Old Park Lane Capital Limited faces winding-up petition filed by its own PwC administrators

The administrators of Old Park Lane Capital Limited have filed a winding-up petition against the company they are already running, placing the firm in the unusual position of being both petitioner and subject of the same court action.

The petition was presented on 29 January 2026 by Old Park Lane Capital Limited (in Administration), acting through its joint administrators Douglas Nigel Rackham and David James Kelly of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. A winding-up petition is a court filing asking the court to make a winding-up order; filing the petition does not place the company into liquidation. The matter is listed before the Insolvency and Companies List (ChD) - the specialist list within the Chancery Division of the High Court that handles insolvency and company-law applications - at the Rolls Building, 7 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NL on Monday 8 June 2026 at 10:30.

The company

Old Park Lane Capital Limited is registered at 7 More London Riverside, London SE1 2RT, the same address given for Rackham and Kelly in the petition. The company carries SIC code 66120, covering activities auxiliary to financial services, broadly securities and investment dealing activities.

Companies House records show the company was incorporated on 29 November 2007, originally as Old Park Lane Capital PLC. It converted to a private limited company and the PLC name ceased on 26 May 2015. The last filed accounts on record were made up to 31 December 2013. The court reference for the matter is CR-2016-005979.

The administrators

Rackham and Kelly are both of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose address for the purposes of this matter is given as 7 More London Riverside, London SE1 2RT. The petitioner's solicitor is McCarthy Denning Limited of 70 Mark Lane, London EC3R 7NQ.

Anyone intending to appear at the hearing, whether to support or oppose the petition, must give notice in accordance with rule 7.14 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 by 16:00 on Friday 5 June 2026.

Officers on record

All directors and secretaries on the Companies House record for Old Park Lane Capital have resigned. Michael Parnes served as both secretary and director from incorporation on 29 November 2007 until 29 April 2015. Charles Joseph Knott was a director from 16 April 2015 until 31 December 2015, and Anne Christine Stratford-Martin held a directorship from 15 October 2014 until 24 August 2015.

Earlier directors included Malcolm Edwin Coomber, who served from 29 April 2008 until 30 September 2009, John Robert Foley from 7 January 2008 until 24 February 2010, David Clifford Jackson from 1 October 2009 until 1 May 2013, and Stanley Anthony Salter from 1 May 2013 until 10 October 2014. Eva Laurencikova held a directorship from 3 January 2008 until 7 January 2008. Maria Gabriela Silvestris served as secretary from 4 April 2008 until 4 November 2009. Douglas Nominees Limited and M W Douglas and Company Limited were each appointed and resigned on the same day at incorporation on 29 November 2007, a standard formation-agent arrangement.

Seeking a winding-up order is a recognised step in the later stages of an administration where a formal liquidation is needed to conclude the distribution of assets to creditors.