ESP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC206929 · ltd · incorporated 2000-05-08

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 24.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 65/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 4 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

5 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.4y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 24.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 38/100 — 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

Lenders & charges

5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)

Directors & officers

64 officers (9 active, 64 linked, 52 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

40 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

230 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (146 events)Click to expand

2026-01-28
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-08-08
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accounts · AA
2025-02-26
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officers · AP01
2025-02-26
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-02-20
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change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2025-01-31
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MCLURE, Cameron appointed
director
2025-01-31
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SOLLEY, Christopher Thomas resigned
director
2024-09-05
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accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AAMD
2024-08-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-05-23
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-05-23
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-05-22
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DAKPOE, Prince Yao appointed
director
2024-05-22
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CAVILL, John Ivor resigned
director
2024-02-27
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-02-26
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MCGHEE, Steven John appointed
director
2024-01-02
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change-corporate-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH04
2023-12-12
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-12-12
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-09-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-06-08
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-05-31
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CHRISTIE, Rory William resigned
director
2023-03-03
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-03-03
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-02-22
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DIX, Carl Harvey appointed
director
2023-02-22
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WRINN, John resigned
director
2022-09-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2021-11-04
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-11-04
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-11-03
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GILMOUR, David Fulton resigned
director
2021-11-03
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WRINN, John appointed
director
2021-10-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2019-05-01
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GORDON, John Stephen appointed
director
2019-05-01
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CHRISTIE, Rory William appointed
director
2019-04-30
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WOODBURN, Neil Andrew resigned
director
2019-04-01
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MCLELLAN, Kenneth Andrew appointed
director
2019-04-01
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ANDERSON, Colin John resigned
director
2017-04-01
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ANDERSON, Colin John appointed
director
2017-04-01
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MCLELLAN, Kenneth Andrew resigned
director
2016-12-12
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC (As Security Trustee)
2016-10-31
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MCINNES, Sarah Catherine resigned
director
2016-10-31
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WOODBURN, Neil Andrew appointed
director
2016-02-25
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CAVILL, John Ivor appointed
director
2016-02-25
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BIIF CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
2015-07-27
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LINNEY, Joseph Mark resigned
director
2015-07-27
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MCINNES, Sarah Catherine appointed
director
2015-01-16
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WATSON, Martin John Malone resigned
director
2013-02-28
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INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGERS LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2013-02-28
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LEWIS, Maria resigned
secretary
2012-11-01
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MCLELLAN, Kenneth Andrew appointed
director
2012-09-27
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LEWIS, Maria appointed
secretary

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Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-8 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

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 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 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

1 low

5 live charges

low

Heavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Semperian Ppp Investment Partners No.2 Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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Aberdeen Infrastructure (No.3) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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ESP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

This company · SC206929

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Semperian Ppp Investment Partners No.2 Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Aberdeen Infrastructure (No.3) Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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.

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8 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

Incorporated2000-05-08

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

C/O Infrastructure Managers Limited 2nd Floor Drum Suite, Saltire Court

20 Castle Terrace

Edinburgh

EH1 2EN

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-21

Last: 2025-05-07