here to Explore International LLP Formation Routes

Your international LLP formation route should reflect the members, ownership chain, jurisdictions, documentary evidence and professional dependencies involved. Coddan confirms an expected working window case by case after acceptance, while Companies House, foreign registries, professional advisers and document authorities retain control of their own processing and decisions.
Call us on: 033 0808 0089 if you need professional assistance with selecting the appropriate international LLP formation route.

Establish a UK LLP from Abroad: International Partnership Formation & ACSP IDV

International LLP formation and acceptance

Form a UK LLP with Non-UK or International Members

Establish the evidence, ownership and acceptance route before Coddan prepares the UK LLP incorporation filing.

A non-UK address or overseas member does not create a different type of LLP. It can, however, change the identity, corporate-authority, beneficial-ownership, sanctions, documentary and professional checks required before Coddan can accept an instruction.

Compare the international service routes Check the evidence Coddan may need

Readiness assessment: £125 + VAT. Accepted formation: £295 + VAT for up to two straightforward overseas individual members, or from £495 + VAT for a corporate or complex international case. The applicable Companies House fee and any verification, address, registry, certification, translation or professional costs are separate.

Use International and non-UK LLP formation when an international fact changes the formation work

This page covers the additional acceptance and documentary work created by a non-UK individual, an overseas body corporate, a foreign ownership chain or another international risk or evidence fact. The ordinary LLP foundation—name, jurisdiction, registered office, members, designated status, PSC position and incorporation particulars—remains the job of the UK LLP formation page.

Use the international route

one or more proposed members live outside the UK;
a proposed member is an overseas body corporate;
ownership or control passes through foreign entities or several layers;
foreign documents need authentication or translation assessment; or
the facts require enhanced due diligence or professional clearance.

Use the ordinary UK LLP formation route

Use UK LLP formation where the proposed LLP has up to two straightforward UK individual members, a transparent ownership and control position, and no material international evidence or enhanced-due-diligence issue.

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Acceptance before incorporation

The readiness assessment gives the proposed route a clear decision

International formation should not begin with an assumption that every participant, document or ownership chain can be accepted. Coddan first examines the supplied facts sufficiently to decide what can happen next.

Accepted route

Coddan identifies the accepted service scope, formation price, known separate costs and the information required before submission.

Missing-evidence route

Coddan identifies the material missing evidence or clarification and, where possible, the documentary or professional route needed to continue.

Referral or refusal

Coddan may refer a question to an appropriate professional, decline the proposed scope or refuse the application where the acceptance requirements are not met.

The £125 + VAT assessment is credited against an accepted International and non-UK LLP formation formation instruction completed within 30 days. It is payment for the readiness decision and is not a promise that Coddan, Companies House, a bank or another professional will accept the case.

Evidence follows the participant, ownership chain and risk

There is no single international checklist that fits every case. Coddan asks for evidence proportionate to the proposed members, beneficial owners, activities, jurisdictions, authority arrangements and documentary reliability.

International LLP evidence matrix
you or fact	Evidence that may be required	Why it matters	Service boundary
Non-UK individual member	Accepted passport or identity evidence, residential-address evidence, liveness evidence, Companies House personal code where currently required, occupation and business-purpose information.	Identity, address, role, purpose and filing particulars must be established.	The formation price does not include the separate identity-verification service unless expressly stated.
Overseas corporate member	Recent registry extract, constitutional documents, registered-office and registration particulars, directors or officers, incumbency evidence, signing authority and authorised representative details.	Coddan must establish the entity’s existence, relevant particulars, authority and those acting for it.	Registry fees, certification, translation and external professional work are separate.
Ownership and control chain	Ownership chart, intermediate-entity evidence, beneficial-owner information, voting or control rights and the instructed PSC analysis.	The legal and beneficial ownership must be sufficiently transparent for acceptance and the LLP’s registrable PSC position.	Disputed, opaque or legally uncertain control may require a solicitor or other specialist.
Purpose and expected activity	Business rationale, intended activities, expected counterparties, relevant jurisdictions and anticipated use of the LLP.	The proposal must be lawful, understandable and within Coddan’s documented risk appetite.	Regulated, restricted or unclear activity may require evidence, professional clearance or refusal.
Risk-dependent source evidence	Source-of-funds or source-of-wealth information, supporting financial records or transaction evidence where the assessed risk requires it.	Enhanced due diligence may be required to understand the origin of funds or wealth and the proposed relationship.	This evidence is not demanded identically from every overseas applicant.
Foreign-language or foreign-issued document	A suitable translation and, only where required for the particular use, certification, notarisation, apostille or further legalisation.	Coddan must be able to understand and rely on the evidence used for the accepted route.	Not every foreign document needs every stage. The required route depends on the issuing country, document and intended recipient.

