The Tec Recruitment Group Limited: directors file prohibited-name notice to trade as TEC Partners Recruitment Limited

The three directors of The Tec Recruitment Group Limited have filed a Section 216 prohibited-name notice, stating their intention to carry on the business under the near-identical name TEC Partners Recruitment Limited after the company entered administration on 1 May 2026.

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. The notice, published in the London Gazette on 22 May 2026, invokes the rule 22.4 exception under the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016, which allows directors to give advance notice of their intention to use a prohibited name rather than seek court permission.

The company and its directors

The Tec Recruitment Group Limited was incorporated on 15 September 2015 and is classified under SIC code 70229, covering management consultancy activities other than financial management. On entering administration its registered office moved to care of RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP, Fifth Floor, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL; it had previously traded from 9 Greyfriars Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1NU.

The company was originally incorporated as TEC Partners Limited, a name it held until 25 August 2017. The proposed successor vehicle, TEC Partners Recruitment Limited, echoes that earlier identity.

All three directors, Leigh Michael Howard, Christopher Beech and Paul Stephen Kitley, were appointed on the day of incorporation and remained in post on 1 May 2026 when administration began. Howard, Beech and Kitley are each listed at 9 Greyfriars Road, Reading, the company's former trading address.

The administration

RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP, based in Leeds, is acting in the administration. Administration is a formal insolvency process in which licensed insolvency practitioners take control of a company to attempt to rescue it, sell it as a going concern, or realise its assets for creditors. No individual administrators are named in the Section 216 notice, and the bundle contains no further detail on the appointment.

What the notice means

By filing under rule 22.4, the directors are giving formal notice to creditors of The Tec Recruitment Group Limited that they intend to act in connection with TEC Partners Recruitment Limited, including potentially directing or managing it. The notice does not itself authorise that conduct if the company goes into insolvent liquidation. It operates as a statutory safeguard that removes criminal liability and the risk of personal liability for the new company's debts, provided the notice is properly given. Creditors of the insolvent company are the intended audience for the disclosure.