LITTLEDANE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC225303 · ltd · incorporated 2001-11-14
Investment thesis
Looks cheap but ownership + security both unclear — probable value trap.
Why interesting: Headline metrics may be attractive.
Why risky: No PSC visibility combined with multiple live charges; transacting likely slow and expensive.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 24.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
£7.85M
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyright works
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 24.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.1 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 (75/100)

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
3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed
95
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
89 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 £7,846,794
Net assets shrinking
Down £43,164 YoY
Cash YoY
+460%
Year on year

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£300k
↑ 460% YoY
Net Worth
£7.8m
~ YoY
Current Assets
£612k
↓ 3.9% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£1.6m£3.2m£4.7m£6.3m£7.9mDec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£11.63M£11.63M£11.65M
Current assets£611.8k£636.8k£673.3k
Cash£300.3k£53.7k£117.0k
Debtors£311.4k£583.1k£556.3k
Net assets£7.85M£7.89M£7.91M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-27
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  2. 2025-11-20
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  3. 2025-09-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-04-02
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    BLACH, Jens resigned
    director
  5. 2024-09-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-06-19
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  7. 2022-09-27
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  8. 2021-10-15
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  9. 2021-10-14
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    WISTOFT, Claus resigned
    secretary
  10. 2021-09-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-05-11
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-05-08
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  13. 2018-08-23
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  14. 2018-08-23
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  15. 2018-08-23
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    officers · CH01
  16. 2018-08-23
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    officers · CH01
  17. 2018-08-23
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    officers · CH01
  18. 2018-05-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2013-01-21
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    WISTOFT, Claus resigned
    director
  20. 2002-06-05
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  21. 2002-04-17
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
  22. 2002-03-06
    ➕
    BLACH, Jorgen appointed
    director
  23. 2002-03-06
    ➕
    JENSEN, Erik Dueholm appointed
    director
  24. 2002-03-06
    ➕
    RASMUSSEN, Henrik Elmlund appointed
    director
  25. 2002-03-06
    ➕
    WISTOFT, Claus appointed
    secretary
  26. 2002-03-06
    ➖
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  27. 2002-03-06
    ➕
    BLACH, Jens appointed
    director
  28. 2002-03-06
    ➕
    WISTOFT, Claus appointed
    director
  29. 2002-03-06
    ➖
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  30. 2001-11-14
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    Company incorporated
    As LITTLEDANE LIMITED
  31. 2001-11-14
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 2001-11-14
    ➕
    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 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

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
Incorporated2001-11-14
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC77400 — Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyright works

Registered office

Academy House
Shedden Park Road
Kelso
Roxburghshire
TD5 7AL
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-22
Last: 2025-11-08

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

BLACH, Jorgen→
director · ~70y · appointed 2002-03-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JENSEN, Erik Dueholm→
director · ~66y · appointed 2002-03-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RASMUSSEN, Henrik Elmlund→
director · ~69y · appointed 2002-03-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WISTOFT, Claus→
secretary · appointed 2002-03-06 · resigned 2021-10-14
Resigned
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-11-14 · resigned 2002-03-06
Resigned
BLACH, Jens→
director · ~66y · appointed 2002-03-06 · resigned 2025-04-02
Resigned
WISTOFT, Claus→
director · ~67y · appointed 2002-03-06 · resigned 2013-01-21
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2001-11-14 · resigned 2002-03-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Standard security1 property05/06/2002—
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Floating charge1 property17/04/2002—
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Recent filings (89 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-29
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-11-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-10
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-10-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-11