Guidance

Legal forms for business: a guide

Defines unincorporated and incorporated businesses.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 11 November 2011

Documents

A guide to legal forms for business.

Ref: BIS/11/1399

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Defines unincorporated and incorporated businesses. Unincorporated forms include the sole trader, unincorporated association, partnership, limited partnership, and the trust. Incorporated forms include the limited company, limited liability partnership (LLP), community interest company (CIC), charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), industrial and providential society, and financial mutuals. See also:

• guide to legal forms for social enterprises
• guide to legal forms for mutual ownership models

Published 11 November 2011