Coddan may request further or refreshed evidence where the supplied material is incomplete, inconsistent, expired, difficult to authenticate or insufficient for the assessed risk.

International acceptance is risk based—not nationality based

Coddan applies UK sanctions requirements, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence where required, documentary-authenticity controls and its documented risk appetite. A politically exposed person, higher-risk jurisdiction or unusual ownership feature is assessed according to the applicable obligations and facts; it is not converted into a generic promise of acceptance or an automatic public refusal list.

Screening and risk understanding

participant, beneficial-owner and control information;
sanctions and politically exposed person screening;
jurisdictions, activities, counterparties and purpose;
document reliability and authority; and
source evidence where the risk requires it.

When Coddan may pause, refer or refuse

a participant or beneficial owner cannot be satisfactorily identified;
ownership, control, purpose or source information is withheld or materially inconsistent;
documents cannot be satisfactorily authenticated;
the proposal is prohibited or outside Coddan’s risk appetite;
a false address, false statement or concealment request is identified; or
required professional clearance is not obtained.

Identity verification is a dependency with its own specialist route

Companies House treats individual LLP members as director-equivalent roles for identity-verification purposes. PSCs have their own verification and personal-code obligations, with timing depending on the role and when it began. Companies House currently lists verification for corporate LLP members as a later implementation stage.

What International and non-UK LLP formation establishes

International and non-UK LLP formation identifies the people, roles and codes relevant to an accepted formation instruction and whether a separate verification route must be completed before the intended filing can proceed.

What the identity-verification owner handles

The detailed evidence, liveness, review, ACSP submission, personal-code and failure-resolution process belongs to Coddan’s specialist LLP identity-verification ecosystem.

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Foreign documents take the shortest appropriate evidential route

An overseas registry extract or authority document may be usable as issued, may need a certified translation, or may need certification, notarisation, an apostille or further legalisation for a particular recipient. The route is determined by the document, issuing jurisdiction, intended use and recipient—not by adding every documentary stage to every case.

1. Identify

Establish the document, issuer, language, date and purpose.

2. Test

Check what Coddan and any recipient need in order to understand and rely on it.

3. Route

Use only the translation, certification, notarial or legalisation stages actually required.

4. Disclose

Confirm the known third-party and coordination costs before the additional work is commissioned.

International and non-UK LLP formation identifies the documentary dependency. The specialist document-certification, translation, notarisation, apostille and legalisation ecosystem covers the detailed service and execution route.

Three routes from readiness to accepted formation

The assessment establishes whether Coddan can accept the proposed work and which formation route applies. International evidence, verification and third-party work remain visible rather than being concealed inside a formation headline.

Required first stage

International LLP Readiness Assessment

£125 + VAT

A paid review producing an acceptance, refusal or missing-evidence decision for the proposed international participant and ownership chain.

initial participant, ownership, activity and jurisdiction review;
initial evidence and documentary-route identification;
identification of EDD or professional-clearance dependencies;
accepted service route or reason the file cannot yet proceed; and
credit of £125 against an accepted International and non-UK LLP formation formation completed within 30 days.

Official fee: none.

Renewal: none.

Route: paid assessment before formation acceptance.

After assessment and acceptance

International LLP Formation

£295 + VAT

For up to two straightforward accepted overseas individual members with transparent ownership and control.

UK LLP name and jurisdiction preparation;
accepted individual-member and designated-status particulars;
accepted PSC particulars or statutory statement;
software incorporation preparation and submission; and
digital incorporation evidence when Companies House registers the LLP.

Companies House: £100 standard software fee or £156 official same-day fee, separate.

Separate: identity verification, address, foreign-document and professional work.

Route: conditional instruction after readiness assessment and acceptance.

Individual scope and quotation

Corporate or Complex International LLP Formation

from £495 + VAT

For an overseas corporate member, layered ownership, enhanced due diligence or material foreign-document work.

entity-existence, authority and authorised-person evidence route;
ownership-chain and beneficial-owner evidence review;
case-specific EDD and documentary dependencies;
formation filing after all acceptance conditions are met; and
referral where legal, tax or foreign-law conclusions are required.

