CHAMBERLAIN MCBAIN LIMITED
Company number SC200870 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Chamberlain McBain Limited is a long-established but very small Scottish legal services and debt recovery practice that has achieved gradual financial improvement over the past decade, moving from negative net assets to a modest £11,736 surplus. However, its capitalisation remains critically thin relative to sector norms, its single-director structure creates key-person risk, and its scale (5 employees) limits competitive positioning against both larger law firms and consolidated debt collection agencies. The anomalous 2023 balance sheet figures — which saw total assets temporarily spike to £248,581 before reverting — suggest episodic large transactions rather than sustainable growth, and the firm's continued micro-entity status confirms it operates at the lower end of the market with limited strategic flexibility.
Shareholders' funds
£3,162
Balance sheet as at 2025-10-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-10-20
- Employees
- 5 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Cbc House, 24 Canning Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8EG
- Postcode
- EH3 8EG
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-10-31
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 October
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-20
- Next due by
- 2026-11-03
Nature of business (SIC)
- 69109 Activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified
- 82911 Activities of collection agencies
Officers 1 current · 3 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z1897340 (Tier 1), registered since 2009.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| LAURELZERO LIMITED | 1999-11-29 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 4 KIRKHILL COURT, BIRCHWOOD, GOREBRIDGE, MIDLOTHIAN EH23 4TW | 2000-02-02 |
| 24 GREAT KING STREET, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN EH3 6QN | 1999-11-24 |
Among its peers
3rd largest employer
of 24 similar companies in EH, with 5 staff. 2nd oldest of its local peers.
Competitors Edinburgh
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4. RBIP LTD
This company ranks 24 among activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified in Edinburgh.
The class of 1999
43%
of the 64,736 companies incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.