Company Name Change — MCA Filing

Governed by Section 13(2), Companies Act 2013, read with Rule 29, Companies (Incorporation) Rules 2014. Process: check and reserve the proposed new name through the RUN (Reserve Unique Name) service under Rule 9; pass a Board resolution followed by a special resolution (filed with the Registrar in Form MGT-14 within 30 days of passing); then apply for approval in Form INC-24. On approval, the Registrar issues a fresh Certificate of Incorporation in Form INC-25 reflecting the new name — the company's CIN and date of incorporation are unaffected. Under Section 12(3), every place of business, and all letterheads, negotiable instruments and the company seal, must be updated to the new name within a reasonable time of the change taking effect. A name change is not permitted while the company is under a moratorium or subject to certain insolvency/NCLT restrictions, and cannot be used to bypass an undertaking-name direction issued under Section 16.

A company name change is a legal process under the Companies Act 2013 that alters the company's name in its Memorandum of Association and on the MCA record. The company must pass a special resolution under Section 13 — the alteration of the Memorandum — obtain the Central Government's approval for the new name (the application is filed in Form INC-24), and file the special resolution with the Registrar in Form MGT-14 under Section 117. The name must itself satisfy the availability rules of Section 4 — not identical to an existing name, not undesirable, and within the name guidelines.

The name is the company's identity in every system that matters: the MCA record, the bank account, the GST registration, the trademark, the contracts and the invoices. A rebranding without the statutory name change leaves two identities in circulation — the marketing name customers see and the legal name on the documents — which is exactly the split that confuses banks, customers and the tax authorities when they reconcile documents.

Changing the name informally is a quiet trap. The company that prints new letterheads but never files INC-24 and MGT-14 has, legally, the old name — its contracts, its bank account and its GST registration all carry a name that no longer matches its own stationery, and the MCA record contradicts the company's public face. Undoing that split later costs more than doing the change properly first.

This service is for companies rebranding or correcting their names. We check the new name's availability under Section 4, prepare the special resolution under Section 13, file Form INC-24 for approval and Form MGT-14 for the resolution, and then update the operational identity — GST, bank, PAN records, trademark, contracts and invoice sets — so the legal name and the business name are one.