Companies House: applicable incorporation fee separate.

Separate: registry, certification, translation, legalisation and external-professional costs.

Route: individual assessment and quotation; no instant checkout.

How the complete cost is constructed

Coddan separates the professional fee, VAT, government fee and circumstance-dependent work so that an international applicant can see what is fixed and what remains dependent on evidence.

International LLP commercial continuity table
Cost element	Position	When it applies
Readiness assessment	£125 + VAT	Before International and non-UK LLP formation formation acceptance; creditable against an accepted instruction completed within 30 days.
International formation	£295 + VAT	Up to two straightforward accepted overseas individuals with transparent ownership and control.
Corporate or complex formation	from £495 + VAT	Overseas body corporate, layered ownership, EDD or material documentary work; exact scope quoted.
Companies House fee	£100 software; £156 official same day; £124 paper	The applicable official fee is separate. An official same-day service does not remove Coddan’s prior acceptance and evidence requirements.
Identity verification	Separate service or external route	Where a person must verify or obtain and use a personal code.
Foreign evidence and documents	Third-party cost plus separately quoted coordination	Registry evidence, certified translation, certification, notarisation, apostille or legalisation actually required.
Address and continuing services	Separate first-year and renewal price	Only where selected and accepted; not automatically included in International and non-UK LLP formation formation.
Legal, tax or specialist work	Quoted by the responsible professional	Where the formation depends on professional conclusions outside Coddan’s formation-administration scope.

The readiness assessment is charged once. Coddan will not charge the same accepted complexity fact twice merely because it affects more than one internal check. If new facts materially change the scope, Coddan identifies the additional work before proceeding.

Complexity is priced once, at the point it changes the work

These approved modifiers guide the quotation. They are not an automatic menu to be stacked without regard to the work already included in a quoted corporate or complex formation fee.

International LLP complexity modifiers
Additional fact	Approved treatment	Control
Additional straightforward UK individual	£35 + VAT	Only where not already included in the accepted scope.
Additional straightforward non-UK individual	£75 + VAT	Only after international acceptance.
UK body corporate	£125 + VAT	Subject to entity, authority, ownership and control evidence.
Overseas body corporate	from £250 + VAT	Assessment and quotation; not an instant-checkout addition.
Additional transparent ownership or control layer	£75 + VAT per accepted layer	If not transparent or routine, move to assessment and quotation.
Trust, nominee, opaque control, complex PSC or EDD	£195 + VAT assessment, then quotation	May be referred or refused; no automatic acceptance.

From international facts to an accepted filing instruction

Each stage has a defined decision. Coddan does not submit first and attempt to resolve identity, ownership, authority or documentary questions afterwards.

Stage 1
Describe the proposed LLP
Provide the members, jurisdictions, ownership chain, intended activity, designated-member plan and initial PSC position.
Stage 2
Receive the evidence route
Coddan identifies the participant, corporate, ownership, source and documentary evidence needed for the proposed case.
Stage 3
Complete readiness review
Coddan applies the relevant acceptance, sanctions, CDD, EDD, authority and document controls and records the next decision.
Stage 4
Accept, clarify, refer or refuse
The outcome defines whether formation can proceed, what remains missing, what needs professional clearance or why Coddan cannot act.
Stage 5
Confirm scope and costs
For an accepted file, Coddan confirms the formation route, official fee, separate verification or address work and known third-party dependencies.
Stage 6
Prepare and submit
After accepted information, evidence, authority, payment and required verification are complete, Coddan prepares and submits the instructed filing.

Coddan confirms an expected working window case by case after acceptance. Companies House, foreign registries, professional advisers and document authorities retain control of their own processing and decisions.

Convenience proved by the route

A clearer international route before formation money is committed

The usual administrative friction is uncertainty: which overseas documents matter, who must be identified, whether an ownership chain is acceptable and which costs sit outside the incorporation fee. Coddan’s readiness stage brings those questions forward.

Guided information collection

Coddan’s structured online information route gives the applicant a quick way to provide the initial participant and ownership facts. “Quick” describes that bounded information-provision stage—not the acceptance or registration outcome.

A recorded readiness decision

An acceptance, missing-evidence, referral or refusal decision makes the next administrative step more straightforward because the applicant knows what Coddan can do and what remains outside the service.

Proportionate document routing

Coddan identifies the required translation or authentication route rather than assuming that every foreign document needs every possible stage. This reduces unnecessary administration and cost.

