Registering a Limited Company to Protect a Business Name

by Graeme DonnellyLegal
If you want to protect a business name that you are currently using, or you simply want to prohibit another company from using or registering a particular name for any other reason, you can set a UK limited company for these very purposes. No two companies are legally permitted to be registered under the same name, nor can they register names that are so similar to one another they are likely to cause confusion, unless they are part of the same group.…

How to Set Up an Offshore Company

by John StoneManagement
Off-shore companies have been a synonym for dishonest business and tax evading, but in the time of fast technological advancement, when successful business can be run from anywhere in the world, founding a company in countries that ask for less taxes and provide better conditions for startups sound like a very logical thing to do. Before you decide to start your own off-shore company in some of the tax havens around the world, you should ask yourself a few basic questions: Is founding an off-shore company going to cut my business cost?…