One register, four very different reasons to watch it. Here is how each side of the deal table uses CompanyTrack: the signals they act on, and the work it replaces.
Sale processes leave fingerprints on the register months before an adviser is appointed: a new holdco slotted above the trading company, family shares consolidated into one name, a minority holder bought out. CompanyTrack watches every UK register for exactly these movements, so your origination list is built from behaviour, not from a stale directory.
A weekly view of companies in your sectors whose registers started moving this quarter: holdco insertions, share consolidations, partial sell-downs. Each one is a conversation worth having before the auction exists.
One click unravels a target group: the tree through every holdco layer, ultimate individual owners, related-party flags and charges, assembled into an ownership report you can put in front of a client for £149.
Track the companies you care about and hear about register changes, new charges and board moves when they file, not when the press notices.
Most tools stop at the 25% PSC threshold. CompanyTrack parses full shareholder registers from filings, so minority movements and quiet sell-downs are visible.
The best deals never reach a process. An owner in their sixties, no successor on the board, a register untouched for a decade, healthy accounts: the succession thesis is written in filings, if you can read registers at scale. CompanyTrack turns that into a screen you can work through.
Sole-owner and family-owned companies filtered by owner age, board shape and financials. Every company page carries a succession picture: who owns it, who runs it, and whether a successor is visible.
Partial sell-downs, buyouts of minority holders and ownership restructures are often the first public sign an owner is thinking about an exit.
Put your platform companies and add-on pipeline on a watchlist: register changes, charges and board moves arrive as they file.
The founders feed shows people who have sold a business before starting the next one: warm relationships for the next hold period start here.
By the time a round is on TechCrunch, everyone has seen it. The register is earlier: incorporations from exited founders, co-seller crews reuniting, SH01 allotments that never get a press release, and proven operators quietly taking personal stakes. That is the sourcing edge, filed daily at Companies House.
Every new incorporation matched against verified exits, ranked by the size of what they sold last time. Meet them before the deck exists.
Two or more people who sold a company together appearing on a new register together is the strongest early signal in venture. We flag every one, with the prior exit linked.
Most UK fundraises are never announced. The SH01 filing is the only public trace, and it appears in the fresh capital feed the day it is filed.
When an exited operator takes a minority stake in someone else's young company, that is a personal cheque from someone who has done it before. Track the angels the registers say are active, not the ones with the loudest feed.
Person profiles resolve a founder's directorships, stakes and exits from filings, so the "serial founder" claim takes thirty seconds to check.
For clients who own businesses, the register is where their financial life actually happens: new ventures, new co-investors, charges, and eventually a sale. CompanyTrack keeps the corporate footprint of your client book in view, so advice arrives at the moment it is useful.
Track clients' companies and directorships in one watchlist. When a register moves, a charge lands or a new company appears, you know the same week.
A business sale changes liquidity, tax position and estate planning overnight. Exit events are labelled and evidenced with the underlying filings, so the right conversation happens at the right time.
Directorships, holdings and disposal history assembled from Companies House filings: the clean way to evidence a client's corporate history for onboarding and KYC.
Founders rarely stop at one company. When a client incorporates their next venture or takes a stake in someone else's, it shows up on their profile.
Five signals from the register every Monday: judge the quality before you put it in your workflow. Subscribers get first access when CompanyTrack opens.