AMA SURGICAL SPECIALISTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07210327 · ltd · incorporated 2010-03-31
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: General medical practice activities
Sector: Human health & social work
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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, 1 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
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
43 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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees2200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-30
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  2. 2025-10-29
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  3. 2025-10-20
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    address · AD01
  4. 2025-01-31
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  5. 2023-07-23
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  6. 2023-01-15
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  7. 2022-01-30
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  8. 2021-04-19
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  9. 2020-01-31
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  10. 2019-02-18
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  11. 2018-01-31
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  12. 2017-01-16
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  13. 2016-04-13
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  14. 2016-01-29
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  15. 2015-04-15
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  16. 2010-03-31
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    Company incorporated
    As AMA SURGICAL SPECIALISTS LIMITED
  17. 2010-03-31
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    ABULAFI, Al Mutaz, Dr appointed
    director
  18. 2010-03-31
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    ABULAFI, Toni Colleen appointed
    director

Owner dependency

96/100
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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 16 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. 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 16 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Dr Al Mutaz Abulafi
Individual · British · DOB 03/1959 · age 67
——sig. influencesignificant influence01/03/2017

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
Incorporated2010-03-31
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC86210 — General medical practice activities

Registered office

C/O Sal 94 West Parade
West Parade
Lincoln
LN1 1JZ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-13
Last: 2026-03-30

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

ABULAFI, Al Mutaz, Dr→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-03-31
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ABULAFI, Toni Colleen→
director · ~62y · appointed 2010-03-31
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Recent filings (43 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-29
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-10-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-01