BRACE UNDERWRITING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-28 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-08-14
Watchouts
None on the register
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- BRACE UNDERWRITING LIMITED 2019-10-21 → present
- BRACE AGENCY LIMITED 2019-09-20 → 2019-10-21
- CRAFT SPECIALTY AGENCY LIMITED 2019-08-15 → 2019-09-20
Accounts
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Company has adequate resources to continue trading for at least 12 months from the date of authorisation of these financial statements and the Directors intend for it to do so. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Annual Report.”
Group structure
- BRACE UNDERWRITING LIMITED · parent
- Brace UK & Europe Underwriting Limited 50%
- Brace Underwriting Corporation 100%
- Brace Insurance Services LLC 77.5%
Significant events
- “On June 4, 2024, Ambac Financial Group, Inc (AFG) entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire approximately 60% of the entire issued share capital of the Company's parent entity, Beat Capital Partners Limited. The acquisition closed with an effective date of 31 July 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHABE, Tamara | Secretary | 2025-08-01 | — | — |
| MARSDEN, Heather Elizabeth | Secretary | 2020-11-25 | — | — |
| NAHER, Shamsun | Secretary | 2023-02-22 | — | — |
| CAVANAGH, John Paul | Director | 2019-08-15 | Oct 1958 | British |
| COOMBE, Jason Louvet Turner | Director | 2026-02-03 | Jul 1986 | British |
| JOHNSTON, Hayley | Director | 2026-02-03 | Aug 1971 | British |
| KULLER, Albert Ulf Fredrik | Director | 2026-02-03 | Aug 1983 | Swedish |
| MARSDEN, Heather Elizabeth | Director | 2023-02-22 | Oct 1974 | American |
| RAYNER, Paul Michael | Director | 2019-08-15 | Jul 1978 | British |
| SAMBROOK, Thomas Huw | Director | 2026-02-03 | Sep 1988 | British |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, Katie Victoria | Secretary | 2019-08-15 | 2025-08-04 |
| RUGHANI, Shradha | Secretary | 2019-08-15 | 2023-01-26 |
| HOLBERRY, Adam Mark, Mr. | Director | 2020-02-10 | 2025-11-06 |
| RAWLINS, Charles, Mr. | Director | 2020-08-14 | 2022-02-10 |
| RUGHANI, Shradha | Director | 2019-08-15 | 2023-01-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Octave Specialty Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2019-08-15 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 75 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-03-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2026-03-14 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-05-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-05-16 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-03-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-03-14 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2026-02-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-01-21 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2026-01-21 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-11-25 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-14 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-08-12 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-08-08 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-04 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-05-22 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-05-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-16 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 20
- Capital events
- 4
- Officers appointed
- 5
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
Latest filed period vs the prior one