First decide the organisation—not the label

This page is for a UK or international group considering an LLP to provide services, trade, employ people, contract, distribute products, exploit rights or perform another defined UK operating function. A group description is not enough. The business, participants, control, evidence and implementation route must be established.

A03 explains the complete LLP-versus-company comparison. P2-02 applies only the group-operating boundary.

Members are not shareholders

An LLP does not issue shares. A corporate member holds a membership interest, not shares in the LLP. Capital contribution, profit share, voting power, beneficial ownership and PSC status must each be established from the applicable facts and documents.

“Subsidiary” needs evidence, not shorthand

Company-law concepts of an undertaking, parent undertaking and subsidiary undertaking can depend on voting, appointment, dominant-influence or unified-management facts. Incorporation does not prove that relationship, and P2-02 never describes the LLP automatically as a share subsidiary.

Map the whole ownership and control chain

A dated chart must reach through every intermediate entity to natural-person ultimate beneficial owners. It must show economic interests, voting and appointment rights, vetoes, trusts, nominees and other control. The chart supports review; it is not itself a PSC, sanctions or foreign-law conclusion.

LLP membership, designated-member duties, internal authority, beneficial ownership, control and PSC status are distinct. Identity verification confirms identity only. Companies House implementation for LLP roles is staged, so the filing-date requirement and personal-code route must be checked at acceptance. A06 complete role explanation — controlled non-clicking placeholder.

Corporate existence, capacity and authority

For every corporate member, establish legal form, registry, governing law, constitutional capacity, current status, authorised representatives and signatory authority. Overseas registry evidence or a signature is not automatically enough; foreign-law or documentary confirmation may be required.

A UK operating plan must be real and evidenced

Identify services or goods, markets, customers, suppliers, contracts, management, staff, premises, systems, licences, assets, IP, funding and banking. Incorporation or a UK registered office does not alone create substantive activity, tax residence, management and control or a permanent establishment.

Formation is not group implementation

Intercompany services, funding, guarantees, security, IP, employment, transfer pricing, VAT, tax residence, permanent establishment, treaty access, consolidation, foreign recognition and banking remain separate decisions and workstreams.

KYC, AML and sanctions review can require evidence beyond a registry name. Opaque or inconsistent ownership, absent authority, unacceptable risk or missing professional clearance can cause a focused HOLD, referral or refusal. P2-02 does not give sanctions clearance.

The statutory defaults are rarely a group-control plan

Unless an agreement provides otherwise, statutory defaults include equal capital and profit shares, every member’s management right, no management remuneration, unanimous consent for a new member or voluntary assignment, majority decisions on ordinary matters, unanimity to change the nature of the business, and no expulsion without an express power.

A07 bespoke LLP agreement and governance — controlled non-clicking placeholder. A standard A04 agreement can record only settled internal governance after A05/accepted assessment. It cannot create intercompany, funding, IP, employment, tax, transfer-pricing, foreign-law, banking or regulatory documents.

Fifteen-condition standard-agreement fit test

1. Every proposed member and authorised decision-maker is identified.
2. The complete group, ownership, UBO, control and potential PSC structure is known.
3. Each corporate participant’s legal existence and status are evidenced.
4. Corporate capacity, authority, signatory and constitutional requirements are settled.
5. The genuine UK operating business and commercial purpose are clearly defined.
6. UK activities, contracts, management and operational arrangements are settled.
7. Member contributions and economic rights are settled.
8. Management, voting, reserved decisions and authority are settled.
9. Approved clauses can accurately record the internal instructions.
10. No ownership, authority, control, capacity, contribution or entitlement dispute remains.
11. No unresolved foreign-law or corporate-capacity question remains.
12. No intercompany, funding, IP, employment, asset-transfer or operational agreement is included.
13. No tax, PE, treaty, transfer-pricing, VAT, withholding, consolidation or accounting conclusion is included.
14. No foreign-law, documentary, sanctions, AML, banking, regulatory or third-party conclusion is treated as formation work.
15. Coddan’s human review confirms that the approved standard scope fits.

Classification C: assessment and written quotation first

Provide the complete group chart, registry and constitutional evidence, authorities, signatories, PSC analysis, identity/address information, UK operating plan and known professional conclusions. Coddan then defines the formation scope and separately owned dependencies. No general Phase 2 assessment product, name, price, credit or checkout route is created.

A05 assessment and written-quotation destination — controlled non-clicking placeholder

Commercial route · secondary to suitability

A05 first; no A04 level is directly offered

A05 owns overseas members, corporate participants, international chains, foreign evidence and complex international formation. Only after A05 or accepted assessment confirms eligibility may an A04 level become the base for an accepted formation. A04 remains the sole package owner.

Controlled two-person assumption. Supplements: £35 + VAT for an additional straightforward UK individual member and £125 + VAT for an accepted UK body-corporate member.

VAT and Companies House fees are separate. Current official reference fees: £100 digital/software incorporation; £156 same-day software incorporation where available; £124 paper incorporation; and £50 digital confirmation statement. Identity, address, foreign evidence, documentary and professional costs are separate.

L4 has a defined first-year scope. Any later renewal requires affirmative acceptance; there is no automatic or indefinite renewal.

A05 — international and non-UK LLP formation gateway · A04 — UK LLP formation and package owner

Registration is the beginning of organisation

The certificate creates the LLP. It does not implement the group’s authority, services, funding, IP, people, tax, accounting, banking, data, insurance or regulatory systems.

Continue to maintain accurate member, designated-member, PSC, ownership/control, registered-office, accounting and filing records. A09 — LLP annual accounts and A10 — LLP confirmation statements retain their complete subjects.

What a controlled outcome looks like

Controlled destinations and page status

Confirmed live: A03, A04, A05, A09 and A10. Non-clicking placeholders: A06, A07, A08; P2-01, P2-03, P2-13 and every other Phase 2 page; A05 assessment/application; A04 ordering/application; written quotation; and tax, accounting, transfer-pricing, foreign-law, documentary, banking, sanctions, regulatory and legal professional destinations.

P2-02 owner URL remains on HOLD

No P2-09 page, URL or destination exists. No application form, checkout, client portal, redirect or live-site alteration has been created by this production file.