THE LAW GROUP SCOTLAND LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC366593 · ltd · incorporated 2009-10-09
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 3.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
—
Upgrade to see
Turnover
—
year to Oct 2025
Net worth
£18.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
🔔
Follow this company (free)
Email alerts on filings, charges, director changes, gazette notices. No account needed.

Unsubscribe any time from any email. GDPR-respectful.

🔒Generate AI memo →🔒Outreach pack →🔒Corporate story →📑 Reports →Sign in to watch
What this business does
Primary activity: Combined office administrative service activities
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. 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).

🏦

Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 3.8y

75/100
ready

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

  • · Charge age ~3.8 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
48 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 £18,131
Net assets shrinking
Down £17,832 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£18k
↓ 50% YoY
Current Assets
£24k
↓ 58% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£12k£23k£35k£46k£58kOct 2024Oct 2025

Hover to see exact values · click legend to toggle series

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Total assets£18.1k£40.0k
Current assets£24.2k£57.8k
Net assets£18.1k£36.0k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-06
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-17
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-06
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-12-02
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-08-23
    📄
    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  6. 2022-08-05
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Inn Business (Scotland) Limited
  7. 2021-12-06
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-12-18
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-02-20
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-01-18
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-10-01
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  12. 2018-03-20
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-11-25
    📄
    second-filing-capital-allotment-shares
    capital · RP04SH01
  14. 2016-11-25
    📄
    capital-name-of-class-of-shares
    capital · SH08
  15. 2016-11-25
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  16. 2016-11-22
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2009-10-10
    ➕
    IRELAND, Jacqueline appointed
    director
  18. 2009-10-10
    ➕
    THOMSON, Andrew Michael Macgregor appointed
    director
  19. 2009-10-09
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As THE LAW GROUP SCOTLAND LIMITED
  20. 2009-10-09
    ➕
    COSEC LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  21. 2009-10-09
    ➖
    COSEC LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2009-10-09
    ➕
    MCMEEKIN, James Stuart appointed
    director
  23. 2009-10-09
    ➖
    MCMEEKIN, James Stuart resigned
    director
  24. 2009-10-09
    ➕
    COSEC LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  25. 2009-10-09
    ➖
    COSEC LIMITED resigned
    corporate-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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

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.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Jacqueline Neville Ireland
Individual · British · DOB 05/1980 · age 46
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/10/2016
Mr Andrew Michael Macgregor Thomson
Individual · British · DOB 10/1965 · age 61
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/10/2016

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Similar companies

Active · Trade services · FK postcode area
CompanyEst. valueTurnoverNet worthStaffAgeOppDirector
DOLLAR ANTIQUES LTD→
SC742384 · est 2022
£32.8k
£24.6k–£41.0k
£383.8k—5003y8960y
CASTLE VIEW VENTURES LIMITED→
SC334617 · est 2007 · no financials extracted
————18y8365y
CENTRAL RECYCLING LIMITED→
SC172120 · est 1997
——£3.88M—29y8360y
POCKET ROCKET CREATIVE LTD.→
SC314831 · est 2007
——£192.2k—19y8359y
ACF CLEANING LIMITED→
SC227534 · est 2002
——£699.5k—24y8259y
ALBION VEHICLE WASH ENGINEERS (CENTRAL) LTD.→
SC319156 · est 2007
———219y8261y
AQUAKLENZ LTD.→
SC257531 · est 2003
——£3.6k—22y8274y
C E CONTRACTS LIMITED→
SC385639 · est 2010
——£1.45M—15y8261y
CARBROOK PROPERTIES LIMITED→
SC234755 · est 2002
——£79.1k—23y8270y
CLAIVER LIMITED→
SC293836 · est 2005
———40020y8267y
CLARENCE NURSERY LTD.→
SC184732 · est 1998
——£152.2k—28y8267y
DHS ENERGY LTD.→
SC223487 · est 2001
——£234.2k—24y8265y
Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions

6 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

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-10-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82110 — Combined office administrative service activities

Registered office

Springfield House
Laurelhill Business Park
Stirling
FK7 9JQ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-19
Last: 2026-01-05

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

IRELAND, Jacqueline→
director · ~46y · appointed 2009-10-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
THOMSON, Andrew Michael Macgregor→
director · ~61y · appointed 2009-10-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COSEC LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2009-10-09 · resigned 2009-10-09
Resigned
MCMEEKIN, James Stuart→
director · ~59y · appointed 2009-10-09 · resigned 2009-10-09
Resigned
COSEC LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2009-10-09 · resigned 2009-10-09
Resigned

Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.

Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Inn Business (Scotland)
Inn Business (Scotland) Limited
A registered charge1 property05/08/2022—
Click column headers to sort. Use filters above to narrow by status and lender.

Recent filings (48 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-02-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-02
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-08-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-02-20