Coutts & Company

Coutts & Company is a London private bank, registered in England and Wales under company number 00036695 and incorporated on 24 June 1892 as a private unlimited company. Its registered office is 440 Strand, London WC2R 0QS, and its SIC code is 64191, banks. It was active on the Companies House register at the date of checking. Its only previous name on the register is Messrs Coutts & Company Limited, carried from 24 June 1892 to 12 August 1892.

It appears in this directory because of one document. On 10 May 2024 it took a mortgage debenture from Kalakuta Sunrise Limited, the London company that holds the exclusive licence to the Fela Anikulapo-Kuti master recordings. The instrument, on the bank’s own form “Debenture Secs 1 (9/06)”, took a fixed charge over all of that company’s intellectual property rights, licences and choses in action, present and future, with copyright named expressly in the definition. The register entry names Coutts & Company as the person entitled. The company number and the 440 Strand address printed on the instrument match this registration exactly.

Coutts filed the statement of satisfaction itself, in the capacity of charge holder, on 12 June 2026. The charge was recorded as satisfied in full.

Coutts is a lender here, not an owner, an administrator, a publisher or a distributor. Taking a fixed charge over intellectual property is not taking title to it. No evidence was located that the bank ever enforced the security, and the borrower’s own audited accounts for the year to 31 December 2024 state that the debenture secured no liabilities at the reporting date.