Starting a new Ltd co. business...with an old name

[P4ulB]

Afternoon all,

Quick bit of history....

About 10 years ago, I set up a company after a redundancy situation with the intention of going self-employed.

I worked on it for a few months and did some business through it, but got an offer of full time employment again which I couldn't turn down. I ran it for a couple of years as a sideline, but couldn't dedicate the time to it, so dissolved it - no debts and no angry people involved.

Fast forward to present day and the full time job is going to be going through it's 4th re-structure in as many years and I've had enough.

I'd like to try again and I've got a customer who is ready to go with me on a retainer basis which is a good starting point and I can work on building it up whilst still in full-time employment.

I always liked the old company name and I have logos etc already produced so the questions are...

1. I appreciate that I can't re-open the old company, but can I start a new company with the same name?
2. If so, any negatives in doing this?

Many thanks for any replies.

Paul

[P4ulB]

Great stuff!

The company was dissolved correctly and no problems with the trading history.

I've already checked that the name is still available - it is and nothing similar to it at all.

Thank you for the replies.