Site assembly, an access strip, a ransom parcel, the freehold beneath a lease, a neighbouring title: registered to a company dissolved years ago. Your solicitor has found it, the lender has paused, and nobody can tell you who has the power to sign. We can.
On dissolution the company's land passed to the Crown as bona vacantia, or in Scotland to the King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer. The Crown holds it passively. It will not manage it, insure it, or act quickly. If the Crown has disclaimed it, the title may have been extinguished altogether, which changes the route but not the outcome.
You have no standing to restore someone else's company. That is the trap most transactions fall into: the people who could fix it are former directors and shareholders who have no idea the problem exists, and the Crown office moves at the Crown office's pace.
There are three routes and the assessment identifies which applies. Restoration: we trace the former members, establish standing, and manage the restoration so the revived company can convey or grant what you need. Crown release or purchase: where restoration is barred or impractical, we negotiate directly with the Bona Vacantia Division or the KLTR for the release or sale of the interest to you. Vesting and title routes where the interest has been extinguished, through partner solicitors under our case management.
Our forensic and tracing function is the difference. The Crown will tell you what it holds. Finding the one former shareholder in Perth who can sign is the part nobody else does.
Assessment, £295, credited on instruction. Written answer within 48 hours including the route, the parties who must be found, and a scoped price.
Engagements are scoped and priced on the blockage, not on hours, and confirmed in writing before we begin. Where partner solicitors are required their fees sit inside the quoted figure.
Sometimes, and it can be the fastest route. The Crown sells at market value and expects the buyer to carry its costs. The assessment tells you whether restoration or purchase is cheaper and faster for your case.
Restoration is generally barred; the Crown routes remain. Tell us the dissolution date in the form.
Yes. Most of our blocked-transaction clients are the party who needs the title, not the party who held it.
Depends entirely on route and on how quickly the former members can be found. We give a realistic timescale in the assessment, not a hopeful one.
Send the company number, or the company name and what has happened. You will receive a written assessment within two working days: what has happened, whether it can be fixed, the route, the price and the timescale. The assessment fee of £295 is credited against your fee if you instruct us.