English Company Law - The differences between Public and Private Limited Companies.
Number of companies Public Limited Companies As of December 2019, there were 5,478 public companies registered in the UK (0.1 per cent of the total number of companies) Private limited Companies As of December 2019, there were 4 million private companies registered in the UK (99.9 per cent of the total number of companies) Share capital requirement Public Limited Companies Must have a share capital Private Limited Companies No share capital required, but the vast majority do have a share capital Liability of members Public Limited Companies Must be limited. It is impossible to create an unlimited public company Private Limited Companies Can be limited or unlimited, although the vast majority are limited Public offering of shares Public Limited Companies Can offer to sell its shares to the public at large Private Limited Companies Cannot offer to sell its shares to the public at large Stock exchange listing Public Limited Companies Can list its shares (although the majority do not) Private Limited Companies Cannot list its shares Minimum capital requirement Public Limited Companies Must have an allotted share capital of at least £50,000 Private Limited Companies No minimum capital requirement Minimum number of directors Public Limited Companies Two Private Limited Companies One Suffix required Public Limited Companies Plc Private Limited Companies Ltd Company secretary Public Limited Companies Must appoint a company secretary Private Limited Companies Need not appoint a company secretary, but may do so if it chooses The CA 2006 regulates public companies more stringently than private companies. Listed companies are regulated even more stringently by having to comply with Pt VI of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and the FCA Handbook. The UK Corporate Governance Code applies to companies with a premium listing
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