HIPER LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC181696 · ltd · incorporated 1997-12-22
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 19.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£167.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Information technology consultancy activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 19.6y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 19.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
9 officers (2 active, 9 linked, 5 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
80 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £167,933
Cash YoY
-7%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£110k
↓ 7.3% YoY
Net Worth
£168k
↑ 20% YoY
Current Assets
£259k
↑ 14% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£52k£103k£155k£207k£259kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£175.0k£162.0k
Current assets£258.6k£226.2k
Cash£110.1k£118.8k
Debtors£148.5k£105.4k
Net assets£167.9k£140.2k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (34 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-08
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  2. 2024-12-06
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  3. 2023-10-27
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  4. 2022-11-23
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  5. 2021-11-08
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  6. 2021-03-31
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  7. 2019-12-31
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  8. 2019-06-10
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  9. 2018-12-31
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  10. 2018-09-26
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    officers · TM02
  11. 2018-09-26
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    address · AD01
  12. 2018-09-08
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    mortgage · MR04
  13. 2018-09-08
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    Charge satisfied #1
  14. 2018-09-07
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    GILLANDERS, Derek David resigned
    secretary
  15. 2017-10-27
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  16. 2016-12-22
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  17. 2015-12-22
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  18. 2006-09-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
  19. 2002-10-01
    ➕
    TAYLOR, Stuart Derek appointed
    director
  20. 2002-10-01
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    GILLANDERS, Alison resigned
    secretary
  21. 2002-10-01
    ➕
    GILLANDERS, Derek David appointed
    secretary
  22. 2002-10-01
    ➖
    GILLANDERS, Alison resigned
    director
  23. 1998-12-14
    ➖
    GREEN, John Sutherland resigned
    secretary
  24. 1998-12-14
    ➖
    GREEN, John Sutherland resigned
    director
  25. 1998-12-13
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    GILLANDERS, Alison appointed
    secretary
  26. 1998-12-13
    ➕
    GILLANDERS, Alison appointed
    director
  27. 1997-12-22
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    Company incorporated
    As HIPER LIMITED
  28. 1997-12-22
    ➕
    GILLANDERS, Derek David appointed
    director
  29. 1997-12-22
    ➕
    GREEN, John Sutherland appointed
    secretary
  30. 1997-12-22
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  31. 1997-12-22
    ➖
    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  32. 1997-12-22
    ➕
    GREEN, John Sutherland appointed
    director
  33. 1997-12-22
    ➕
    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  34. 1997-12-22
    ➖
    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1997-12-22
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC62020 — Information technology consultancy activities

Registered office

8 Douglas Street
Hamilton
Lanarkshire
ML3 0BP
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-05
Last: 2025-12-22

Officers (2 active · 7 resigned)

GILLANDERS, Derek David→
director · ~61y · appointed 1997-12-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TAYLOR, Stuart Derek→
director · ~61y · appointed 2002-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GILLANDERS, Alison→
secretary · appointed 1998-12-13 · resigned 2002-10-01
Resigned
GILLANDERS, Derek David→
secretary · appointed 2002-10-01 · resigned 2018-09-07
Resigned
GREEN, John Sutherland→
secretary · appointed 1997-12-22 · resigned 1998-12-14
Resigned
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-12-22 · resigned 1997-12-22
Resigned
GILLANDERS, Alison→
director · ~59y · appointed 1998-12-13 · resigned 2002-10-01
Resigned
GREEN, John Sutherland→
director · ~65y · appointed 1997-12-22 · resigned 1998-12-14
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1997-12-22 · resigned 1997-12-22
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
NatWest Group
Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
Floating charge1 property08/09/200608/09/2018

Recent filings (80 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-31
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2019-06-10