Services
Private limited, LLP, OPC and partnership registration through ROC Chandigarh — the registrar for Punjab, Chandigarh and Himachal — with the objects, capital and agreement drafted for where the business is going, not just where it starts. Tricity office, partner-led, and pan-India incorporations filed remotely.
What you get
A company registered through a web portal is a certificate. A company registered by a chartered accountant is a structure — chosen against how it will be funded and how its profits will be taken out, drafted for the business it will become, and running by the time its first quarter closes. The filing is the same form on the same portal. The difference is everything around it.
The Registrar of Companies, Chandigarh processes incorporations for Punjab, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh, so a startup in Mohali’s IT City, a trading firm in Kharar, a clinic in Zirakpur and a manufacturer in Baddi all incorporate through the same office. We have filed with it since 2011.
What you get
Working days to certificate
5–10
Private limited or OPC via SPICe+; LLPs 7–12 via FiLLiP, subject to name approval.
Structures compared in writing
4
Pvt Ltd, LLP, OPC and partnership scored against your funding and profit plan before anything is filed.
Days on the INC-20A clock
180
Calendared from the certificate date, with capital paid in and the declaration filed inside our fee.
Most incorporation mistakes are made before the first field is filled. A founder registers an LLP for its simplicity and meets an investor eighteen months later who cannot invest in it. A solo consultant registers an OPC and inherits a company’s audit for a one-person practice. A trading business incorporates a company and discovers its profits are taxed twice on the way to the owner’s account.
We start every engagement with a written one-page comparison across the four structures, scored against four questions: will you raise equity; will you take profits out or reinvest them; how many founders and how equal are their roles; and what do your customers and lenders need to see. Our public guide to choosing between Pvt Ltd, LLP, OPC and partnership sets out the framework; the engagement applies it to your numbers.
Why it matters
The portal route
Our engagement
Local detail
ROC Chandigarh processes every filing, but stamp duty on the memorandum, articles or LLP agreement follows the state of the registered office. A Mohali or Kharar office pays Punjab rates on authorised capital; a Chandigarh office pays the UT’s. We compute both before the capital is set, because the difference on a high authorised capital is real money.
Punjab levies professional tax on employers and employees, and SPICe+ registers the company for it at incorporation. Chandigarh does not levy it. Founders who move the registered office across the boundary later inherit a registration they may not need — or miss one they do.
Mohali’s IT City and Chandigarh’s startup ecosystem produce a steady stream of DPIIT-eligible companies. Recognition unlocks the Section 80-IAC three-year tax holiday, angel-tax relief and self-certification under labour and environment laws. We file the application alongside incorporation where the business qualifies — our DPIIT service covers the criteria.
A large share of Tricity incorporations involve a founder in Canada, the UK, Australia or the Gulf. Foreign directors and shareholders are permitted in a private limited company under the FDI rules, with apostilled KYC and, for some sectors, prior approval. We handle the FEMA reporting — the FC-GPR filing after share allotment — that portal registrations omit entirely.
Incorporation is the first fortnight. The obligations that follow it — the first board meeting within 30 days, the auditor’s appointment, share certificates within 60, the LLP agreement filing, GST registration when the threshold or the first inter-state sale arrives, the TDS machinery before the first salary — are where new companies pick up their first penalties. Our guide to the first 90 days after incorporation sets out every deadline; the engagement handles them. From the first year-end, ROC and secretarial compliance takes over the annual calendar, and automated compliance puts every date on a monitored tracker.
The portal will register any structure you ask it to. It will not tell you that the one you asked for cannot take the cheque you will be offered next year.
Methodology
A 30-minute call and a one-page written comparison: private limited, LLP, OPC or partnership, scored against whether you will raise equity, how you will take profits out, how many founders there are, and what your customers and lenders expect to see. We tell you which we would choose and why.
Three name options ranked by approval likelihood on the MCA portal, director or partner KYC verified, Class 3 digital signatures issued, and DINs applied through the incorporation form itself. Tricity clients can complete KYC at our Kharar office; everyone else does it over a video call.
Objects clause written for the business you will be running in five years. Authorised and paid-up capital set with the next round and stamp duty in mind. For an LLP, an agreement that actually reflects the partners' deal on profit share, remuneration, decision rights, exit and deadlock — the template on the portal reflects none of it.
SPICe+ (companies) or FiLLiP (LLPs) filed with the Registrar of Companies, Chandigarh — the registrar for Punjab, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh — with PAN, TAN, EPFO, ESIC and Punjab professional tax registrations in the same form. We handle every resubmission request so the founders never speak to the portal.
Bank account opened, capital paid in, first board meeting minuted, auditor appointed in ADT-1, LLP agreement filed in Form 3, share certificates issued and stamped, INC-20A filed, GST and TDS set up — every deadline tracked, so the company that reaches its first quarter is running, not merely registered.
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Common questions
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Entity selection, MCA filing, and Day-1 operating readiness — engineered for founders who want a structure built for funding, scale, and clean compliance from the first board resolution.
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Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll scope the engagement, confirm deliverables, and give you a fixed-fee proposal within 48 hours.