DARAM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC152084 · ltd · incorporated 1994-07-22

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 27.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

£-5.1k

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 99999

Sector: Extraterritorial bodies

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). 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 27.4y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 27.4 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

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

17 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

72 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £5,060

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

-£5k

↓ 33% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	£-3.8k	£-3.8k
Net assets	£-5.1k	£-3.8k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-04-30
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2025-04-29
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2023-05-02
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2022-04-28
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2021-04-29
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2020-07-30
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2019-05-02
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2018-05-02
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2017-05-11
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2016-04-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2015-08-27
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annual-return · AR01
2015-05-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2014-08-28
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1999-01-12
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1994-08-02
➕
SOMERVILLE, Ronald Whitelaw appointed
secretary
1994-08-02
➕
MAGUIRE, David Kevin appointed
director
1994-08-02
➕
SOMERVILLE, Ronald Whitelaw appointed
director
1994-08-02
➖
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1994-08-02
➖
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
1994-07-22
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Company incorporated
As DARAM LIMITED
1994-07-22
➕
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1994-07-22
➕
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100

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 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

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 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 32 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Ronald Whitelaw Somerville Individual · British · DOB 10/1957 · age 69	25–50%	25–50%	sig. influence25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · significant influence	01/07/2016

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

Incorporated1994-07-22

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

36 Middlemuir Road

Lenzie

Glasgow

G66 4NA

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-11

Last: 2025-07-28

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

SOMERVILLE, Ronald Whitelaw→

secretary · appointed 1994-08-02

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Active

MAGUIRE, David Kevin→

director · ~68y · appointed 1994-08-02

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Active

SOMERVILLE, Ronald Whitelaw→

director · ~69y · appointed 1994-08-02

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1994-07-22 · resigned 1994-08-02

Resigned

JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1994-07-22 · resigned 1994-08-02

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	12/01/1999	—

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