D J LAING GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC398954 · ltd · incorporated 2011-05-05

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 14.8y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to May 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of head offices

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 14.8y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 14.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

37 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-05-31	2024-05-31

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-01-28
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officers · TM01
2025-12-31
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MCMILLAN, Roderick John resigned
director
2025-12-22
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accounts · AA
2025-02-25
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2024-02-23
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2023-02-24
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accounts · AA
2022-02-28
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2021-03-02
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accounts · AA
2020-02-24
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2019-02-11
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accounts · AA
2018-01-30
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2017-12-29
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2017-02-17
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accounts · AA
2016-04-22
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officers · AP01
2016-04-22
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officers · AP01
2016-04-22
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officers · AP01
2016-03-23
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HART, Vaughan Michael appointed
director
2016-03-23
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NICOLL, Karen Anne appointed
director
2016-03-23
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MCMILLAN, Roderick John appointed
director
2011-07-12
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
2011-05-05
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Company incorporated
As D J LAING GROUP LIMITED
2011-05-05
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LAING, Dorothy Strachan Watson appointed
secretary
2011-05-05
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LAING, David John appointed
director
2011-05-05
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LAING, Dorothy Strachan Watson appointed
director

Owner dependency

88/100

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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "LAING" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr David John Laing Individual · British · DOB 11/1947 · age 79	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Ms Dorothy Strachan Watson Laing Individual · British · DOB 01/1950 · age 76	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.

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2011-05-05

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

Laing House

Panmure Industrial Estate

Carnoustie

DD7 7NP

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-02-28

Last made up to: 2025-05-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-04

Last: 2026-01-21

Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)

LAING, Dorothy Strachan Watson→

secretary · appointed 2011-05-05

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Active

HART, Vaughan Michael→

director · ~55y · appointed 2016-03-23

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Active

LAING, David John→

director · ~79y · appointed 2011-05-05

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Active

LAING, Dorothy Strachan Watson→

director · ~76y · appointed 2011-05-05

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Active

NICOLL, Karen Anne→

director · ~57y · appointed 2016-03-23

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Active

MCMILLAN, Roderick John→

director · ~73y · appointed 2016-03-23 · resigned 2025-12-31

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC	Floating charge	1 property	12/07/2011	—

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Recent filings (37 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-01-28

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officers · TM01

2026-01-28