Register a partnership or LLP with BRS

What you need

• Full names, ID numbers, emails, physical addresses and occupations of every partner and manager
• Passport photos of all partners and managers
• The business address: email, phone number and physical address
• For a law firm: a letter of no objection from LSK
• The system-generated LLP-1 form, signed, scanned and uploaded

Steps

1. Log in to BRS on eCitizen (brsv2.ecitizen.go.ke), open Companies Registry Services and choose Registration of LLP. For an ordinary partnership, choose Registration of a Business Name instead.
2. Enter at least 3 name options and the nature of the business.
3. Add the business address and the details and passport photos of every partner and manager.
4. Download the LLP-1 form the system generates, sign it, scan it and upload it.
5. Pay KSh 25,050 and submit. Once approved, the LLP gets a certificate and becomes a legal entity.

Who can apply

• LLP: at least 2 partners and at least 1 manager. The manager can also be a partner.
• LLPs suit professional firms such as advocates and certified secretaries.
• Ordinary partnership: two or more partners trading under a name other than all their own surnames register it as a business name.
• Limited partnership (LP): at least one general partner and one limited partner.