MURRAY DONALD DRUMMOND COOK TRUSTEES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC328033 · ltd · incorporated 2007-07-19

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Solicitors

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

44 officers (25 active, 44 linked, 42 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

15 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

112 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

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	2025-07-31	2024-07-31

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (86 events)Click to expand

2026-03-20
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2025-12-05
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2025-11-28
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ROUGHEAD, Alan resigned
director
2025-09-01
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DUNN, Susan appointed
director
2025-09-01
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FRASER, Hannah appointed
director
2025-09-01
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GRIMMOND, Joanne Elizabeth appointed
director
2025-09-01
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HAINEY, Lisa May appointed
director
2025-09-01
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MCGILL, Katherine Muriel appointed
director
2025-09-01
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MITCHELL, Sarah appointed
director
2025-09-01
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MOIR, Kyle Frank Strachan appointed
director
2025-09-01
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ROUGHEAD, Alan appointed
director
2025-09-01
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2025-07-22
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ETHERINGTON, David Murray resigned
director
2025-07-22
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2025-02-19
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2025-01-31
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ANDERSON, Rachel appointed
director
2025-01-31
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HORNE, Emma Ashley appointed
director
2024-11-07
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2024-10-31
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DICKSON, Graeme Ross Campbell appointed
director
2024-10-31
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GARDINER, Christopher Peter John appointed
director
2024-10-31
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MACKAY, Iain Finlay Magnus appointed
director
2024-10-31
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MACKIE, Stuart Irvine appointed
director
2024-10-31
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PRATT, Stephanie Elizabeth appointed
director
2024-06-18
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2024-05-31
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MCKEOWN, Anne Janette resigned
director
2024-05-01
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2024-04-30
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CHRISTINE, Lorna Margaret resigned
director
2024-01-26
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accounts · AA
2023-06-01
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CALDERWOOD, Elizabeth Lilian resigned
director
2022-05-31
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ALLAN, Margaret Jean resigned
director
2019-04-25
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COUTTS, Morna Jane appointed
director
2019-04-25
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DUFF, Susan Margaret appointed
director
2019-04-25
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HAMILTON, Ronald Grant appointed
director
2019-04-25
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MACKAY, Kenneth Richard appointed
director
2019-04-25
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MATHIESON, David appointed
director
2019-04-25
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RENFREW, Bruce Norman appointed
director
2019-04-25
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ALLAN, Margaret Jean 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

-24 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 med ·

2 director resignations in last 12 months

medium

Multiple recent departures can indicate governance disagreement, succession event, or preparation for sale/stress.

Evidence: ETHERINGTON, David Murray resigned 2025-07-22; ROUGHEAD, Alan resigned 2025-11-28

Group structure

Thorntons Law Llp holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Thorntons Law Llp

Corporate parent

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MURRAY DONALD DRUMMOND COOK TRUSTEES LIMITED

This company · SC328033

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Thorntons Law Llp Corporate entity	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2007-07-19

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC69102 — Solicitors

Registered office

Kinburn Castle

St Andrews

Fife

KY16 9DR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-24

Last: 2025-10-10