Company insolvencies in Northern Ireland
Winding-up orders from the High Court in Belfast, creditors' voluntary liquidations, administrations and receiverships — read from the corporate notices of The Belfast Gazette and grouped by company, council area and insolvency practitioner. Solvent winding-ups are marked separately.
Cases opened, month by month
New insolvent cases by the month of their opening notice, with solvent members' winding-ups stacked on top.
Opening notices per month
By procedure
Belfast, the practitioners and the monthly swing
Three views you will not find on the Gazette itself: how Belfast compares with the other ten councils, which insolvency practitioner firms handle the cases, and how this month compares with the last.
Belfast vs the rest of NI
603 companies could not be placed — their notices print only a practitioner's office. Largest councils outside Belfast:
Practitioner firms
189 further companies sit with the Official Receiver for NI, who becomes liquidator when the High Court makes a winding-up order.
Private firms only, ranked by companies handled. The firm is read from the practitioner's address or e-mail domain in the notice; where only a domain is printed, the domain is shown.
Month on month
| Month | Insolvent | MVL | Change |
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| May 2026 | 33 | 8 | ▼ -33% |
| June 2026 | 19 | 7 | ▼ -42% |
| July 2026 | 14 | 6 | ▼ -26% |
| August 2026 | 26 | 9 | ▲ +86% |
| September 2026 | 51 | 8 | ▲ +96% |
| October 2026 (to date) | 12 | 10 | ▼ -76% |
“Insolvent” counts petitions, orders, resolutions and appointments opening a case; solvent MVLs shown apart. The change compares insolvent cases with the month before.
By council area
By county
The table holds the 400 most recently active companies. Older cases are reachable through the council, county, procedure and month pages.
| Company ↕ | Latest step ↕ | Council ↕ | Procedure ↕ | Practitioner ↕ | Date ↓ | Link |
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Company insolvency in Northern Ireland, explained briefly
Northern Ireland has its own insolvency code. Companies registered here — numbers beginning NI on the Companies House register — are wound up under the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and the Insolvency Rules (Northern Ireland) 1991, not the Insolvency Act 1986 used in England, Wales and Scotland. The steps that matter to creditors are advertised in The Belfast Gazette, and that is where every row on this site starts.
In the current twelve-month window we hold 1015 companies: 748 in an insolvent procedure and 267 closing solvently by members' voluntary liquidation.
The routes, in plain terms
Compulsory winding-up — a creditor petitions the High Court and the judge orders liquidation · Creditors' voluntary liquidation — the members resolve to close an insolvent company · Administration — a practitioner takes over to rescue the business or sell it well · Receivership — a secured lender recovers its debt from charged assets · Members' voluntary liquidation — a solvent close-down, flagged in green.
Searching and filtering
Type a company name, number or town in the search box; narrow by council or procedure. Each company has its own page with the notice trail, the practitioner firm, links to the original Gazette notice and to Companies House.
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From the Causeway to the Mournes
Companies placed at council-area level from their trading postcode. The map follows the filters above; click a marker for the company.
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