A private limited company can have a minimum of 1 shareholder and a maximum of 50 shareholders.
A minimum of two shareholders and a maximum of up to 200 shareholders are allowed in a private limited company. The shareholders could be natural persons or companies, including foreign companies.
To clarify, private companies can only have fifty (50), non-employee shareholders. Importantly, this means that your company can have more than fifty (50) shareholders, if they are employees. Additionally, the law does not limit private companies to fifty (50) shares.
Shareholders: The Basics
A private company must have a minimum of one shareholder and a maximum of 50 shareholders that aren’t employees or shareholders connected with crowd sourced funding offers.
Private limited company
There must be a minimum of 2 shareholders and a maximum of 200.
By the time your company has reached this stage, you are likely to have a significant number of non-employee shareholders. However, once the number of non-employee shareholders exceeds 50, you must change your company structure from a private company to a public company.
Shareholding. … A private limited company must have a minimum of two shareholders. Therefore, 100% of the shares of a private limited company cannot be held by a single person.
Shareholders are otherwise known as the members of a company. Under the Companies Act, 2013, any person can become a shareholder and a person could mean an individual, body corporate, an association or a company irrespective of its incorporation.
The Section further says private companies can have a maximum of 200 members (except for One Person Companies). This number does not include present and former employees who are also members. Moreover, more than two persons who own shares jointly are treated as a single member.
With a PLC you need a minimum of two shareholders, but a private limited company will only need one. There needs to be a minimum of two Directors registered within a PLC.