Reduction of Capital
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- Notice category:
- Companies & Financial Regulation
- Notice type:
- Reduction of Capital
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- Edition:
- The Edinburgh Gazette
- Notice ID:
- 4959028
- Notice code:
- 2610
In the Matter of CRANEWARE PLC
Company Number: SC196331
NOTICE is hereby given that, on 2 September 2025, a Petition for confirmation of (1) the cancellation of the entire amount standing to the credit of Craneware plc’s share premium account and (2) the cancellation of the shares arising on the capitalisation of Craneware plc’s merger reserve was presented to the Court of Session, Edinburgh by Craneware plc a company incorporated under the Companies Acts with registered number SC196331 and having its registered office at Tanfield House, 1 Tanfield, Edinburgh, EH3 5DA; in which Petition Lord Lake, by Interlocutor dated 4 September 2025, allows all parties claiming an interest to lodge Answers thereto within 21 days after intimation and advertisement, which Notice is hereby given: “4 September 2025, Lord Lake. The Lord Ordinary, on the motion of the petitioner, 1. appoints intimation of this petition by Craneware plc a company incorporated under the Companies Acts with registered number SC196331 and its registered office at Tanfield House, 1 Tanfield, Edinburgh, EH3 5DA ("the Company") for confirmation of (i) the cancellation of the share premium account of the Company; and (ii) the cancellation of the shares arising on capitalisation of the Company’s merger reserve (together the "Reduction"), which were resolved upon by special resolutions of the Company passed on 20 August 2025, to be made on the walls in common form and to be advertised once in each of The Edinburgh Gazette and The Financial Times (UK edition) newspapers; (ii) to allow all parties claiming an interest to lodge answers, if so advised, within 21 days of said intimation and advertisement; (iii) appoints Mr Adrian Edward Robert Bell, to be the reporter for the process; remits the process to him to report on the facts and circumstances set out in the petition and on the regularity of the proceedings; and, (iv) directs, in hoc statu, in terms of section 645(3) of the Companies Act 2006, that section 646 of that Act shall not apply to any class or classes of the creditors of the Company.”
Steven Blane, Solicitor, Pinsent Masons LLP, 58 Morrison Street, Edinburgh EH3 8BP, Agent for the Petitioner