---
title: "BUK WEST AFRICA LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/66513d56-e03c-59ec-83bb-c3d86017e8cf
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/66513d56-e03c-59ec-83bb-c3d86017e8cf
identifier: oo:GB-COH-08931720
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# BUK WEST AFRICA LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** GB  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-08931720`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/66513d56-e03c-59ec-83bb-c3d86017e8cf  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/66513d56-e03c-59ec-83bb-c3d86017e8cf  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **BUK HOLDCO LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/9b39d929-4a12-511c-bded-e517308e1d80
- **Buk Holdco Limited** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f1b27446-7daf-4bc2-a5d2-aa7f7106f274

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

1. **BUK HOLDCO LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *BUK WEST AFRICA LIMITED*
1. **Buk Holdco Limited** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *BUK WEST AFRICA LIMITED*
2. **Barrick Gold Corporation** — beneficial owner 100% → *BUK HOLDCO LIMITED*
2. **Barrick Gold Corporation** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *BUK HOLDCO LIMITED*
2. **Acacia Mining Plc** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *BUK HOLDCO LIMITED*

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `08931720`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 2014-03-10
- **Registered office:** Gateley Plc, 1 Paternoster Square, London, EC4M 7DX, England
- **SIC:** 99999

### Officers

- BADYLAK, Maciej — director · Australian · appointed 2021-02-25
- FREEMAN, Matthew John — director · Canadian · appointed 2022-03-29
- BARRICK GOLD (SECRETARIES) LIMITED — corporate secretary · appointed 2019-09-17 · resigned 2021-02-25
- DI TRAPANI, Fausto — director · Italian · appointed 2021-02-25 · resigned 2022-03-21
- FERGUSON, James Richard — director · British · appointed 2020-11-30 · resigned 2021-02-25
- GELETA, Peter — director · British · appointed 2018-01-01 · resigned 2019-09-17
- GORDON, Bradley Austin — director · Australian · appointed 2014-03-21 · resigned 2017-12-31
- RICH, Laura Helen — director · British · appointed 2014-03-10 · resigned 2019-09-17
- SHUTTLEWORTH, Graham Patrick — director · British,South African · appointed 2019-09-17 · resigned 2021-02-25
- WELSH, Martin Adam — director · British · appointed 2019-09-17 · resigned 2021-02-25
- WHITE, Katrina — director · Australian · appointed 2014-03-10 · resigned 2016-08-31
- WRAY, Andrew Michael — director · British · appointed 2016-09-01 · resigned 2017-12-31

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Buk Holdco Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f1b27446-7daf-4bc2-a5d2-aa7f7106f274) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — ceased 2021-02-25

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08931720

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **BUK WEST AFRICA LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/66513d56-e03c-59ec-83bb-c3d86017e8cf · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/66513d56-e03c-59ec-83bb-c3d86017e8cf._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._