ACCIDENT SOLICITORS DIRECT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

06730675 · ltd · incorporated 2008-10-22

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 16.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to May 2025

Net worth

£1.12M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Solicitors

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 16.8y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 16.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

9 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

79 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £1,116,979

Net assets shrinking

Down £183,224 YoY

Cash YoY

+43%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£594k

↑ 43% YoY

Net Worth

£1.1m

↓ 14% YoY

Current Assets

£917k

↓ 6.9% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-05-31	2024-05-31
Total assets	£1.12M	£1.30M
Current assets	£917.3k	£984.8k
Cash	£594.0k	£416.6k
Debtors	£313.3k	£558.3k
Net assets	£1.12M	£1.30M

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

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

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2026-02-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-16
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-18
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2023-02-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-30
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-04-07
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second-filing-capital-allotment-shares
capital · RP04SH01
2022-04-04
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2022-03-24
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capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2022-03-21
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capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2022-03-07
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-11-30
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2021-10-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-07
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-04-07
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-04-07
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2021-02-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-10-07
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2018-06-01
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CHAPPELL, Christopher Andrew appointed
director
2018-06-01
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CLARK, Ralph Alexander appointed
director
2009-08-03
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2008-10-22
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Company incorporated
As ACCIDENT SOLICITORS DIRECT LIMITED
2008-10-22
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MEGGITT, Richard John appointed
secretary
2008-10-22
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LONG, Richard Graham appointed
director
2008-10-22
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MEGGITT, Richard John appointed
director
2008-10-22
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RODDISON, John appointed
director
2008-10-22
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RODDISON, John resigned
director

Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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.)

Group structure

Asd Law Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Asd Law Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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ACCIDENT SOLICITORS DIRECT LIMITED

This company · 06730675

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Asd Law Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	07/04/2020

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Richard Graham Longceased 07/04/2020· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mr Richard John Meggittceased 07/04/2020· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2008-10-22

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC69102 — Solicitors

Registered office

275 Ecclesall Road

Sheffield

Yorkshire

S11 8NX

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-02-28

Last made up to: 2025-05-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-20

Last: 2026-04-06