Tec Partners Limited directors file prohibited-name notice to continue as Tec Partners Recruitment Limited
Three directors of Tec Partners Limited, which entered administration on 1 May 2026, have filed a Section 216 prohibited-name notice to trade as Tec Partners Recruitment Limited. Full notice and Companies House record.
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Three directors of Tec Partners Limited filed a prohibited-name notice on 22 May 2026, three weeks after the Reading-based business entered administration, to allow them to carry on trading under the similar name Tec Partners Recruitment Limited.
The notice, published in the London Gazette under Rule 22.4 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016, was signed by Leigh Michael Howard, Christopher Beech and Paul Stephen Kitley, all of 9 Greyfriars Road, Reading, Berkshire. All three were directors of Tec Partners Limited on 1 May 2026, the day the company entered administration. Administration is a formal insolvency process in which licensed insolvency practitioners take control of a company to rescue it, sell it as a going concern, or realise its assets for creditors.
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 one of the statutory exceptions applies. Tec Partners Limited is currently in administration rather than liquidation, but the notice is filed in anticipation of the company potentially going into insolvent liquidation.
By filing under Rule 22.4, Howard, Beech and Kitley are using a permitted exception. It allows them to act in connection with a business carried on under a prohibited name without committing a criminal offence and, where that business is run through another company, without becoming personally liable for that company's debts.
The business they intend to carry on is described in the notice as the whole or substantially the whole of the business of Tec Partners Limited.
The company
Tec Partners Limited was incorporated on 2 April 2004 and has operated under two earlier names. It traded as ABRS Group Limited from incorporation until April 2009, then as Bailey Group Limited until August 2017, before adopting the Tec Partners Limited name. Its registered address has moved to care of RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP, Fifth Floor, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL, though the directors give their address as the former registered office in Reading.
Companies House records the company's SIC code as 70100, covering the activities of head offices and management consultancy.
The directors
The four current directors listed at Companies House are Andrew Lloyd Bailey, who has served since April 2004, alongside Howard, Beech and Kitley, all appointed in December 2016. Howard, Beech and Kitley signed the prohibited-name notice. Bailey is not a signatory.
No secured charges are registered against Tec Partners Limited, and no administrator names are recorded in the Gazette notice.
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 05092052
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