Establish your UK limited liability partnership with Coddan, from straightforward registration to initial records, agreed governance and first-year administration through the formation route that matches your requirements.

Explore UK LLP Formation Packages

Start with your settled LLP formation requirements, then choose the appropriate level of registration, opening-record, governance or first-year support.

Establish a UK limited liability partnership for your proposed business once its name, jurisdiction, registered office, members, designated-member arrangements and control information are settled.

Choose from formation-only registration, registration with initial records, governance setup or first-year administration, according to the work your LLP requires at the outset.

Coddan can review your accepted formation particulars, prepare the incorporation information and submit the relevant Companies House filing, with additional records and governance work according to the selected package.

Prepare the member details, designated-member information, registered-office particulars and control information needed for the accepted route, including the required approvals and identity checks before submission.

The formation-only description states a Coddan professional fee of £89 + VAT for two straightforward UK individual members; its package card displays £189 + VAT, so confirm the applicable order price before purchasing.

The Companies House incorporation fee is additional: £100 for standard software filing, £156 for an accepted same-day filing or £124 for paper filing, with separately agreed Coddan work required for the paper route.

Select initial records, suitable standard governance or support through the first confirmation statement where required; the relevant package descriptions state professional fees of £149, £279 and £449 + VAT respectively, with applicable official fees charged separately.

Coddan CPM is an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) and uses a structured preparation and filing process intended to reduce avoidable delays caused by incomplete or inconsistent information; Companies House controls registration acceptance and processing.

Additional members, overseas participation, corporate members or complex ownership arrangements may require supplements or a different accepted route; identity verification, tax work and specialist legal advice remain outside the basic formation-only package.

Once you have confirmed your LLP particulars and selected the appropriate formation package, provide the required information and approvals so Coddan can proceed with the accepted work and relevant Companies House submission.

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Your UK LLP formation route should reflect the members, control arrangements, opening records, governance and first-year support your business actually requires. Incorporation does not itself establish a substantive LLP agreement, transfer assets or contracts, or complete separate tax and accounting obligations.
Call us on: 033 0808 0089 if you need professional assistance with selecting the appropriate UK LLP formation package.

Establish a UK LLP: Professional Partnership Formation & ACSP Compliance

UK LLP formation and organisation

Form a UK Limited Liability Partnership

Register an LLP in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland—and choose how far Coddan should carry the work beyond the Companies House incorporation filing.

Coddan has submitted UK formation work through commercial software since 2005. The service is available for a standard two-member LLP, an organised initial-records route, a governance setup or a first-year administration route. Every application remains subject to complete information, identity and anti-money-laundering checks, payment and Coddan’s acceptance.

Compare the four LLP formation packages Check what Coddan will need

Professional fees: from £89 + VAT. Companies House fee: £100 for standard software incorporation or £156 for the official same-day service, shown separately. The standard packages assume up to two straightforward UK individual members and an ordinary ownership and control position.

This is the formation route when the LLP decision is substantially settled

Use this page where the participants have already recognised that they want an LLP rather than an ordinary limited partnership, Scottish limited partnership or private company, and the proposed structure is ready to be translated into an incorporation instruction.

The standard UK LLP formation route

up to two UK individual members;
a straightforward ownership and PSC position;
a registered office in the chosen UK jurisdiction;
an ordinary lawful business carried on with a view to profit; and
complete identity, authority and filing information.

Assessment or another owner is needed

Overseas people, overseas bodies, layered ownership, trusts, nominee features, unusual control, regulated activity or enhanced due diligence move to the appropriate assessment, international or professional route.

Use the LLP formation route for non-UK and international members

If the instrument itself is not settled, first compare an LLP, ordinary LP and Scottish LP or compare an LLP with a private limited company.

Registration creates the LLP; organisation prepares it to operate

Companies House incorporation creates the LLP as a body corporate with legal personality separate from its members. The certificate confirms registration. It does not, by itself, settle the members’ complete working relationship.

