Logic Investments Ltd

Reference number: 516459

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Authorised, but in an insolvency process

This firm is under the control of insolvency practitioners and may have stopped taking on new business. If you are or were a customer, deal with the appointed office holders rather than the firm.

What the FCA says

ATTENTION - Firm in an insolvency process

This firm is in an insolvency process. It is under the control of the appointed insolvency office holder(s) and may have stopped taking on new business. It has to continue to meet our standards in line with its regulatory status, including when dealing with its customers. If you are/were a customer check how this affects you with the firm or the appointed insolvency office holder(s).

Website, phone number and address

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  • No website on the FCA register

  • No phone number on the FCA register

  • Address

    Alex Watkins and Joshua Dwyer, Interpath Advisory, 130 ST VINCENT ST, Glasgow, G2 5HF, United Kingdom

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Other names (2)

If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.

  • Investus Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
  • Logic Corporate Finance Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.

Past FCA permissions and consumer protection

  • In an insolvency process
    Money the firm held is returned through the appointed office holders, which takes time and can fall short. The FSCS covers eligible claims up to its limits, and the Ombudsman can still look at a complaint.
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  • Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
  • Arranging safeguarding and administration of assets
  • Dealing in investments as agent
  • Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
  • Safeguarding and administration of assets (without arranging)

Limits on the record

  • Restriction on new clients, accepting client money or assets, fees, and assets restrictions
    Restriction on Onboarding New Clients 1. The Firm must not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, on-board any new customers. Restrictions on Client Money and Assets 2. The Firm must not accept, without prior written consent of the Authority, any new client money or new safe custody assets from, or on the account of, existing or new clients. This requirement does not apply to the acceptance of new client monies or custody assets from existing clients as a result of or in relation to the following: a) Receipt of dividends or coupons; b) Rights issues; c) Corporate actions including maturing bonds; d) Receipts of new client money or custody assets from an existing client which have not been solicited by the Firm, but such receipts must be returned by the Firm to the client on the same working day of receipt or where this is not possible as soon as reasonably practicable; e) Settlement of trades instructed but not settled as at date of the requirement taking effect; and f) Margin calls and movements associated with trades and positions that are open as at the date of this requirement taking effect. 3. The firm is permitted to facilitate the trading of safe custody assets in exchange for client money, but the Firm must not return client money or safe custody assets to customers without the prior written consent of the Authority. Restriction on further fees being taken from clients 4. With immediate effect, the Firm must not deduct any further fees from clients (including, but not limited to, annual management fees, inactivity fees and commission payments), other than where it has the express written consent of the Authority. Assets Restrictions 5. Save as set out in sub-paragraphs (6) and (7) below, the Firm must not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, in any way dispose of , withdraw, transfer, deal with or diminish the value of any of its own assets whether held by the Firm as at the date of the imposition of the Requirements or acquired thereafter; 6. The Firm may continue dealing with or disposing of any of its own assets in the ordinary and proper course of business provided that the sum or value of such dealings or disposals, whether as a single transaction or a combination of related transactions, does not exceed £1,000 (or £3,000 in the case of legal expenses); 7. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (6) above, the following would be in the ordinary and proper course of business: a) Any fees incurred or paid in exchange for professional advisory services provided to the Firm; or b) Any salaries of the Firm’s staff, including to its directors, contractors or any other employees, where such salaries have been agreed prior to the imposition of the Requirements; 8. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (6) above, the following would not be in the ordinary and proper course of business: a) The making of any distribution to the Firm’s shareholders whether by way of capital distribution or dividends; b) Subject to sub-paragraph (7)(b) above, any discretionary payment to the Firm’s shareholders, directors, officers, employees, any connected entities or persons, with the exception of payments pre-agreed with the Authority; c) The making of any gift or loan by the Firm to any party; or the entry into any financial reconstruction, sale of any part of the Firm (whether share or asset based) or reorganisation. 9. Sub-paragraphs (5) to (8) constitute an assets requirement within the meaning of section 55P(4)(a) of the Act.
  • Retention and notification requirements
    Retention requirement 10. The Firm must secure all books and records and preserve all information, including material held via online/cloud-based systems to which the Firm has access, in relation to regulated activities carried on by it. These include but are not limited to all: a) Client lists; b) Communications with clients; and c) Financial records. 11. These books, records and information must be retained in a form and at a location within the UK to be notified to the Authority within 24 hours of the receipt of this notice. The records must be retained in a form and at a location such that they can be provided to the Authority, or to a person named by the Authority, promptly upon its request. Notification requirements 12. By 5pm on 16 December 2025, the Firm must publish in a prominent place on every website in its name (or that it operates) a notice setting out the terms and effects of the Requirements and the actions its clients can take to access their funds. The wording of this notice must be agreed by 12pm on 16 December with the Authority. 13. The Firm must, by 5pm on 17 December 2025 date, notify any investor, potential investor, or other relevant person directly affected by the Requirements of the terms and effect of the Requirements. The wording of this communication and the method of delivery must be agreed by 5pm on 16 December 2025 with the Authority. 14. Once the notifications referred to in sub-paragraphs (12) and (13) above have been made, within 24 hours, the Firm must supply to the Authority: a. Copies of the template notifications sent to all recipients; b. A list of all parties to whom notifications have been sent; and c. Confirmation that, to the best of its knowledge, the Firm has sent the specified notifications to all relevant parties. 15. A Senior Management Function holder of the Firm must provide written confirmation to the Authority by email by 14:00 every Friday until such time as it is notified in writing by the Authority that it may cease to do so, that it is in compliance with these Requirements. 16. The Firm must provide to the Authority, by no later than 12 noon each Friday until such time as is notified otherwise in writing by the Authority (starting from the first Friday after the imposition of the Requirements), account statements for all of the Firm’s bank accounts, showing all transactions for those accounts for the preceding seven days.

