Whether you need to recover assets, access frozen bank accounts, or continue trading, our expert company restoration services can help bring your business back to life.
Based in Belfast with over 30 years’ experience, The Company Shop has helped thousands of business owners restore dissolved companies quickly and efficiently.
A company can be removed from the Companies House register for several reasons:
Failure to file accounts – Companies House will dissolve companies that don’t submit their annual accounts on time
Missing confirmation statements – Previously known as annual returns, failing to file these triggers the strike-off process
Voluntary dissolution – Directors may have requested the company be struck off, only to later discover remaining assets or ongoing liabilities
Non-compliance – Other regulatory failures can also lead to compulsory strike-off
Once a limited company is dissolved, it ceases to exist as a legal entity. This means bank accounts are frozen, contracts become void, and all company assets—including money held in bank accounts—automatically pass to the Crown (a process known as “bona vacantia”).
Depending on why or how your company was struck off there are two paths to restoration
Administrative Restoration for a struck off or dissolved company can only be used in certain circumstances for example it would be appropriate, where the company has been struck off by Companies House for failing to file accounts or an annual return and was in operation at the time of strike off. There is a six year limit on this type of restoration.
If you do not qualify to make an administrative restoration because for example, you applied voluntarily to strike off the company, then application must be made to the High Court. As with the Administrative Restoration, where is a 6 year limit on restorations. However, there the company is being restored in the case of a personal injury claim; the time limit is 20 years.
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