REACTIVE DOWNHOLE TOOLS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC420928 · ltd · incorporated 2012-04-02
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 10.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 22190
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 72). 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 10.1y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 10.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · 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
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
53 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
75
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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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-09-30 | 2023-09-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 300 | — |
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
0
filings
Last 180 days
9
filings
- • 6 persons-with-significant-control
- • 3 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
- 2025-11-25📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-11-25📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-11-25📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-11-25📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-11-25📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-11-25📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-11-25📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-11-25📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-11-25📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-08-14📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2025-08-14📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2025-06-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2023-07-11📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-06-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-10-19📍change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD02
- 2021-10-19📍change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD02
- 2021-06-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-03-16🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Rubberatkins Limited
- 2012-04-12➕ATKINS, Nicholas appointedsecretary
- 2012-04-02🏢Company incorporatedAs REACTIVE DOWNHOLE TOOLS LIMITED
- 2012-04-02➕ATKINS, Nicholas appointeddirector
- 2012-04-02➕WEBSTER, Jill appointeddirector
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 14 years.
- 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
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hamish Atkins Individual · British · DOB 08/1996 · age 30 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 24/11/2025 |
Mr Fraser Atkins Individual · British · DOB 07/1991 · age 35 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 24/11/2025 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Ms Jill Websterceased 24/11/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
- Mr Nicholas Atkinsceased 24/11/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
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.
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🔒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
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
Incorporated2012-04-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC22190 — SIC 22190
Registered office
Rubberatkins Claymore Avenue
Bridge Of Don
Aberdeen
AB23 8GW
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-28
Last: 2025-05-14
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
Active
ATKINS, Nicholas→
Activedirector · ~72y · appointed 2012-04-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WEBSTER, Jill→
Activedirector · ~72y · appointed 2012-04-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
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
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Rubberatkins Rubberatkins Limited | A registered charge | — | 16/03/2016 | — |
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Recent filings (53 total)
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-11-25
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-11-25
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-11-25
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-11-25
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-11-25
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-25
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-11-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-11-25
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2025-08-14
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-08-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-06-28