Private Limited Company Registration

Companies Act, 2013 — incorporation framework for a Private Limited Company:

• Section 3 — a private company can be incorporated with a minimum of two members (maximum 200, excluding certain categories of employee-shareholders); a One Person Company (OPC) is a separate sub-category with a single member.


• Section 4 — the Memorandum of Association (MOA) must state the company's name (ending in 'Private Limited'), registered office state, objects, liability clause, and capital clause; name approval is obtained through the SPICe+ Part-A process, subject to the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014 naming guidelines.


• Section 7 — incorporation is applied for through the integrated SPICe+ (Simplified Proforma for Incorporating Company Electronically Plus) web form on the MCA portal, which bundles name reservation, incorporation, DIN allotment for directors, PAN and TAN application, and EPFO/ESIC/Profession Tax registration (state-dependent) into a single filing accompanied by the MOA (Form INC-33) and Articles of Association (AOA, Form INC-34).


• On verification, the Registrar of Companies issues a Certificate of Incorporation, which is conclusive evidence that all requirements of the Act have been complied with in respect of registration.


• A minimum of two directors is required (at least one resident in India for 182+ days in the previous calendar year), and the company must obtain its Certificate of Incorporation, PAN, and TAN before commencing business operations and opening a current bank account in the company's name.

Private limited company registration is the incorporation of a company under the Companies Act 2013 and the Companies (Incorporation) Rules 2014 — the SPICe+ form incorporation with the proposed name, the directors and the shareholders, the DINs and the DSCs, the registered office, and the certificate of incorporation — followed by the PAN, the TAN, the bank account and the GST. The private limited company is the standard corporate form for the Indian business: the limited liability, the separate legal entity, the perpetual succession and the transferable shares.

The private limited company is the structure that most businesses grow into — the corporate identity that can hold the assets, raise the capital, enter the contracts and survive the founders — and its incorporation is the foundation of everything the company will do. The process runs under the Companies Act through the SPICe+ form, and the incorporation certificate is the company's birth certificate. The choices at incorporation — the name, the capital, the directors, the objects — are the company's first statutory records.

The cost of a defective incorporation is the company that starts wrong: the name that conflicts and the rebrand, the capital structure that does not fit the funding, the objects that do not cover the business, the compliance that was never set up. The incorporation is the cheapest place to get the structure right.

This service is for founders and businesses incorporating a private limited company. We assess the name and the structure, obtain the DINs and the DSCs, prepare and file the SPICe+ incorporation with the MoA and the AoA, obtain the certificate of incorporation and the CIN, and set up the PAN, the TAN, the bank account, the GST and the compliance calendar — so the company starts with its structure and its machinery in place.