---
title: "CITYGATE NOMINEES LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/77ec8cba-781d-5584-84fd-8aed8613fd3f
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/77ec8cba-781d-5584-84fd-8aed8613fd3f
identifier: oo:GB-COH-02189028
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# CITYGATE NOMINEES LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-02189028`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/77ec8cba-781d-5584-84fd-8aed8613fd3f  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/77ec8cba-781d-5584-84fd-8aed8613fd3f  

## Cross-source identity

The same real-world entity, resolved across sources:

- **CITYGATE NOMINEES LIMITED** — GLEIF · `lei:549300VYNOOT01BFQP37` — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5a96c1c4-1eff-502b-92ed-a73d284f6d01

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **Smith Bros Limited** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/52004977-a933-43ac-a38d-d2e689294425
- **Merrill Lynch International** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c23d77f8-d8a1-488d-9939-6c748d18ee60

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

A **2-step** ownership/control chain to the ultimate beneficial owner is resolved for this entity. The full cited chain unlocks with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `02189028`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1987-11-05
- **Registered office:** 2 King Edward Street, London, EC1A 1HQ
- **SIC:** 64999

### Officers

- MERRILL LYNCH CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED — corporate secretary · appointed 2003-11-28
- MERRIMAN, John — director · British · appointed 2021-09-01
- STEPHENSON-POPE, Mark David — director · British · appointed 2016-11-01
- CLIFTON, Roger Cheston — secretary · British · resigned 1993-01-15
- GARWOOD, John Raymond — secretary · British · appointed 1993-01-15 · resigned 1995-03-23
- GIRLING, Anne Christine — secretary · British · appointed 2001-06-29 · resigned 2001-11-28
- RICHARDS, Marilyn Ivy — secretary · British · appointed 1995-03-23 · resigned 2001-08-16
- SEARLE, Debra Anne — secretary · British · appointed 2001-11-28 · resigned 2003-12-01
- ANDREWS, Richard John — director · British · appointed 1998-10-28 · resigned 2000-11-06
- DOBINSON, Arthur Leslie — director · British · resigned 1998-10-21
- GARWOOD, John Raymond — director · British · resigned 1996-03-12
- GIRLING, Anne Christine — director · British · appointed 2001-01-26 · resigned 2001-11-30
- GOODERUM, Stephen Paul — director · American · appointed 2000-11-10 · resigned 2001-08-16
- HAYDEN, Martin Frederick — director · British · appointed 1998-10-28 · resigned 2003-01-10
- HEATH, Michael Robert — director · British · resigned 1995-04-25
- JONES, Richard Ian — director · British · appointed 2011-03-24 · resigned 2016-10-19
- LANGHAM, Carol Ann — director · Canadian · appointed 1995-11-10 · resigned 2000-08-14
- LEE, Jonathan Howard Redvers — director · British · appointed 2019-09-07 · resigned 2021-09-01
- LEWIS, Bernadette — director · British · appointed 2001-11-30 · resigned 2005-03-01
- LEWIS, David Alasdair — director · British · appointed 2001-03-06 · resigned 2002-02-28

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Merrill Lynch International](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c23d77f8-d8a1-488d-9939-6c748d18ee60) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — since 2016-12-13
- [Smith Bros Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/52004977-a933-43ac-a38d-d2e689294425) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — ceased 2016-12-13

## Provenance

- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02189028
- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02189028

## Get the full, resolved dossier (agent-callable)

The above is the free teaser. The resolved **multi-hop UBO chain**, ownership **%**, full **financial history**, itemised **assets** and the hop-by-hop **exposure path** are the paid depth — callable as tools from your agent:

```bash
npx -y @whiteintel/mcp-server   # then: get_dossier · trace_ownership_path · check_offshore_exposure
```

Or unlock a one-off cited dossier for **CITYGATE NOMINEES LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/77ec8cba-781d-5584-84fd-8aed8613fd3f · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **CITYGATE NOMINEES LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/77ec8cba-781d-5584-84fd-8aed8613fd3f · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/77ec8cba-781d-5584-84fd-8aed8613fd3f._

_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"._