For US and other foreign companies
Your Indian subsidiary can use your company’s name with "India" or an Indian place added, if no Indian company already has it. Type your legal name to check.
Source: the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) register on data.gov.in.
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Then our company setup team takes your Indian company from the name to a working bank account, usually in about 60 days.
Your Indian company, step by stepFrom your enquiry to a working bank account
Your legal name, where you want to be and what the company will do.
The name forms most likely to pass, the trademark check and your documents list.
We prepare the incorporation documents for signature and file them in India.
Bank account, capital and registrations done.
For India subsidiaries of global businesses
For companies across sectors and geographies
For clients who outsource their back office
“LegalJini is our compliance partner for our Indian subsidiary since the time we thought to enter India market. Jatin and his team have provided efficient professional services for smooth landing of our company in Mumbai with all the required compliances.”
Yes, with "India" or an Indian state or city added, such as "Acme Analytics India Private Limited", if no Indian company has a name the Registrar would treat as the same.
Google India Private Limited (2003), IBM India Private Limited (1997), SAP India Private Limited (1996) and Salesforce.com India Private Limited (2005) all add "India" to the parent’s name.
Add a distinctive word, such as "Acme Analytics Solutions India Private Limited". If your name is a registered Indian trademark, a company registered in the last 3 years can be made to change its name.
You can reserve the name without one. A registered mark does let you challenge a company that copies your name within 3 years of its registration.
Only if you use your parent’s name as it is. A name with a different distinctive word does not need it.
MCA’s standard is 1 working day. The name is then held for 20 days, extendable to 60.
Its board passes a resolution approving the subsidiary and its name, signed by an authorised representative. We send the wording.
MCA uses this label for an Indian company controlled by a foreign company; you see it as the sub-category in its master data. Older subsidiaries are often labelled "Non-government company" instead.
You need two directors, one resident in India for 182 days a year, two shareholders, usually the parent and a nominee, an Indian registered office, and the parent’s documents, notarised and apostilled where needed. Investors from countries bordering India need government approval.
Yes. Because a private company needs two shareholders, a nominee usually holds one share for the parent.
No. "Limited" marks a public company, which may offer shares to the public and needs three directors; "Private Limited" marks a private one, which needs two. Neither says anything about size.
Send your company’s legal name and where in India you want to be. We come back with the name forms most likely to pass and a plan for the set-up.
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Company and LLP data: Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Registrars of Companies (RoC)-wise Company Master Data, and Company Master Data of Chhattisgarh up to 31 March 2021, Open Government Data Platform India. Published under the Government Open Data License (India). The Ministry does not endorse these tools; check a final name on MCA before you file.
