Law firms

Client due diligence that takes minutes, with the evidence trail built in.

Onboarding a corporate client means identifying every beneficial owner, evidencing how you got there, and repeating it for each entity in a group. Companies House gives you one company at a time and stops at the 25% threshold.

What you get

Identify every UBO and the nature of their control in one screen.
Walk a group upward to the ultimate parent and downward through every subsidiary.
See shareholders the PSC register doesn't show: every holder, by share class.
Surface charges, insolvency events and Gazette notices before the engagement letter.

How it goes

1
Search the client entity
Company name or number, or the individual you're dealing with.
2
Read the chain
UBOs sit above the target with the control band on every link; the target's holdings sit below.
3
Go past 25%
Open the shareholder register for every holder from the latest confirmation statement.
4
Check the risk layers
Registered charges, filed accounts, insolvency and Gazette history for every entity in the chain.

Case study

A share purchase agreement, three weeks from instruction

The situation

A mid-size firm is instructed on the sale of a family-owned manufacturing group. The seller has named four holding companies; due diligence needs to confirm there isn't a fifth.

What they did

The trainee opens the top holding company, reads the ownership chain up to the two individual UBOs and down through eleven subsidiaries in one sitting, and finds a twelfth company neither side had mentioned, held through a PSC relationship filed eighteen months earlier.

The result

The undisclosed subsidiary goes into the disclosure schedule before exchange, not after. What used to take a paralegal two days across Companies House one filing at a time took under an hour.

Try it now

Real groups, live from the register.

Grosvenor Estate Holdings opens in full, with no account. The others need a free account to show every name.

Grosvenor Estate Holdings

Seven individual UBOs, a corporate parent, fifteen holdings and a filed shareholder register.

Open the tree

John Bloor

An individual's full control chain: every company they're a PSC of, with sub-holdings.

Open the tree

Persimmon plc

A listed parent: what the PSC regime shows for a plc, and what it doesn't.

Open the tree

Professional layers for law firms

Beneath the register.

Charges, mortgages & lenders
Registered charges per company with lender, status and dates, plus Gazette charge notices.
Financials & accounts
Latest and historic filed accounts with derived metrics, without opening a PDF.
Insolvency, Gazette & probate
Insolvency cases and Gazette notices touching the companies and people involved. Probate records are coming soon, and available now on Bricksmart.ai.

Plans and pricing

Professional access for law firms

Every layer on every company and person, property records included, for £99 per user a month. Start with a free account; upgrade from it when you need to.

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