{"name":"CHAMBERLAIN MCBAIN LIMITED","company_number":"SC200870","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1999-10-20","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Cbc House, 24 Canning Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8EG","postcode":"EH3 8EG","sic_codes":[{"code":69109,"description":"Activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified"},{"code":82911,"description":"Activities of collection agencies"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"LAURELZERO LIMITED","changed_on":"1999-11-29"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Micro","year_end":"31 October","last_made_up_to":"2025-10-31","next_due":"2027-07-31"},"employees":{"count":5,"accounts_date":"2025-10-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-10-31","net_assets":3162,"average_employees":5},{"financial_date":"2024-10-31","net_assets":11736,"average_employees":5},{"financial_date":"2023-10-31","net_assets":7275},{"financial_date":"2022-10-31"},{"financial_date":"2016-10-31","net_assets":1700,"cash":6460}],"officers":{"current":1,"resigned":3,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_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.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/chamberlain-mcbain","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/chamberlain-mcbain/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/chamberlain-mcbain/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC200870","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/chamberlain-mcbain/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/chamberlain-mcbain/control","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/chamberlain-mcbain/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/chamberlain-mcbain"}