Fulcrums

Leon Restaurants Limited

Restaurant Chain · £65M turnover · Liquidation, February 2023 · Companies House #05018441

Naturally fast food chain with 70+ UK sites. Fulcrums elevated Leon to High Risk 25 months before liquidation, anchored by a CFO resignation, an unprecedented eight-director resignation in a single day, and deeply negative net assets.

Signals detected

The pattern, in order.

  1. 1

    CFO resigned 25 months before failure

  2. 2

    8 directors resigned on the SAME DAY (May 2021)

  3. 3

    60 company change events the following day

  4. 4

    OakNorth Bank ALL ASSETS charge

  5. 5

    Net assets deeply negative at -£21.9M

  6. 6

    Accounts filed 348 days late