Separated costs and responsibilities

The professional fee, official fee and circumstance-dependent work are separated before an accepted instruction proceeds. External authorities and professionals still control their own requirements, timing and decisions.

The online connection is protected through HTTPS/TLS encryption, commonly called SSL. Personal information is handled under Coddan’s published privacy policy and applicable UK data-protection requirements. These controls support the route; they are not a promise that any online system is completely risk free.

The status behind Coddan’s role

The relevant evidence is not a collection of promotional badges. It explains why Coddan can prepare a formation instruction, apply its regulated-business acceptance controls and provide an authorised identity-verification route within the approved service scope.

Formation work since 2005

Coddan has provided formation services and used commercial formation software since 2005, including LLP incorporation across England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Formation agent

Coddan prepares and submits accepted LLP formation information through the available filing route. Companies House remains responsible for examination and registration.

HMRC-supervised TCSP

Coddan operates as a trust or company service provider supervised by HM Revenue & Customs for anti-money-laundering purposes. Supervision is not approval of an applicant, package or commercial outcome.

Companies House-registered ACSP

Coddan CPM Limited is registered as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider and may provide approved identity-verification work. Registration does not amount to Companies House endorsement or guarantee acceptance.

Formation administration does not replace specialist advice

Coddan checks, prepares, coordinates and routes the accepted administrative work. Where a conclusion belongs to a lawyer, tax adviser, accountant, bank or another regulated professional, the formation route must preserve that responsibility.

Within Coddan’s accepted scope

formation acceptance and administrative checks;
incorporation-information preparation and submission;
identity and documentary dependency recognition;
approved coordination with relevant professional routes; and
handover to the selected governance, accounts or compliance service.

Refer to the responsible professional

individual or structure-specific international tax conclusions;
foreign-law, enforceability or disputed-ownership opinions;
regulated-activity, investment or fund analysis;
audit, insolvency or complex accounting conclusions; and
banking or payment-provider eligibility decisions.

Registration is not the end of the LLP route

When Companies House registers the LLP, the entity exists. Its internal governance, records, accounts, tax administration and continuing filings still need the appropriate ownership and service route. International and non-UK LLP formation identifies those destinations without implying that they are all included in the formation price.

Members and PSCs

Member roles, designated status, corporate members and substantive PSC questions belong to LLP members, designated members, corporate members and PSCs.

Agreement and governance

The standard, adapted, bespoke, review or solicitor route for the LLP agreement belongs to LLP agreements and governance.

Addresses and records

A UK registered office, service addresses and records services remain separately selected Registered office, service addresses and LLP records services.

Accounts

Accounting records and annual accounts require their own evidence, responsibility and professional route.

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Continuing compliance

Confirmation statements and the continuing filing calendar are not automatically included in International and non-UK LLP formation formation.

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Current official position used for this service

The legal and filing position was checked against current authoritative guidance before this page was prepared. Requirements can change, so the live filing and identity position must be checked again at instruction and before you rely on the service or submit a filing.

Companies House: set up and run an LLP — current formation methods, registered office, designated members and official fees.
Companies House: LLP incorporation and names — incorporation particulars, members, jurisdiction and filing routes.
Companies House: verifying your identity — roles, ACSP route and the later stage for corporate LLP members.
Companies House: when identity verification is required — current role and timing distinctions.
HMRC: responsibilities under money-laundering supervision — risk assessment, customer due diligence and ongoing responsibilities.
GOV.UK: the UK Sanctions List — the current official sanctions list and search route.

The next appropriate step

Establish international readiness before selecting the formation route

Begin with the £125 + VAT readiness assessment if the proposed LLP includes a non-UK person, overseas body corporate, foreign ownership chain or material international-documentary fact. If the case is accepted, Coddan will identify the appropriate formation scope and the separate costs that genuinely apply.

Begin the international readiness assessment Return to ordinary UK LLP formation

Assessment and formation remain subject to complete information, evidence, payment, applicable verification, professional clearance where required and Coddan’s acceptance. Companies House controls registration.

International LLP Formation for Non-UK Members.

Establish your UK limited liability partnership from abroad with Coddan, from international readiness and evidence assessment to accepted formation through the route that matches your ownership, participants and documentary requirements.

Start with your international LLP formation facts and evidence, then choose the appropriate readiness, accepted formation or complex international route.

Follow the journey from identifying the international formation requirements to establishing the evidence, selecting the appropriate route and proceeding with the UK LLP formation.