ANDERSON STRATHERN TRUSTEE COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC074397 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1981-04-06

Investment thesis

Looks cheap but ownership + security both unclear — probable value trap.

Why interesting: Headline metrics may be attractive.

Why risky: No PSC visibility combined with multiple live charges; transacting likely slow and expensive.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 17.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Mar 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-trading company

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Dormant / non-trading with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 65/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 17.9y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 17.9 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 (74/100)

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

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

49 officers (14 active, 49 linked, 45 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

217 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

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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	2025-03-31	2024-03-31

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 4 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (97 events)Click to expand

2025-12-11
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TRIPP, Euan Charles Morgan resigned
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2025-12-11
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2025-12-03
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LAUGHLAND, Russell Stuart appointed
director
2025-12-03
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MURRAY, Laura Elizabeth appointed
director
2025-11-03
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2024-12-20
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2024-01-05
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PEUTHERER, John Douglas Willison resigned
director
2024-01-05
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2023-12-30
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Teviot Wf Limited
2023-09-01
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PRINGLE, Caroline Alexandra appointed
director
2023-01-27
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RICHARDSON, Jemma Rachel appointed
director
2021-12-17
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HENDERSON, Colin Bruce resigned
director
2020-07-06
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MCGUIGAN, Siobhan Clare appointed
director
2019-09-01
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JOHNSTONE, Alasdair Scott appointed
director
2019-08-31
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MILLER, Catriona Margaret Binnie resigned
director
2019-07-01
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TRIPP, Euan Charles Morgan appointed
director
2019-03-17
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KERR, John Neilson resigned
director
2018-09-01
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HUNTER, David William resigned
director
2017-11-30
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CAMPBELL, David Haddow appointed
director
2017-11-30
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CAMPBELL, Martin Stuart appointed
director
2017-11-23
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JONES, Janice appointed
director
2017-11-23
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YOUNG, Colin Forrest Graham appointed
director
2017-09-01
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GUNN, Alexander David resigned
director
2017-09-01
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WILKIN, Christopher George Andrew resigned
director
2016-11-14
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STEWART, Alec Dougal resigned
director
2016-08-31
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BIGGAR, John Morrison Hay resigned
director
2016-05-03
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PENNEL, Lynda Elizabeth resigned
director
2016-05-03
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PEUTHERER, John Douglas Willison appointed
director
2016-05-03
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SHARP, Robert Alan resigned
director
2016-04-12
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JALICY, Sara Marziyeh appointed
director
2016-03-01
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MILLER, Catriona Margaret Binnie appointed
director
2014-10-24
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BIGGAR, John Morrison Hay appointed
director

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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-13 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1981-04-06

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

C/O Anderson Strathern Llp

58 Morrison Street

Edinburgh

EH3 8BP

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-13

Last: 2025-11-29