SCOTLEE HOLDINGS LIMITED

💤Zombieactive

SC277074 · ltd · incorporated 2004-12-06

Investment thesis

Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.

Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.

Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Sector: Financial & insurance

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 21.1y

45/100

under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

· Oldest live charge is 21.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

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

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

73 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	1	100

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

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand

2026-01-05
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-01-05
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-01-05
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-23
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-08-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-19
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-08-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-08-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-08-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-08-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2016-11-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2007-04-30
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LEESON, James Wallace resigned
director
2005-05-17
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2005-04-22
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Charge satisfied #1
2005-03-31
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2005-03-07
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LEESON, Evelyn appointed
secretary
2005-03-07
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LEESON, James Flannigan appointed
director
2005-03-07
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QUILL SERVE LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2005-03-07
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LEESON, James Wallace appointed
director
2005-03-07
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QUILL FORM LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2004-12-06
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Company incorporated
As SCOTLEE HOLDINGS LIMITED
2004-12-06
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QUILL SERVE LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2004-12-06
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QUILL FORM LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100

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

+Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100

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 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr James Flannigan Leeson Individual · British · DOB 08/1958 · age 68	25–50%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016
Mrs Evelyn Leeson Individual · British · DOB 06/1956 · age 70	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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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8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2004-12-06

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

Scotlee Transport Services Portland Place

Heatherhouse Industrial Estate

Irvine

KA12 8LW

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 · 3 resigned)

LEESON, Evelyn→

secretary · appointed 2005-03-07

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

LEESON, James Flannigan→

director · ~68y · appointed 2005-03-07

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

QUILL SERVE LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-12-06 · resigned 2005-03-07

Resigned

LEESON, James Wallace→

director · ~99y · appointed 2005-03-07 · resigned 2007-04-30

Resigned

QUILL FORM LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-12-06 · resigned 2005-03-07

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	17/05/2005	—
	satisfied	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	31/03/2005	22/04/2005

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Recent filings (73 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-01-12

change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date

officers · CH03

2026-01-05

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC01

2026-01-05

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2026-01-05

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-12-23