R & L LAW LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC214142 · ltd · incorporated 2000-12-27
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 25.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). 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 25.2y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 25.2 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: medium (76/100)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
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 2 with DOB)
76
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
67 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
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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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 500 | 400 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
3 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 (28 events)Click to expand
- 2025-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-20📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-08-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2017-02-13📄appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP03
- 2017-02-12📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2017-02-12📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2016-12-31➕STEVENSON, Andrew appointedsecretary
- 2016-12-01➖JAMIESON'S BOOK-KEEPING & ACCOUNTANCY LTD resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2016-09-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-01-28📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2012-12-21➖DAVIE, John Robert resignedsecretary
- 2012-12-21➕JAMIESON'S BOOK-KEEPING & ACCOUNTANCY LTD appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2008-07-01➕DAVIE, John Robert appointedsecretary
- 2008-07-01➖MESSRS JAMIESON DAVIE resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2001-02-07🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 2000-12-27🏢Company incorporatedAs R & L LAW LIMITED
- 2000-12-27➕LAW, Lyndsey Geddes appointeddirector
- 2000-12-27➕LAW, Roderick Donaldson appointeddirector
- 2000-12-27➕MESSRS JAMIESON DAVIE appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2000-12-27➕OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2000-12-27➖OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. 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 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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
cleanNo 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 · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Roderick Donaldson Law Individual · British · DOB 02/1961 · age 65 | 75–100% | — | 75-100% shares · firm interest | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
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.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2000-12-27
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC45111 — Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles
Registered office
The Tassie The Tassie
Muasdale
Tarbert
Argyll
PA29 6XD
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-10
Last: 2025-12-27
Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)
Active
LAW, Lyndsey Geddes→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2000-12-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
LAW, Roderick Donaldson→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2000-12-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
DAVIE, John Robert→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2008-07-01 · resigned 2012-12-21
JAMIESON'S BOOK-KEEPING & ACCOUNTANCY LTD→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2012-12-21 · resigned 2016-12-01
MESSRS JAMIESON DAVIE→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2000-12-27 · resigned 2008-07-01
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-12-27 · resigned 2000-12-27
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Floating charge | 1 property | 07/02/2001 | — |
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Recent filings (67 total)
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-06-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-07