An LLP has members rather than shareholders, designated members rather than directors, and an LLP agreement rather than articles of association. Its formation therefore needs to distinguish the public incorporation filing from the internal and continuing matters that sit around it.

The incorporation filing establishes

the registered LLP and its name;
its jurisdiction and registered office;
its first registered members and designated status;
its registrable PSC position; and
the certificate and filed incorporation particulars.

The filing does not automatically settle

profit, capital, voting, management and exit arrangements;
whether a standard, adapted or bespoke LLP agreement is suitable;
the first internal decisions and records;
accounts and tax administration; or
later confirmation statements, accounts and event-driven filings.

Coddan’s four formation levels let the you select the appropriate stopping point. They do not disguise every possible professional service inside one incorporation price.

What must be established before an LLP can be submitted

A standard incorporation requires more than a proposed name. Coddan needs sufficient information and authority to prepare the filing and complete its acceptance checks.

UK LLP formation information requirements
Formation matter	What is required	Important boundary
Name	A proposed name ending in “Limited Liability Partnership” or “LLP”, subject to name controls and any required permission.	Companies House registration does not confer trade-mark clearance.
Jurisdiction	England and Wales, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, matched to the registered office.	A Scottish or Northern Irish LLP needs a registered office in that jurisdiction.
Members	At least two subscribers, with the required particulars for each individual or body corporate.	The standard UK LLP formation price includes up to two straightforward UK individuals.
Designated members	At least two designated members, or an instruction that all members will be designated.	Designation carries additional statutory filing and administration responsibilities; it is not unlimited liability for every LLP debt.
Registered office and email	An appropriate physical registered office and an appropriate registered email address.	The registered office is public; the registered email is held privately by Companies House.
PSC position	The registrable people with significant control or the applicable statutory statement.	Complex or disputed control requires assessment or professional referral.
Identity and authority	CDD/KYC evidence, required Companies House personal codes and authority for Coddan to act and file.	Identity verification is a separate service unless expressly ordered or included elsewhere.
Business purpose	A lawful business carried on with a view to profit, together with sufficient activity and purpose information for Coddan’s acceptance controls.	The current LL IN01 incorporation particulars do not make capital contributions or a SIC code ordinary incorporation fields.

What Coddan checks, prepares and connects around the filing

Commercial software is an efficient transmission route. Coddan’s formation service applies the approved administrative checks and connects matters that the filing alone does not resolve.

Filing preparation

Coddan checks the proposed name and jurisdiction, captures the registered office and email, prepares member and designated-member particulars, records the instructed PSC position and submits the accepted software application.

Role clarification

The application must identify the proposed members and designated status. Coddan records the your settled instruction and routes an unclear member, corporate-member or PSC position to the specialist assessment owner.

Organisation selected by package

The records, governance or first-year packages connect registration to the approved initial records, agreement route, compliance dates and first confirmation-statement service without implying that every LLP needs the same bundle.

Professional boundary

Coddan does not use the filing review as legal advice, individual tax advice or approval of the your commercial strategy. Agreement disputes, negotiated rights, complex tax conclusions, audit and regulated matters go to the appropriate professional.

Choose the professional outcome required from formation

The four levels share the same standard incorporation base. The difference is the point at which Coddan’s work ends: after registration, after an initial record set, after a completed governance setup, or after the first confirmation-statement service.

Formation level 1

LLP Registration

£89 + VAT

A correctly prepared standard LLP incorporation submitted through Coddan’s software.

name and jurisdiction check;
standard application review;
software submission;
digital certificate of incorporation; and
filed incorporation particulars.

Separate: Companies House fee, identity verification, address service, LLP agreement, accounts and later filings.

Select LLP Registration

Formation level 2

Registration & Initial Records

£149 + VAT

Formation plus an organised first internal record set for the registered LLP.

everything in LLP Registration;
initial member and designated-member record;
member certificates where appropriate;
first-record and resolution pack; and
initial compliance-date schedule.

Separate: agreement work, address subscription, annual accounts, confirmation-statement service and official fees.

