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Company restoration · Northern Ireland

Company Restoration

Has your limited company been struck off the Companies House register? Whether you need to recover assets, access frozen bank accounts or continue trading, we can bring your business back to life. Belfast-based, with over 30 years’ experience.

Get a restoration quote Call 028 9055 9955

  • Established 1994
  • From £450 incl. statutory fees
  • Belfast-based local team

Why is a company struck off, and what is restoration?

A company can be removed from the Companies House register for several reasons:

  • Failure to file accounts — Companies House dissolves companies that don’t submit annual accounts on time.
  • Missing confirmation statements — formerly annual returns; failing to file these triggers strike-off.
  • Voluntary dissolution — directors may have struck the company off, then found remaining assets or liabilities.
  • Non-compliance — other regulatory failures can lead to compulsory strike-off.

Once dissolved, a company ceases to exist as a legal entity: bank accounts are frozen, contracts become void, and company assets — including money in bank accounts — pass to the Crown (a process known as bona vacantia). Restoration brings the company back so you can recover them.

Two paths to restoration

1. Administrative restoration

Available in certain cases — typically where Companies House struck the company off for not filing accounts or a confirmation statement, and it was still trading at the time. There’s a six-year limit.

From £450 incl. statutory fees

2. Restoration by court order

Where you don’t qualify for administrative restoration — for example if you applied to strike the company off voluntarily — an application is made to the High Court. A six-year limit applies (up to 20 years for a personal injury claim).

Price by quotation

FAQs

Get a restoration quote

Send us the company details and our Belfast team will tell you which restoration route applies and what it costs.