CRUACHAN TRUSTEES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC038703 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1963-04-23

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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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Solicitors

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

29 officers (13 active, 29 linked, 27 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

142 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-09-30	2023-09-30

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (58 events)Click to expand

2026-04-01
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DONALDSON, Emma Elizabeth appointed
director
2026-04-01
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officers · AP01
2025-10-01
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STEWART, Robert Crombie resigned
director
2025-10-01
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-08-11
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-08-08
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DAVIES, Paula appointed
director
2025-04-10
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officers · AP01
2025-04-01
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MCNAMARA, Peter David appointed
director
2025-02-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-08-20
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-08-15
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RUNCIMAN, Pamela appointed
director
2024-08-15
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MAXWELL, Colette resigned
director
2024-08-15
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-03-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-03-07
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-03-01
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DONNELLY, Craig Thomas appointed
director
2023-11-23
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CUTHBERT, April Anne resigned
director
2023-11-23
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-11-21
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-11-20
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MAXWELL, Colette appointed
director
2023-07-03
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-06-30
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SHELDON, Sarah-Jane Mary resigned
director
2023-06-14
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-06-13
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CUTHBERT, April Anne appointed
director
2023-04-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-06-28
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-05-30
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BROWN, Ross Alexander appointed
director
2022-04-06
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-03-30
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SHELDON, Sarah-Jane Mary appointed
director
2022-03-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-02-08
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-02-08
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-01-28
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-10-01
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CONDIE, Karen Tracey appointed
director
2021-10-01
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ISMAIL, Amir Mohamed appointed
director
2021-10-01
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JOHNSTON, Carole Margaret appointed
director
2021-10-01
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RIDDIOUGH, Ralph Leigh appointed
director
2021-10-01
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THOMPSON, Kevin appointed
director
2021-10-01
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CAMPBELL RIDDELL BREEZE PATERSON SOLICITORS resigned
corporate-secretary
2021-10-01
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HEALY, Lawrence Thomas John resigned
director
2021-10-01
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MUIR, John Harris resigned
director
2013-03-31
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MCGILL, James Maxwell resigned
director
2013-01-01
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REID, Hamish Lochhead resigned
director
2013-01-01
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STEWART, Robert Crombie resigned
director
2012-09-12
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STEWART, Robert Crombie appointed
director
2009-07-08
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HAY, Kenneth John Clunie appointed
director
2009-07-08
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HEALY, Lawrence Thomas John appointed
director
2009-07-08
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MCGILLIVRAY, Donald Norman resigned
director
2005-04-18
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MCKERACHER, Fiona Dorothy resigned
director
2003-01-24
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MCKERACHER, Fiona Dorothy appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 58 events

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

-13 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
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

Holmes Mackillop Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Holmes Mackillop Limited

Corporate parent · board control

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CRUACHAN TRUSTEES LIMITED

This company · SC038703

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
Holmes Mackillop Limited Corporate entity	—	75–100%	board control75-100% voting · board control	01/10/2021

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Campbell Riddell Breeze Patersonceased 01/10/2021· significant influence · trust interest

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1963-04-23

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC69102 — Solicitors

Registered office

229 Fenwick Road

Giffnock

Glasgow

G46 6JQ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-06-30

Last made up to: 2024-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-20

Last: 2026-02-06