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DWF Company Secretarial Services Limited
Solicitors
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Previous officers 15
- Sir Nigel Graham Knowles 2023-2025 View profile
- Christopher James Stefani 2023-2025 View profile
- Darren Paul Drabble 2023-2023 View profile
- Jason Alexander Ford 2018-2023 View profile
- Paul Robert Rimmer 2013-2018 View profile
- Francis James Shephard 2011-2023 View profile
- Katharine Margaret Mellor 2008-2013 View profile
- Paula Jane Smith 2008-2010 View profile
- Laurence Patrick Pritchard 2008-2011 View profile
- Paul Gerard Attwood 2008-2018 View profile
- Eric Andrew Needham 2008-2011 View profile
- David Nicholas Clay 2008-2013 View profile
- Susan Kim Parker 2008-2010 View profile
- Davies Wallis Foyster Limited 2001-2018 View profile
- DWF Services Limited 2001-2017 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Solicitors
- Incorporated
- 09/03/2001
- Registered office
- Manchester
- Previous names
- DWF Secretarial Services Limited (until 11/07/2018)
Ownership
Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- Davies Wallis Foyster Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
Group
- DWF Company Secretarial Services Limited
is controlled by Davies Wallis Foyster Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register - Davies Wallis Foyster Limited
is controlled by DWF LLP
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register - DWF LLP
is controlled by DWF LAW LLP
Evidence
active right to appoint and remove members (LLP) · notified 2019-03-11 · source: Companies House PSC register - DWF LAW LLP
is controlled by Andrew Richard Leaitherland
Evidence
ceased 25-50% voting (LLP), 25-50% surplus assets (LLP) · notified 2018-07-12, ceased 2019-03-09 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Andrew Richard Leaitherland.
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- DWF Middle East Group LLP
- William Stobart IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Julian Richmond-Watson IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- William Tinkler IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Davies Wallis Foyster Limited
- Paul Henty IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- DWF Services Limited
- Terence O'Neill IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- IAN Burgess IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Paul Gumbley IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Anthony Medina IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Edward Jefferson IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Martin O'Hara IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Resolution LAW Limited
- Davies Wallis
- Anthony Endfield IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Cecil Tarbet IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- DWF Secretarial Services (Scotland) Limited
- SC140057
- Richard Cochrane IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- 06910769
- Forestry Publications Limited
- DWF Connected Services Holdings Limited
- Neil Brown IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- DWF Nominees Limited
- DWF (Nominees) 2013 Limited
- Newco 4736 Limited
- Geoffrey Hadfield IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- F and N Properties Limited
- Stephen Kelso IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Arch LAW Limited
- F and N TWO
- Eugene Mctaggart IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- DWF LLP
- Trevor Turkington IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- DWF Solicitors Limited
- M J Kiely IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Douglas Mcgeorge IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Geoffrey Bray IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Bailford Trustees Limited
- Antoni Fields IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- Robin Gray IIP Settlement 2003 Limited
- F and N ONE Limited
Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
2 directors on the board
- Matthew Ian Doughty Director · appointed 2023
- Bart Frits Borms Director · appointed 2025
First-time vs portfolio directors
Portfolio (2)
- Matthew Ian Doughty Director · appointed 2023
- Bart Frits Borms Director · appointed 2025
Left in the last 12 months
- Christopher James Stefani Director · appointed 2023 · resigned 2025
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 04176234
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Accounts next due
- 31/01/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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