Limited partnership agreement
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England & Wales
Scotland
- Length:14 pages (9950 words)
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About this document
The Limited Partnerships Act 1907 enables you to set up a trading vehicle where only one partner, known as the general partner or GP, can be liable if things go wrong. This partner can be a private limited company, with its own limitations on liability and few assets. If things go wrong, the assets of the other partners are preserved. Often, all partners are companies.
Limited partnerships (also called LPs) are therefore very useful for high risk ventures in property, finance, mining or research, or for ventures abroad, where there may be political risk.
Unlike the modern LLP, no registration is required and no special rules apply. So far as it is regulated, the 1890 Act applies, as it does to any ordinary partnership.
This professionally drawn agreement is very flexible, so that you can easily edit it to suit the arrangements you have in mind. It overides the archaic terms of the 1890 Act so that the partnership is operated as any modern business would be.
The registration requirement is very light. Free copies of form LP5 (application for registration of Limited Partnership) can be downloaded from here. There is no requirement for submission of returns. This allows secrecy as to the partners and the business to be maintained.
Features
- Assumes the business relates to a single project, short or long term
- Assumes that a corporate general partner will manage the business
- Suitable for any type of project
- Written in plain English
Contents
- Basic provisions
- Limited partnership particulars
- Management of the business
- Banking arrangements
- Records and accounts
- General partners undertaking
- Restrictions on general partner
- Shares
- Capital
- Loans to the business
- Meetings and voting
- On a partner leaving
- Duration and termination
- Other legal provisions
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Recent reviews
The template was an adequate product for my needs. However, in my case I (As an individual) will be the GP, not a company. I had to make a number of alterations in this regard. But that's a minor complaint - and you quite clearly stated that the template was designed under the assumption that a company would be the GP.
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