Company & Bankruptcy Checks


But how will you know if you are dealing with a reputable person or company?

Company information - the Freedom of Information Act (F.O.I.A.) allows us to access recorded information held by public sector organisations. In business, checking the public company record may be a shrewd and sensible approach. This is to establish who you are working with and ascertain a company’s worth. It can be quite easy to be informed or told that “they are a company director", but how will you know if you are dealing with a reputable person or company?

This facility is also useful for Landlords, Creditors and Employers who need to check if someone Insolvent. We can access information about a company including: -

We search individual company profiles and browse information recorded with Companies House establishing company timelines; if a Director is disqualified or check to see if a company is being wound up (liquidated).

We can also check if a company is in ‘provisional liquidation’. This means a court has frozen the assets of a company in advance of a hearing to decide if it should be liquidated.

Searching for Bankruptcy and Insolvency - in the event we are instructed to issue legal proceedings we would conduct a bankruptcy search as standard to avoid unnecessary costs if a person or company is insolvent or in an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) or Debt Relief Order (DRO).

We check the Gazette Official Public Record for individual or company insolvencies, searching for corporate insolvency notices, browse personal insolvency notices and who may be managing the bankruptcy or liquidation. We conduct a search for details of people who have gone bankrupt, including:

If you are owed money by a partnership, the individual members also are responsible for the debt. In this case we can check the insolvency of each individual of the partnership and search the register using the partnership’s trading name. We can search Companies House to confirm if an LLP is insolvent and if so, who the Official Receiver / Insolvency Practitioners is dealing with the case.

If you are a creditor, we can claim the money you are owed by completing a proof of debt form on your behalf to submit to the Official Receivers or Insolvency Practitioners, who will add your claim to the list of creditors. If full repayment of your claim is not possible, creditors receive a dividend in proportion to the value of each claim unless there are no funds available for distribution.

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