It was the middle of November 2017 and a clerk in the glass-and-steel headquarters of Companies House in Edinburgh had just stamped a routine and unremarkable document.
This was an LP6, a form that records, for the UK’s corporate registry, any changes in the nature of a limited partnership.
The sheet of paper, which bore an indecipherable signature, said that a business called Newbay Investments LP had been dissolved four months earlier.
