ACL ATLANTIC LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
06320524 · ltd · incorporated 2007-07-23
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 11.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (80/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 11.4y
70/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 11.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (76/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
63 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-07-31 | 2024-07-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 200 | 200 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
- 2026-02-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2024-04-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2022-08-02📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-07-26📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-07-26📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-07-25📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-07-25📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-07-25📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-07-25📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-07-25📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-04-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2021-02-22📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2021-02-22📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2021-02-22🔓Charge satisfied #2
- 2021-02-22🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2020-12-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-08-20📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2020-08-06➖LYNCH, Angela Elizabeth resignedsecretary
- 2020-04-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2019-08-23📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2019-08-21🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Santander UK PLC as Security Trustee
- 2014-11-25🔒Charge registered #1Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2007-11-29➕ASARO, Susan appointeddirector
- 2007-07-23🏢Company incorporatedAs ACL ATLANTIC LIMITED
- 2007-07-23➕LYNCH, Anthony Charles appointeddirector
- 2007-07-23➕LYNCH, Angela Elizabeth appointedsecretary
- 2007-07-23➕UK SECRETARIES LTD appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2007-07-23➖UK SECRETARIES LTD resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2007-07-23➕UK DIRECTORS LTD appointedcorporate-director
- 2007-07-23➖UK DIRECTORS LTD resignedcorporate-director
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Anthony Charles Lynch Individual · British · DOB 11/1976 · age 50 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 23/07/2016 |
Mrs Susan Asaro Individual · British · DOB 05/1963 · age 63 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 23/07/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2007-07-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46380 — Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs
Registered office
112/114 Whitegate Drive
Blackpool
FY3 9XH
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-06
Last: 2025-07-23
Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)
ASARO, Susan→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2007-11-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
LYNCH, Anthony Charles→
Activedirector · ~50y · appointed 2007-07-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
LYNCH, Angela Elizabeth→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2007-07-23 · resigned 2020-08-06
UK SECRETARIES LTD→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2007-07-23 · resigned 2007-07-23
UK DIRECTORS LTD→
Resignedcorporate-director · appointed 2007-07-23 · resigned 2007-07-23
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | Santander Santander UK PLC as Security Trustee | A registered charge | — | 21/08/2019 | 22/02/2021 | |
| satisfied | Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC | A registered charge | — | 25/11/2014 | 22/02/2021 |
Recent filings (63 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2026-02-10
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-04-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-04-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-08-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-07-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-07-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-07-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-07-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-07-25
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-07-25