AMADEUS CAPITAL PARTNERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03392685 · ltd · incorporated 1997-06-26
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 24.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£4.30M
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of venture and development capital companies
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.8y

50/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
18 officers (4 active, 18 linked, 11 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
16 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
106 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 · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £4,303,362

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1.4m
Net Worth
£4.3m
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-31
Cash£1.36M
Net assets£4.30M

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (51 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-07-21
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  5. 2023-07-09
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    TRAVERSONE, Andrea resigned
    director
  6. 2022-12-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-07-15
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  9. 2021-07-07
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    DICKINSON, Carl Irving appointed
    director
  10. 2021-07-07
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2021-07-05
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    VAN SOMEREN, Alex Rupert resigned
    director
  12. 2021-01-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-07-05
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  17. 2017-04-26
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    address · AD01
  18. 2017-01-17
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  19. 2017-01-01
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    ANTON, Richard Philip resigned
    director
  20. 2016-06-28
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  21. 2016-06-22
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    VAN SOMEREN, Alex Rupert appointed
    director
  22. 2016-02-29
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    DICKINSON, Carl Irving appointed
    secretary
  23. 2015-12-31
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    BREWARD, Alastair David Walker resigned
    secretary
  24. 2015-12-31
    ➖
    BREWARD, Alastair David Walker resigned
    director
  25. 2011-11-30
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    TRAVERSONE, Andrea appointed
    director
  26. 2008-07-07
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    MERRITT, Roy Nathan resigned
    director
  27. 2006-05-23
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    BREWARD, Alastair David Walker appointed
    secretary
  28. 2006-05-23
    ➖
    WYNN, Peter Barrington resigned
    secretary
  29. 2006-05-23
    ➕
    BREWARD, Alastair David Walker appointed
    director
  30. 2006-05-23
    ➖
    WYNN, Peter Barrington resigned
    director
  31. 2005-06-20
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    MERRITT, Roy Nathan appointed
    director
  32. 2004-04-30
    ➖
    MEHTA, Hitesh Kumar resigned
    director
  33. 2003-02-13
    ➖
    DUFFY, John Lawrence resigned
    secretary
  34. 2003-02-13
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    WYNN, Peter Barrington appointed
    secretary
  35. 2003-02-13
    ➖
    DUFFY, John Lawrence resigned
    director
  36. 2001-10-19
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited
  37. 2001-07-20
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Heron St James's Street Limited
  38. 2001-05-15
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    DUFFY, John Lawrence appointed
    secretary
  39. 2001-05-15
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    WYNN, Peter Barrington resigned
    secretary
  40. 2001-05-15
    ➕
    DUFFY, John Lawrence appointed
    director
  41. 2000-01-24
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    ANTON, Richard Philip appointed
    director
  42. 1999-01-25
    ➕
    MEHTA, Hitesh Kumar appointed
    director
  43. 1998-07-02
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    WYNN, Peter Barrington appointed
    secretary
  44. 1997-07-02
    ➕
    GLOVER, Anne Margaret appointed
    director
  45. 1997-07-02
    ➕
    HAUSER, Hermann Maria appointed
    director
  46. 1997-07-02
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    WYNN, Peter Barrington appointed
    director
  47. 1997-06-26
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    Company incorporated
    As AMADEUS CAPITAL PARTNERS LIMITED
  48. 1997-06-26
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  49. 1997-06-26
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    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  50. 1997-06-26
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    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
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Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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.)

Group structure

Amadeus Partners Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Amadeus Partners Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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AMADEUS CAPITAL PARTNERS LIMITED
This company · 03392685

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Amadeus Partners Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
Incorporated1997-06-26
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64303 — Activities of venture and development capital companies

Registered office

Suite 1, 2nd Floor 2 Quayside
Cambridge
CB5 8AB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-10
Last: 2025-06-26

Officers (4 active · 14 resigned)

DICKINSON, Carl Irving→
secretary · appointed 2016-02-29
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Active
DICKINSON, Carl Irving→
director · ~47y · appointed 2021-07-07
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Active
GLOVER, Anne Margaret→
director · ~72y · appointed 1997-07-02
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Active
HAUSER, Hermann Maria→
director · ~78y · appointed 1997-07-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BREWARD, Alastair David Walker→
secretary · appointed 2006-05-23 · resigned 2015-12-31
Resigned
DUFFY, John Lawrence→
secretary · appointed 2001-05-15 · resigned 2003-02-13
Resigned
WYNN, Peter Barrington→
secretary · appointed 2003-02-13 · resigned 2006-05-23
Resigned
WYNN, Peter Barrington→
secretary · appointed 1998-07-02 · resigned 2001-05-15
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-06-26 · resigned 1997-06-26
Resigned
ANTON, Richard Philip→
director · ~62y · appointed 2000-01-24 · resigned 2017-01-01
Resigned
BREWARD, Alastair David Walker→
director · ~66y · appointed 2006-05-23 · resigned 2015-12-31
Resigned
DUFFY, John Lawrence→
director · ~69y · appointed 2001-05-15 · resigned 2003-02-13
Resigned
MEHTA, Hitesh Kumar→
director · ~74y · appointed 1999-01-25 · resigned 2004-04-30
Resigned
MERRITT, Roy Nathan→
director · ~62y · appointed 2005-06-20 · resigned 2008-07-07
Resigned
TRAVERSONE, Andrea→
director · ~56y · appointed 2011-11-30 · resigned 2023-07-09
Resigned
VAN SOMEREN, Alex Rupert→
director · ~61y · appointed 2016-06-22 · resigned 2021-07-05
Resigned
WYNN, Peter Barrington→
director · ~80y · appointed 1997-07-02 · resigned 2006-05-23
Resigned
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-06-26 · resigned 1997-06-26
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Universities Superannuation Scheme
Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited
Rent deposit deed1 property19/10/2001—
outstanding
Heron St James's Street
Heron St James's Street Limited
Rent deposit deed1 property20/07/2001—
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Recent filings (106 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-03
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-07-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-23
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-07-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-07
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-07-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-03