LEA HALL ENERGY LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
09588779 · ltd · incorporated 2015-05-13
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 4.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35210
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 4.8y
75/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Charge age ~4.8 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
27 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
75
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 | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 0 | 0 |
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 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
- 2025-11-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-10-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-10-07📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2021-10-05🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
- 2021-09-21📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2021-09-17🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
- 2020-12-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-10-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-05-16📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2018-10-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-10-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-10-05📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2017-02-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2017-02-02📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2015-05-13🏢Company incorporatedAs LEA HALL ENERGY LIMITED
- 2015-05-13➕WILLIAMS, Hugh Francis appointeddirector
- 2015-05-13➕WILLIAMS, Ian William appointeddirector
- 2015-05-13➕WILLIAMS, Nicola Jane appointeddirector
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
65/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- 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
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Hugh Francis Williams Individual · British · DOB 04/1952 · age 74 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Nicola Jane Williams Individual · British · DOB 07/1955 · age 71 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Ian William Williams Individual · British · DOB 04/1986 · age 40 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2015-05-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC35210 — SIC 35210
Registered office
Lea Hall Farm
Lea Cross
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY5 8HY
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-27
Last: 2026-05-13
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
WILLIAMS, Hugh Francis→
Activedirector · ~74y · appointed 2015-05-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WILLIAMS, Ian William→
Activedirector · ~40y · appointed 2015-05-13
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WILLIAMS, Nicola Jane→
Activedirector · ~71y · appointed 2015-05-13
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Security Trustee Limited | A registered charge | 2 properties | 05/10/2021 | — | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Security Trustee Limited | A registered charge | — | 17/09/2021 | — |
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Recent filings (27 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-10-07
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-09-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-21