Best Company Registration Lawyers in Delhi — Verified Advocates

Every Delhi incorporation runs through two registries at once: the MCA's Central Registration Centre, which processes the SPICe+ form online, and the Registrar of Companies, NCT of Delhi & Haryana, on whose register the company lives afterwards. SPICe+ bundles name reservation, DIN for new directors, PAN, TAN, EPFO, ESIC and optional GST into one filing, with stamp duty on the memorandum and articles auto-computed at NCT-of-Delhi rates. Choice of vehicle comes before any form: a Private Limited for anyone raising capital or issuing ESOPs, an LLP (via FiLLiP) for professional and services firms, an OPC for solo founders. Where the entity later fights or restructures, its forum is the NCLT's New Delhi benches — conveniently, in the same city.

The capital's incorporation practice has a distinctly international cast. As the diplomatic and policy capital, Delhi hosts wholly-owned subsidiaries of foreign parents — needing apostilled parent documents, a resident Indian director, sectoral FDI-route checks, and FC-GPR reporting through the AD bank within 30 days of share allotment — alongside two structures rarer elsewhere: liaison offices and branch offices of foreign companies, approved through the AD-bank/RBI route under FEMA rather than incorporated at all. Choosing between a subsidiary, branch and liaison office is a tax and permissible-activity decision, not a formality. For domestic founders, co-working registered offices in Connaught Place, Nehru Place, Okhla and Dwarka are routine — the operator's NOC plus a recent utility bill satisfy the ROC.

Incorporation day starts the compliance clock. Within 30 days: the first auditor and the first board meeting. Within 60 days: share certificates to subscribers. Within 180 days: the INC-20A declaration of commencement, before which the company can neither trade nor borrow — the most commonly missed filing we see. Alongside sit GST registration where applicable and registration under the Delhi Shops and Establishments Act with the GNCTD labour department for the actual workplace. The legal work that pays for itself, though, happens before the CRC ever sees a form: founders' and shareholders' agreements with vesting, IP assignment and exit mechanics — because a startup that skips them is drafting its future Section 241 petition instead.