ACROBAT CORPORATE SERVICES LTD.

🌳Matureactive
03515099 · ltd · incorporated 1998-02-23
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2026
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Bookkeeping activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 70229Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£229£459£688£918£1kMar 2025Mar 2026

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2026-03-312025-03-31
Total assets—£865
Current assets—£1.1k
Net assets—£865

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-07-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-06-24
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2024-06-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-06-22
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2024-06-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2024-06-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2024-06-22
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  9. 2024-06-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2023-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-07-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-06-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-09-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-07-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-08-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 1998-02-23
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    Company incorporated
    As ACROBAT CORPORATE SERVICES LTD.
  18. 1998-02-23
    ➕
    ROTHSCHILD, David Ralph appointed
    secretary
  19. 1998-02-23
    ➕
    ROTHSCHILD, David Ralph appointed
    director
  20. 1998-02-23
    ➕
    ROTHSCHILD, Ruth Madeline appointed
    director
  21. 1998-02-23
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1998-02-23
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

91/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr David Ralph Rothschild
Individual · British · DOB 03/1951 · age 75
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-02-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC69202 — Bookkeeping activities

Registered office

The Old Endeavour
Shatterling
Canterbury
CT3 1JP
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-12-31
Last made up to: 2026-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-09
Last: 2026-02-23

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ROTHSCHILD, David Ralph→
secretary · appointed 1998-02-23
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Active
ROTHSCHILD, David Ralph→
director · ~75y · appointed 1998-02-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ROTHSCHILD, Ruth Madeline→
director · ~78y · appointed 1998-02-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-02-23 · resigned 1998-02-23
Resigned

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Recent filings (68 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-06-24
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-22
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-06-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-22
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-06-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-11-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-07-07