COULAVIE LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive
SC619087 · ltd · incorporated 2019-01-24
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 7.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Solicitors
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 7.1y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
23 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees01400

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
2
filings
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-29
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  2. 2025-06-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-07-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-11-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  5. 2023-11-10
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  6. 2023-11-10
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    Charge satisfied #1
  7. 2023-10-31
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    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  8. 2023-09-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-07-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-09-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-07-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-04-09
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  13. 2019-04-11
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  14. 2019-04-05
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  15. 2019-03-29
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    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  16. 2019-03-29
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  17. 2019-03-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  18. 2019-01-24
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    Company incorporated
    As COULAVIE LIMITED
  19. 2019-01-24
    ➕
    WOTHERSPOON, James Robert Edwards appointed
    director
  20. 2019-01-24
    ➕
    WOTHERSPOON, Jonathan Lawrence Edwards appointed
    director
  21. 2019-01-24
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    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

86/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 7 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr James Robert Edwards Wotherspoon
Individual · British · DOB 03/1955 · age 71
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting24/01/2019
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Jonathan Lawrence Edwards Wotherspoonceased 10/08/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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
Incorporated2019-01-24
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC69102 — Solicitors

Registered office

Coulavie
Torbreck
Inverness
IV2 6DJ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-06
Last: 2026-01-23

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

WOTHERSPOON, James Robert Edwards→
director · ~71y · appointed 2019-01-24
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Active
WOTHERSPOON, Jonathan Lawrence Edwards→
director · ~69y · appointed 2019-01-24
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—28/03/201910/11/2023

Recent filings (23 total)

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-06-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-23
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-11-15
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-11-10
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2023-10-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-01