RUBISLAW (XX) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC331108 · ltd · incorporated 2007-09-18
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£-337.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
54 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £337,428
Cash YoY
-19%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£2k
↓ 19% YoY
Net Worth
-£337k
↓ 1.9% YoY
Current Assets
£2k
↓ 5.9% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
-£337k-£269k-£202k-£134k-£66k£2kSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£-337.4k£-331.2k
Current assets£2.2k£2.3k
Cash£1.5k£1.9k
Debtors£634£413
Net assets£-337.4k£-331.2k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-09-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-09-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-06-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-05-31
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    address · AD01
  11. 2018-05-31
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    officers · CH04
  12. 2017-09-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  13. 2017-09-18
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  14. 2017-09-18
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  15. 2017-01-13
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2011-06-09
    ➕
    INFINITY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  17. 2011-06-09
    ➖
    HALL MORRICE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  18. 2007-11-08
    ➕
    MACRAE, Stewart David appointed
    director
  19. 2007-11-08
    ➕
    SMITH, Kevin Alexander appointed
    director
  20. 2007-11-08
    ➖
    COWIE, Simon Henry Dyer resigned
    director
  21. 2007-09-18
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    Company incorporated
    As RUBISLAW (XX) LIMITED
  22. 2007-09-18
    ➕
    HALL MORRICE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2007-09-18
    ➕
    COWIE, Simon Henry Dyer appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Stewart David Macrae
Individual · British · DOB 12/1961 · age 65
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/09/2016
Mr Kevin Alexander Smith
Individual · British · DOB 01/1962 · age 64
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/09/2016

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
Incorporated2007-09-18
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC77390 — Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods n.e.c.

Registered office

5 Carden Place
Aberdeen
AB10 1UT
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-02
Last: 2025-09-18

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

INFINITY SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2011-06-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MACRAE, Stewart David→
director · ~65y · appointed 2007-11-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Kevin Alexander→
director · ~64y · appointed 2007-11-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HALL MORRICE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-09-18 · resigned 2011-06-09
Resigned
COWIE, Simon Henry Dyer→
director · ~53y · appointed 2007-09-18 · resigned 2007-11-08
Resigned

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Recent filings (54 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-06-27