DORAN CONSULTING LIMITED

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NI055181 · ltd · incorporated 2005-05-13

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 20.7y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 20.7y

75/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 20.7 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.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

11 officers (3 active, 11 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

97 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £3,560,421

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Profit before tax	£3.56M	£3.31M
Average employees	136	14000

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 incorporation
• 1 resolution

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 incorporation
• 1 resolution

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (40 events)Click to expand

2026-04-14
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2026-04-14
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-04-14
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-04-01
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MARTIN, Lynda Anne resigned
director
2025-12-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-07
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-04-10
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LONG, Ian Robert resigned
director
2024-04-10
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-12-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-26
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-04-21
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-04-21
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-04-21
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-04-14
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FORTE, Marco resigned
secretary
2023-04-12
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FORTE, Marco resigned
director
2023-03-10
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-03-09
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2022-12-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-10-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-12-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-12-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2017-04-10
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DAVIS, Campbell, Dr appointed
director
2017-04-10
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KEOWN, Paul Geoffrey appointed
director
2017-04-10
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NELSON, Michael William appointed
director
2017-04-10
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FORTE, Marco appointed
director
2017-04-10
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MARTIN, Lynda Anne appointed
director
2017-04-07
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WALKER, David Peter resigned
director
2012-04-01
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FORTE, Marco appointed
secretary
2012-03-31
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MAXWELL, Colin Thomas resigned
secretary
2012-03-31
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MAXWELL, Colin Thomas resigned
director
2011-03-31
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LOCKWOOD, Stephen Elliott resigned
director
2005-08-30
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Northern Bank Limited
2005-08-30
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Northern Bank Limited
2005-05-13
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Company incorporated
As DORAN CONSULTING LIMITED
2005-05-13
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MAXWELL, Colin Thomas appointed
secretary
2005-05-13
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LOCKWOOD, Stephen Elliott appointed
director
2005-05-13
➕
LONG, Ian Robert appointed
director
2005-05-13
➕
MAXWELL, Colin Thomas appointed
director
2005-05-13
➕
WALKER, David Peter appointed
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

+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

Dcl Holdings (N.I.) Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Dcl Holdings (N.I.) Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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DORAN CONSULTING LIMITED

This company · NI055181

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Dcl Holdings (N.I.) Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	12/04/2023

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Ian Robert Longceased 12/04/2023· 50-75% shares

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2005-05-13

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC71122 — Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities

Registered office

83-91 Adelaide Street

Belfast

BT2 8FE

Northern Ireland

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 · 8 resigned)

DAVIS, Campbell, Dr→

director · ~65y · appointed 2017-04-10

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

KEOWN, Paul Geoffrey→

director · ~52y · appointed 2017-04-10

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Active

NELSON, Michael William→

director · ~56y · appointed 2017-04-10

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

FORTE, Marco→

secretary · appointed 2012-04-01 · resigned 2023-04-14

Resigned

MAXWELL, Colin Thomas→

secretary · appointed 2005-05-13 · resigned 2012-03-31

Resigned

FORTE, Marco→

director · ~54y · appointed 2017-04-10 · resigned 2023-04-12

Resigned

LOCKWOOD, Stephen Elliott→

director · ~74y · appointed 2005-05-13 · resigned 2011-03-31

Resigned

LONG, Ian Robert→

director · ~61y · appointed 2005-05-13 · resigned 2024-04-10

Resigned

MARTIN, Lynda Anne→

director · ~64y · appointed 2017-04-10 · resigned 2026-04-01

Resigned

MAXWELL, Colin Thomas→

director · ~72y · appointed 2005-05-13 · resigned 2012-03-31

Resigned

WALKER, David Peter→

director · ~67y · appointed 2005-05-13 · resigned 2017-04-07

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Northern Bank Northern Bank Limited	Mortgage or charge	1 property	30/08/2005	—
	outstanding	Northern Bank Northern Bank Limited	Mortgage or charge	1 property	30/08/2005	—

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Recent filings (97 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-05-13

memorandum-articles

incorporation · MA

2026-04-14

resolution

resolution · RESOLUTIONS

2026-04-14

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2026-04-14

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2025-12-01

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-06-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2024-12-16

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2024-10-07

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-06-18

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2024-04-10

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-12-18

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-06-20

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC07

2023-04-26

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC02

2023-04-21

termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM02

2023-04-21