Insolvency

Information on the Insolvency check.

Data resource: Companies House company insolvency API

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Highlights

Insolvency cases
Recency of events
Linked charges

Disclaimer

We summarise factual information and apply automated rules to help users navigate public registers more efficiently. Notes and key notes are informational only. They do not represent legal advice, financial advice, compliance findings, risk ratings, or confirmation of wrongdoing, sanctions status, ownership effect, or regulatory status. Highlight icons are intended to draw attention to available information and are not risk ratings.

Results may be incomplete, delayed, or affected by limitations in the underlying public data. Users should always verify information with the relevant official source before making legal, financial, lending, procurement, compliance, or business decisions.

Information

Status: status details recorded.

Open cases: number of cases with no recorded closure event.

Closed cases: number of cases with a recorded closure event, such as concluded winding up, dissolution, administration ending/discharge, moratorium ending, or voluntary arrangement ending.

Total cases: total number of cases recorded.

Insolvency Rules

We group results into four categories: Key notes, Notes, No notes, and Data unavailable.

Key notes highlight information related to the company's status.

Notes highlight contextual information about the company.

No notes means none of our rules were triggered and no notes were surfaced.

Data unavailable means expected data required for one or more rules was missing, unavailable, or could not be interpreted.

Highlight indicators are intended to draw attention to notes and improve scannability. They are not risk ratings or findings of non-compliance.

No notes
  • There are no open or closed insolvency cases recorded.
Key notes
Open case with an event 0–3 months ago.

There is an insolvency case with no event indicating closure with its most recent event dated within the last 3 months.

Open case with an event 3–6 months ago.

There is an insolvency case with no event indicating closure with its most recent event dated between 3 and 6 months ago.

Open case with an event 6–12 months ago.

There is an insolvency case with no event indicating closure with its most recent event dated between 6 and 12 months ago.

Open case with an event 12+ months ago.

There is an insolvency case with no event indicating closure with its most recent event dated more than 12 months ago.

Notes
Open case with no event date.

There is an insolvency case with no event indicating closure and no event date recorded.

Closed case with an event 0–3 months ago.

There is an insolvency case with an event indicating closure and its most recent event dated within the last 3 months.

Closed case with an event 3-6 months ago.

There is an insolvency case with an event indicating closure and its most recent event dated between 3 and 6 months ago.

Closed case with an event 6-12 months ago.

There is an insolvency case with an event indicating closure and its most recent event dated between 6 and 12 months ago.

Closed case with an event 12+ months ago.

There is an insolvency case with an event indicating closure and its most recent event dated more than 12 months ago.

Closed case with no event date.

There is an insolvency case with an event indicating closure and no event date recorded.

Data unavailable

There are no data unavailable notes for the insolvency check.

Service / transport errors

400 invalid company number format → check is not run.

404 resource not found → check is run; assumes no insolvency cases are recorded.

401/403 auth → check is not run.

429 rate limit → check is not run.

Timeout / 5xx → check is not run.

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