Emerald Law Solicitors Ltd faces a winding-up petition

The most recent insolvency notice for Emerald Law Solicitors Ltd is a Petitions to wind up (Companies), published 11 September 2026 in The London Gazette. The petition was presented by Arclive Ltd. The case is before the Business and Property Courts in England And Wales (case CR-2026-006134). The petition was listed to be heard on 23 September 2026 at 10:30am — a date that has now passed, and the Gazette notice is not updated afterwards. Its last accounts filed at Companies House, to 31 October 2024, showed total assets of £9.9m and net assets of £2.9m. Those accounts were filed 22 months before the first insolvency notice, so they describe the company well before the process began. A winding-up petition asks the court to close a company and place it into compulsory liquidation, most often because a debt has gone unpaid. If the court makes a winding-up order, control passes to the Official Receiver or an appointed liquidator, the company's bank accounts are frozen and its assets are sold to repay creditors.

The petitioning creditor is another company, so the debt behind the petition is a commercial one — typically an unpaid invoice, rent, or a judgment that went unsatisfied — rather than a tax liability.

What happens next

At the hearing the court decides whether to make a winding-up order. Until it does, the petition can still be dismissed or withdrawn — if the debt is paid, if it is genuinely disputed on substantial grounds, if the company has a cross-claim larger than the debt, or if the court is persuaded to adjourn while a rescue or refinancing is put in place. If an order is made, the company stops trading, its bank accounts are frozen, control passes to the Official Receiver and a liquidator is appointed to sell the assets and pay creditors in the order fixed by law.

Quote case number CR-2026-006134 and the Business and Property Courts in England And Wales in any correspondence about the case, together with company number 08837492.