company name changes

We advise not just on the procedures to follow to validly change a business’ name, but also on the regulatory and commercial frameworks that govern precisely what a business can and cannot be called.
 

White & Black can assist with:

• avoiding  the infringement of a third party’s intellectual property rights;
• protecting intellectual property rights;
• the requirements surrounding how and when a business name must be published and displayed;
• the procedures to follow to effect a change of name, whether these are internal (shareholder and board resolutions for example) or external (Companies House filings and representations to the Secretary of State for example);
• exemptions from using the word “limited” in a company name;
• directions from the Secretary of State requiring a business to change its name; and
• bringing and contesting objections to opportunistic registrations of similar business names.