The short answer
Insolvency and dissolution events record that a company has entered bankruptcy, collective proceedings, administration or forced dissolution, or has been struck off, deleted or voluntarily liquidated. MarketPrior reads them from UK Companies House and the London Gazette, French BODACC, Norway’s Brønnøysund register and Lithuania’s register. They are opt-in: they only appear in a feed or search that names them, and they are stored with zero intent so a bankruptcy can never make a company look like a better lead.
At a glance
- Event types
- Insolvency · dissolved
- Countries
- United Kingdom · France · Norway · Lithuania
- Default feed
- No — opt-in only
- Intent score
- Always zero; seriousness is recorded as severity (high / medium)
- Evidence
- Stage, severity, judgment and date (FR), practitioners (UK)
- In diligence
- Counted as an insolvency risk event
Why are insolvency events opt-in?
A lead feed ranks companies by buying intent. A company in liquidation is not a buyer, and showing it next to companies that just raised would waste time and could be unkind. So these events are stored with an intent strength of zero and are never part of a feed or search unless you name them.
Some teams do need them — credit controllers, suppliers checking customers, investors watching a portfolio, specialists who work with distressed businesses — which is why they are recorded rather than discarded.
Which stages are recorded?
| Event | Examples of stage | Countries |
|---|---|---|
| Insolvency | Bankruptcy, liquidation judiciaire, administration, collective proceedings | UK · FR · NO · LT |
| Dissolved | Struck off, radiation, deleted, voluntary liquidation, dissolution | UK · FR · NO · LT |
How are these events used in diligence?
In a diligence report, an insolvency notice is a risk finding, cited to the notice. Directors who also appear on other companies’ insolvency notices are surfaced too — the kind of connection that is easy to miss when you only look at one company. On a watchlist, a new insolvency notice produces an alert with the source attached.