FCA disciplinary action and complaints

No FCA disciplinary action.

The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.

Companies House record

The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.

Concerns on the company record

  • Companies House records this company in administration, but it is still authorised on the FCA register.
  • This company has insolvency history on record.
Company status
Administration
Company type
Private limited company
Incorporated
1 December 2009 (16 years old)
Registered office
C/O Interpath Ltd, 10 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RB
Nature of business
  • Security and commodity contracts dealing activities (SIC 66120)

Directors and company secretaries

Name Role Born Appointed Other companies
Darren John Easton Director Aug 1979 1 Dec 2009 1 other company
Adam Herringer Director Mar 1981 9 Aug 2023 None
Christopher John Aitken Andrew Director Apr 1974 20 Nov 2023 None
Simon Philip Mcgivern Director Jul 1973 20 Nov 2023 None
Nicola Baldwin Director Apr 1976 13 Aug 2025 None

Other companies run by these 5 directors

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other company
1
closed down
1

In the full report: all 1 company, named

  • What each company does, and whether it is still trading
  • Which of these 5 directors sit on each board, and since when
  • Any that went into liquidation or administration
  • All 8 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
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Filed accounts and finances

Year to 31 March 2023Full accountsAudited

Turnover

£985k

+6.1% from £928k

Profit before tax

£28.6k

−35% from £44.0k

Net assets

£358k

+8.7% from £330k

Cash at bank

£298k

−1.6% from £303k

Turnover and profit

In the full report: all 4 years of accounts

  • Every year from 2020 to 2023
  • Both charts, over every year
  • Every filed figure, year by year
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About these figures
Turnover
Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
Profit before tax
What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
Net assets, or total equity
Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
Total assets and total liabilities
Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
Cash at bank
Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
Owed within a year, owed after a year
Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.

Accounts filed at Companies House for company 07092136. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.

Key dates in its history

Logic Investments’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.

2025

16 December 2025

  • FCA imposed a requirement (Restriction on new clients, accepting client money or assets, fees, and assets restrictions)
  • FCA imposed a requirement (Retention and notification requirements)

FCA register

2023

8 June 2023

  • Darren John Easton stopped being a part-owner
  • Khilan Shah stopped being a part-owner
  • Oberon Securities Ltd became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)

Companies House

2016

6 April 2016

  • Darren John Easton became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
  • Khilan Shah became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)

Companies House

2013

1 April 2013

  • Regulated by the FCA from this date

FCA register

2010

4 October 2010

  • Regulated by the Financial Services Authority from this date
  • Became authorised by the FCA

FCA register

2009

1 December 2009

  • Incorporated at Companies House

Companies House

In the full report: all 28 events

  • All 28 events in its history (11 shown here)
  • Every director appointment and resignation: 11
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Firms connected to Logic Investments

Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Logic Investments. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.

connected firm
1
share its postcode
1

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  • How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
  • Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
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Firms like Logic Investments

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  • 1 other company its directors have run, named
  • 1 background check on its contact details
  • 4 years of accounts, charted
  • All 28 events in its history
  • 1 connected firm, named, and who links them

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Frequently asked questions about this firm

Is Logic Investments Ltd FCA authorised?
Yes, Logic Investments Ltd (FRN 516459) is authorised by the FCA to carry out regulated activities. It is also in an insolvency process, under the control of insolvency practitioners, so deal with the appointed office holders rather than the firm. It has held its current authorisation since October 2010 and works as an investment platform or stockbroker. The FCA has placed 2 limits on what it may do.
Is Logic Investments a scam or clone?
Logic Investments is a genuine FCA-listed firm, and the FCA has published no warnings about fake versions of it. Scammers do copy real firms, though, so check that any contact details you were given match the ones on the register.
Is my money safe with Logic Investments?
Logic Investments is under the control of insolvency practitioners, so money it held is returned through the appointed office holders rather than by the firm. That takes time and can fall short. Where money is missing, the FSCS covers eligible claims up to its limits, and the Financial Ombudsman Service can still consider a complaint.
Who owns Logic Investments?
Logic Investments is owned by Oberon Securities Ltd, which holds 50–75% of shares, 50–75% of votes, can appoint and remove the board, significant influence or control and held through a firm, since 8 June 2023. Before that, it was controlled by Mr Khilan Shah and Mr Darren John Easton.
Who runs Logic Investments?
Companies House lists 5 directors of Logic Investments: Darren John Easton, Adam Herringer, Christopher John Aitken Andrew, Simon Philip McGivern and Nicola Baldwin.
How long has Logic Investments been in business?
The company was formed on 1 December 2009. Companies House now lists it as administration.
What do Logic Investments’ latest accounts show?
Its latest accounts, to 31 March 2023, show turnover of £985k (+6.1% from £928k) and profit before tax of £28.6k (−35% from £44.0k).
Does Logic Investments use any other names?
It has previously used 2 other names: Investus and Logic Corporate Finance.

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