Select Registration & Records

Formation level 3

Governance Setup

£279 + VAT

Formation, records and a completed standard governance framework based on the accepted instructions.

everything in Registration & Initial Records;
completed or adapted standard LLP agreement;
initial governance documents; and
one structured clarification round.

Separate: legal or tax advice, negotiated or bespoke clauses, address services, accounts and annual compliance.

Apply for Governance Setup

Formation level 4

First-Year Administration

£449 + VAT

Governance setup connected to the first confirmation-statement professional service.

everything in Governance Setup;
filing-calendar setup;
preparation and submission of the first confirmation statement; and
one standard change event before that statement.

Separate: £50 confirmation-statement official fee when due, accounts, identity verification, address renewal, complex changes, tax, VAT, EORI and banking.

Apply for First-Year Administration

Ordering control: levels 1 and 2 may be selected online subject to eligibility and KYC. Levels 3 and 4 use a questionnaire and human acceptance because the governance instruction must fit the approved document scope. Submission of information is not automatic acceptance of an engagement.

One-off fee, official charge and later costs remain distinct

LLP formation commercial continuity
Cost layer	Current treatment	When it applies
Coddan professional fee	£89, £149, £279 or £449 + VAT	One-off, according to the selected formation level.
Companies House software fee	£100 standard or £156 same-day, separately itemised	Paid for the incorporation filing. Coddan’s invoicing applies the approved VAT treatment.
Paper filing	£124 Companies House fee plus separately agreed Coddan work	Only where the paper route is requested, required or accepted as appropriate.
First confirmation statement	Professional service included only in level 4; £50 official fee separate when payable	When the first confirmation statement becomes due.
Recurring Coddan service	None created automatically by formation	Address, accounting or managed-compliance services renew only if separately selected and affirmatively accepted.
Additional complexity	Disclosed supplement, assessment or quotation	More than two members, corporate members, overseas evidence, layered control, trusts, enhanced due diligence or non-standard professional work.

Each additional straightforward UK individual member beyond the two-person allowance carries a £35 + VAT supplement. A UK body-corporate member carries a £125 + VAT supplement. Overseas people, overseas bodies and complex ownership are not forced through the standard checkout; they move to international assessment or individual quotation.

From settled LLP instruction to registered and organised LLP

Select the formation outcome

Choose registration only, registration with initial records, governance setup or first-year administration.

Provide the structured information

Supply the name, jurisdiction, addresses, member particulars, designated status, PSC facts, business purpose and contact information.

Complete verification and acceptance

Coddan completes its CDD/KYC and risk-acceptance process and establishes whether identity codes, additional evidence, assessment or referral are required.

Review and authorise the filing

Coddan prepares the accepted application. The you resolves queries and gives the required authority and confirmations before submission.

Submit to Companies House

Coddan transmits the accepted software filing or coordinates an agreed paper route. Companies House controls examination, processing and registration.

Deliver and organise

After incorporation, Coddan supplies the package documents and connects the LLP to its agreed records, governance or first-year administration outcome.

Timing: Coddan’s standard operational target is submission within one Coddan working day after complete evidence, cleared payment, KYC acceptance and signed authority. Same-day filing is available only for an accepted, complete instruction received before Coddan’s published cut-off on a Companies House working day. Companies House’s own service deadline is not Coddan’s acceptance cut-off, and neither route guarantees registration or removes registrar queries.

Identity verification and PSC information are formation dependencies

Under the current Companies House framework, proposed individual LLP members must verify their identities and supply the required personal-code information for the incorporation route. PSCs have their own verification and personal-code duties. Companies House identifies verification for corporate LLP members as a later implementation stage.

Coddan CPM Limited is registered with Companies House as an ACSP and can provide identity verification within its approved process. The detailed evidence, liveness, review, personal-code and exception route remains owned by the specialist LLP identity-verification service.

