Application to Convert a Partnership Firm into an LLP

Form 17 is filed when an already-existing, registered partnership firm wants to convert into an LLP, carrying its business forward under the new structure.

It’s submitted together with the LLP’s incorporation application — it doesn’t stand alone. Alongside Form 17, the incorporation also requires LLP Form 2 and Form 3.

Supporting documents include a CA-certified statement of the firm’s assets and liabilities, the firm’s most recent Income Tax Return acknowledgment, and — where the firm has secured creditors — their written consent to the conversion.

Once approved, the Registrar issues a certificate of incorporation, and the erstwhile partnership firm ceases to exist as such, with its assets, liabilities, and obligations carried over to the new LLP.