BURFORD CAPITAL OVERSEAS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-16 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£87K
USD 116,000
+251.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£71M
USD 94,338,000
+85.6% vs 2023
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£33M
USD 43,939,000
-23.7% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | |
| Operating profit | -£146,520 | -£665,321 | |
| Profit before tax | £43,074,680 | £32,846,677 | |
| Net profit | £42,748,748 | £32,533,453 | |
| Cash | £24,669 | £86,716 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £52,940,121 | £85,473,574 | |
| Net assets | £37,989,086 | £70,522,539 | |
| Equity | £37,989,086 | £70,522,539 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
Figures converted to GBP from USD at 0.748 per USD (Frankfurter spot rate) — hover any figure for the original. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
—
Not reported
-
Cash
+251.5%
£24,669 £86,716
-
Net assets
+85.6%
£37,989,086 £70,522,539
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-354.1%
-£146,520 -£665,321
-
Profit before tax
-23.7%
£43,074,680 £32,846,677
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | -0.3% | -0.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 87.6% | 81.6% | |
| Current ratio | 0.05x | 0.04x | |
| Interest cover | -0.18x | -0.81x |
Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors are satisfied that the Company has sufficient resources to enable it to continue as a going concern...”
Group structure
- BURFORD CAPITAL OVERSEAS LIMITED · parent
- Wilburn Investments LLC 100%
Significant events
- “The Company's principal activity is to act as a holding company for its subsidiary that holds capital provision asset investments. In addition, it has issued bonds to the value of $20,000,000 listed on The International Stock Exchange. The bonds will mature on 30 June 2060, and pay a fixed rate of 5.5% payable annually in arrears.”
- “The Company was incorporated on 3 October 2018 in the United Kingdom under Companies Act 2006 and registered in England and Wales.”
- “The Company received loans of $152,000,000 from Prospect Investments LLC to fund the initial acquisition of investment in subsidiary. Additional advances increased the loan to $237,000,000 at the start of the year in 2023 and the company received further loans of $99,000,000 in 2023 and $59,000,000 in 2024. The terms of the loans, since inception, are that they are payable on demand and are interest free.”
- “On 20th December 2024 the company received a loan of $1,500,000 from Burford Finance DAC at 5.73% to January 2026.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OAK FUND SERVICES(GUERNSEY) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2023-08-03 | — | — |
| ARNOTT, Craig Geoffrey | Director | 2018-10-03 | Dec 1966 | British |
| PASTER, Leslie | Director | 2020-10-01 | Jun 1965 | British |
| REDMAN, Michael Andrew | Director | 2021-12-22 | Dec 1978 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEIBFRIED, Philipp Ferdinand | Secretary | 2018-10-03 | 2023-08-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burford Capital Holdings (Uk) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2018-10-03 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 23 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-08-17 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-15 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2023-06-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-05-30 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2022-10-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-12-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-10-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-10-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2019-10-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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.