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Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator

• Overview

  You can choose to liquidate your limited company (also called ‘winding up’…

• Arrange liquidation with your creditors

  A director can propose a company stops trading and be liquidated (‘wound…

• Apply directly to the court

  A director can ask a court to order the company to stop trading and be…

• Liquidate a company you do not want to run anymore

  You may choose members’ voluntary liquidation if your company is ‘solvent’…

• What the liquidator does

  The liquidator is an authorised insolvency practitioner or official…

• What happens to directors

  When a liquidator is appointed, directors: no longer have control of the…

• Access to your bank account

  Your company’s bank account will be frozen when someone files a petition…

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Insolvency and your limited company.

• Updated: 7 July 2023

Use this form to give notice of removal by court order in members' voluntary liquidation or creditors' voluntary liquidation.

Use this form to give notice of removal of a liquidator by creditors.

Tell Companies House of an order deferring the date of dissolution in members' voluntary liquidation or creditors' voluntary liquidation, for a company registered in Scotland.

Use this form to give notice of deceased liquidator in members' voluntary liquidation and creditors' voluntary liquidation.

Use this form to give notice of a liquidator's resignation in members' voluntary liquidation or creditors' voluntary liquidation.

Use this form to give notice of appointment of liquidator in winding up by the court.

Use this form as the liquidator's certificate that the creditors of the company have been paid in full.