CANTLAYHILLS ENERGY LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive
SC554492 · ltd · incorporated 2017-01-12
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.
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
77/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35110
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
13 connected companies via shared directors
84
Filing history
23 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
77/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees200200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-30
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-29
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  3. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-07-08
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-05-21
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-07-11
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-06-05
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2018-05-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-05-15
    📄
    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  12. 2017-06-06
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  13. 2017-03-29
    ➕
    FAIRLIE, David Michael appointed
    director
  14. 2017-03-29
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  15. 2017-01-12
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As CANTLAYHILLS ENERGY LIMITED
  16. 2017-01-12
    ➕
    LYLE, Andrew William appointed
    director
  17. 2017-01-12
    📄
    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

78/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 9 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

56/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
Balmirmer Farms Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control
significant stake
🏛️
Locogen Yieldco Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 50-75% shares · board control
majority
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CANTLAYHILLS ENERGY LIMITED
This company · SC554492

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Locogen Yieldco Ltd
Corporate entity
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control12/01/2017
Balmirmer Farms Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control12/01/2017

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2017-01-12
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

C/O Locogen Ltd
4 West Silvermills Lane
Edinburgh
EH3 5BD
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-25
Last: 2026-01-11

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

FAIRLIE, David Michael→
director · ~67y · appointed 2017-03-29
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Active
LYLE, Andrew William→
director · ~46y · appointed 2017-01-12
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Active

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Recent filings (23 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-30
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-01-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-07-11