Advanced Beauty Medical Clinics Limited: Section 216 notice as Cavendish Clinic faces liquidation
Advanced Beauty Medical Clinics Limited, trading as Cavendish Clinic, entered insolvent liquidation on 19 May 2026. Director Matthew James has filed a Section 216 notice. Full notice and Companies House record.
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Advanced Beauty Medical Clinics Limited, the Marylebone aesthetic medicine company that traded as Cavendish Clinic, entered insolvent liquidation on 19 May 2026. One of its directors has since filed a formal prohibited-name notice.
Matthew James, whose address is listed as 65 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8SP, filed the notice under Rule 22.4 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016. It signals his intention to continue carrying on the whole or substantially the whole of the business under the name Cavendish Clinic.
What Section 216 means
Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 prohibits a director of a company that has entered insolvent liquidation from being involved in another company using the same or a similar name for five years, unless a statutory exception applies. Filing a notice under Rule 22.4 is one such exception. It allows the director to act in those circumstances without committing a criminal offence or, where the business is carried on through another company, becoming personally liable for that company's debts.
The notice was published in the London Gazette on 22 May 2026.
The company
Advanced Beauty Medical Clinics Limited was incorporated on 2 April 2024 and is registered at First Floor, 65 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8SP. The SIC code on file at Companies House corresponds to specialist medical practice activities. The company was originally incorporated under the name Cavendish Clinic Ltd, which it held until 13 August 2024, when it adopted its current registered name.
Officers
The directors recorded at Companies House are Matthew James, appointed on 17 July 2025, and Anders Gunnar Sidney George, appointed on 10 March 2025. Benjamin Peter Davies served as a director from 2 April 2024 until his resignation on 19 June 2025. Anand Patel served from 10 March 2025 until 16 July 2025.
Secured charge
One outstanding charge is registered against the company. Seneca Trade Finance LTD holds a first fixed charge, created on 3 July 2024 and delivered to Companies House on 21 July 2024. It covers property, plant and machinery, intellectual property rights including patents and trade marks, and all present and future property of the company. The charge remains outstanding.
Creditors of Advanced Beauty Medical Clinics Limited who wish to submit a claim should contact the liquidator. The official notice and the full Companies House record are available through the London Gazette and Companies House respectively.
Common questions
Are you a director of the successor company?
A prohibited-name Gazette notice typically documents one of the three statutory exceptions to Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the rule against re-use of a similar name by a former director of a liquidated company). The exception is only valid if the notice meets the timing and content requirements in the relevant Rule. Read more on prohibited names.
Do you trade with the successor company?
A valid notice does not by itself revive the liabilities of the liquidated company. The successor company is a separate legal entity and the directors are personally exposed only if Section 216 is breached.
Sources
- The London Gazette notice (code Moratoria, Prohibited Names and Other: Re-use of a Prohibited Name)
- Companies House record 15609818
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