How to Check Company Directors

You can check the directors of a limited company using the data held by Companies House.

You may want to check company directors for several reasons, including understanding a company’s financial stability, as part of a legitimacy check or as an aspect of your legal compliance process. Whatever the case, checking company directors is a fundamental aspect of the due diligence process for many companies.

Checking company directors with Companies House

Companies House holds a huge range of data on limited companies registered in the UK, including information about the directors of a given company. To check information about company directors using Companies House, you can do the following.

1. Visit the Companies House website

Navigate to the Companies House website.

2. Search for the company

Use the search function to find the company whose directors you wish to check. You can search either by company name or registration number.

3. Review company details

Once you have found the company, click on it to access the detailed information. This will include details including the registration number, registered address and the incorporation date.

4. Navigate to the ‘People’ section

Click on the tab labelled ‘People’, this section will provide you with information about the directors and other persons of significant control.

5. View the director’s details

From here, you can click on the names of the directors to access their individual profiles. This will show you information such as their date of birth, role in the company, nationality and the date they were appointed.

Automating Company director checks

Manually navigating through the company details section of the Companies House website every time you need to check director information can be very time-consuming if it’s a necessary part of your due diligence process every time an application comes through.

With SalesTech, the entire pre-qualification, due diligence, underwriting and onboarding process can be fully automated using a suite of integrations. Using both Companies House and business credit data, our automated decision engine scores businesses against your custom criteria, freeing up your time so you have more time to spend on scaling your business.