HORACE UNDERWRITING LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-05 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HORACE UNDERWRITING LIMITED 2023-05-24 → present
- HORACE AGENCY LIMITED 2022-04-22 → 2023-05-24
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 continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Annual Report. The Company's business activities, together with the factors likely to affect its future development, its financial position, financial risk management objectives, and its credit and liquidity risk are described in this Strategic Report. The Company has assurances of continued support from its parent company and the Company's forecasts and projections show it has adequate resources to continue trading for at least 12 months from the date of authorisation of these financial statements.”
Significant events
- “On June 4, 2024, Ambac Financial Group, Inc (AFG) entered into a share purchase agreement, by and among AFG, Cirrata V LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of AFG, to acquire approximately 60% of the entire issued share capital of the Company's parent entity, Beat Capital Partners Limited. The remaining 40% shareholders of Beat Capital Partners Limited are held by Bain Capital Credit LP and individual management shareholders. 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
7 active · 2 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHABE, Tamara | Secretary | 2025-08-01 | — | — |
| MARSDEN, Heather Elizabeth, Mrs. | Secretary | 2022-04-22 | — | — |
| NAHER, Shamsun | Secretary | 2023-02-28 | — | — |
| CAVANAGH, John Paul | Director | 2023-02-28 | Oct 1958 | British |
| CHARLTON, Christopher Peter | Director | 2023-06-20 | Jul 1968 | British |
| MARSDEN, Heather Elizabeth | Director | 2022-04-22 | Oct 1974 | American |
| RAYNER, Paul Michael | Director | 2022-04-22 | Jul 1978 | British |
Show 2 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, Katie Victoria, Ms. | Secretary | 2022-04-22 | 2025-08-04 |
| RUGHANI, Shradha, Mrs. | Secretary | 2022-04-22 | 2023-01-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Octave Specialty Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-04-22 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 30 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-07-11 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2023-05-24 CERTNM Certificate change of name company
- 2023-05-24 NM06 Change of name request comments
- 2023-05-24 CONNOT Change of name notice
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-12 | RP01AP01 | officers | Replacement filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2025-11-25 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 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 | |
| 2025-08-05 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-06-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-31 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-04-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-10-13 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-09-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-11 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-07-10 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2023-06-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-05-24 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2023-05-24 | NM06 | change-of-name | Change of name request comments | |
| 2023-05-24 | CONNOT | change-of-name | Change of name notice |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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