Use Coddan’s LLP identity-verification route

The formation documents have different legal and organisational functions

Companies House issues the certificate of incorporation. Coddan supplies the filed particulars and, according to the package, may prepare the LLP’s initial records, decisions, member certificates and governance documents in digital or printed format.

Certificate of incorporation: official evidence that the LLP has been incorporated.
Filed incorporation particulars: the registered information forming the initial Companies House record.
Initial records and decisions: internal evidence of the first organisational position where included.
Member certificates: non-statutory evidence of recorded membership; they are not company share certificates.
LLP agreement: the private governance agreement among the members; it is not issued, filed or approved by Companies House.

A standard or completed agreement may be appropriate for some circumstances. Negotiated rights, bespoke provisions, disputes or enforceability opinions require a separately scoped document route or solicitor advice.

Compare the LLP agreement and governance routes

A defined route through the LLP formation administration

The your friction is not merely completing a form. It is knowing which facts belong in the filing, what the selected package will produce, what remains separate and what must happen next.

Guided information collection

Coddan’s online route groups the formation information into defined subjects instead of asking for an unstructured instruction. This makes the information-provision stage easier to follow and can make that bounded stage quicker when the facts and documents are ready.

Clear package stopping points

Each level states where Coddan’s included work ends and identifies official fees, recurring services and circumstance-dependent work separately. That makes the commercial route more straightforward without pretending that every LLP is legally simple.

Online safeguards

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 process; they are not a claim that every aspect of online security is risk-free.

External processing remains external

Coddan controls its collection, checking, preparation and submission stages. Companies House controls examination and registration; HMRC and other professionals control their own work and decisions. Efficient preparation is not a guarantee of external processing time or acceptance.

The capacities supporting Coddan’s LLP formation work

Formation agent since 2005

Coddan receives and checks accepted instructions, prepares the required LLP filing and submits through commercial software or an agreed paper route. “Formation agent” describes the work performed; it is not a claim of government endorsement.

HMRC-supervised TCSP

Coddan CPM Limited operates as a trust or company service provider supervised by HMRC for anti-money-laundering purposes. This supports Coddan’s CDD, KYC and acceptance controls; it does not mean HMRC approves an individual package or you.

Companies House-registered ACSP

Coddan CPM Limited is registered as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider and may verify identities and carry out authorised-agent work within its approved process. Registration is not Companies House endorsement and does not guarantee an incorporation outcome.

The LLP’s obligations continue after incorporation

Formation does not include every later service. The LLP must maintain its registered particulars and records, prepare annual accounts, submit confirmation statements, keep its identity and PSC position current, and report relevant changes.

Prepare and file LLP annual accounts

File an LLP confirmation statement or manage the compliance calendar

Change an LLP name

Change the LLP’s address or records particulars

Specialist owners being constructed:

LLP members, designated members, corporate members and PSCs
LLP agreements and governance
LLP registered office, member service addresses and records
Changes to members, designated status and PSC particulars

Current official position used for this service

The formation requirements and fees on this page were checked against the official position available on 22 September 2026. Coddan will recheck changeable official requirements before you rely on the service or submit a filing and submission.

Official guidance explains the filing requirements; it does not determine whether an LLP is the appropriate commercial or tax structure for a particular you. Legal and fact-specific tax conclusions require the appropriate professional adviser.

Proceed through the appropriate route

Form the LLP—and select the organisational outcome you actually need

Compare the four levels if the UK LLP, members and ordinary control position are settled. Use the international route where overseas or complex ownership facts change the acceptance and evidence work.

Return to the four UK LLP packages Use the international LLP route

Companies House decides whether and when an application is registered. Coddan does not guarantee acceptance, registration or an external processing time.

UK LLP Setup and Formation Services.

Establish your UK limited liability partnership with Coddan, from straightforward registration to initial records, agreed governance and first-year administration through the formation route that matches your requirements.

Start with your settled LLP formation requirements, then choose the appropriate level of registration, opening-record, governance or first-year support.

Follow the journey from defining your LLP requirements to selecting the appropriate formation package, completing registration and establishing the required ongoing support.