---
title: "FRENCH DUNCAN LLP — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/75e73e9e-9155-585b-ade7-e9d7039d5946
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/75e73e9e-9155-585b-ade7-e9d7039d5946
identifier: oo:GB-COH-SO300004
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# FRENCH DUNCAN LLP

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** GB  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-SO300004`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/75e73e9e-9155-585b-ade7-e9d7039d5946  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/75e73e9e-9155-585b-ade7-e9d7039d5946  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **PIONEER BIDCO LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/7dab47f2-1bca-50a7-a649-bba8c06c498f
- **PIONEER BIDCO LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/7dab47f2-1bca-50a7-a649-bba8c06c498f

### Holdings / subsidiaries

- **AAB VIRTUAL FINANCE LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/feecc00c-9747-5be5-abc9-d841271ab444

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

1. **PIONEER BIDCO LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *FRENCH DUNCAN LLP*
1. **PIONEER BIDCO LIMITED** — beneficial owner → *FRENCH DUNCAN LLP*
2. **PIONEER FINCO LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *PIONEER BIDCO LIMITED*
2. **PIONEER FINCO LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *PIONEER BIDCO LIMITED*
3. **PIONEER MIDCO LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *PIONEER FINCO LIMITED*
4. **PIONEER TOPCO LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *PIONEER MIDCO LIMITED*
5. **AUGUST EQUITY LLP** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *PIONEER TOPCO LIMITED*
5. **August Equity Partners V General Partner Llp** — beneficial owner → *PIONEER TOPCO LIMITED*
5. **AEP V INVESTMENT GENERAL PARTNER LLP** — beneficial owner → *PIONEER TOPCO LIMITED*
5. **SEEKER BIDCO LTD** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *PIONEER TOPCO LIMITED*
6. **Mr Philip Michael Rattle** — beneficial owner → *AUGUST EQUITY LLP*
6. **Mr Philip Michael Rattle** — beneficial owner → *AUGUST EQUITY LLP*
6. **Mr David Lonsdale** — beneficial owner → *AUGUST EQUITY LLP*
6. **SEEKER MIDCO LTD** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *SEEKER BIDCO LTD*
6. **AUGUST EQUITY PARTNERS V GP LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *AEP V INVESTMENT GENERAL PARTNER LLP*
6. **AUGUST EQUITY PARTNERS V GP LIMITED** — beneficial owner → *AEP V INVESTMENT GENERAL PARTNER LLP*

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `SO300004`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** llp
- **Incorporated:** 2001-05-01
- **Registered office:** Kingshill View, Kingswells Causeway, Prime Four Business Park, Kingswells, Aberdeen, AB15 8PU, Scotland

### Officers

- BATES, Thomas Robison Quaite — llp designated member · appointed 2022-11-01
- BEEVERS, John Robert — llp designated member · appointed 2025-03-31
- JONES, Alison — llp designated member · appointed 2025-03-31
- MACLENNAN, Nicola Elizabeth — llp designated member · appointed 2019-01-21
- SHAW, Andrew John — llp designated member · appointed 2025-03-31
- [AAB PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIMITED](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/2388d748-7a99-5ec6-b307-d3cff1b5de92) — corporate llp designated member · appointed 2023-04-21
- [PIONEER BIDCO LIMITED](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/7dab47f2-1bca-50a7-a649-bba8c06c498f) — corporate llp designated member · appointed 2023-04-21
- PIRRIE, James Stuart — llp member · appointed 2023-04-21
- ABERCROMBIE, Colin Robert — llp designated member · appointed 2014-06-13 · resigned 2018-11-30
- ANDERSON, John Stirling — llp designated member · appointed 2005-11-01 · resigned 2024-10-31
- BLACKBURN, Eileen — llp designated member · appointed 2005-03-01 · resigned 2023-04-21
- BOOTH, Kevin George — llp designated member · appointed 2008-05-01 · resigned 2013-01-31
- BURT, Hazel — llp designated member · appointed 2015-09-01 · resigned 2025-03-31
- CAIRNS, John Charles — llp designated member · appointed 2014-11-03 · resigned 2024-02-28
- CALLAN, Gregory — llp designated member · appointed 2012-12-01 · resigned 2023-04-21
- CLEARY, Charles — llp designated member · appointed 2005-11-01 · resigned 2023-01-31
- DOCHERTY, William Rutherford — llp designated member · appointed 2005-03-01 · resigned 2007-03-31
- FINNIE, Graeme Alexander Lumsden — llp designated member · appointed 2005-05-01 · resigned 2024-08-31
- FULFORD, Andrew Barrie — llp designated member · appointed 2005-03-01 · resigned 2008-04-30
- GALLOWAY, Paula Bernadette — llp designated member · appointed 2013-02-04 · resigned 2019-04-30

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Pioneer Bidco Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/7dab47f2-1bca-50a7-a649-bba8c06c498f) — 75–100% votes · corporate PSC · England — since 2023-04-21

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SO300004
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SO300004

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **FRENCH DUNCAN LLP**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/75e73e9e-9155-585b-ade7-e9d7039d5946 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/75e73e9e-9155-585b-ade7-e9d7039d5946._

_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"._