API Group Administrations and Liquidation

Cedar 2015 Limited
API Group Services Limited
API-Stace Limited
API Laminates Limited
API Foils Holdings Limited
API Foils Limited
API Holographics Limited

(all in Administration) 

API Group Limited (previously API Group PLC) (in Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation)

(together ‘the Companies’)

On 31 January 2020, Colin Peter Dempster and Robert Hunter Kelly were appointed as Joint Administrators of the Companies. The Appointment was made by the Group’s directors under the provisions of Paragraph 22(2) of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986.

On 11 December 2020, API Group Limited was moved into Creditors Voluntary Liquidation and Colin Peter Dempster and Robert Hunter Kelly were appointed Joint Liquidators pursuant to Paragraph 83 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986.

Due to Robert Hunter Kelly’s retiral from EY, Timothy Graham Vance of EY was appointed as a substitute office holder as both Joint Administrator and Joint Liquidator, as relevant, by the High Court of Justice on 27 June 2022.

Further information and documents regarding the Administration and Liquidation will be uploaded to this website. Queries specifically relating to the Administrations and Liquidation should be emailed to apigroup@uk.ey.com.

The Joint Administrators and Joint Liquidators may act as data controllers of personal data as defined by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (as incorporated in the Data Protection Act 2018), depending upon the specific processing activities undertaken. Ernst & Young LLP and/or the Group may act as a data processor on the instructions of the Joint Administrators and Joint Liquidators. Personal data will be kept secure and processed only for matters relating to the Joint Administrators’ and Joint Liquidators’ appointment. The Office Holder Data Privacy Notice can be found at www.ey.com/uk/officeholderprivacy

C P Dempster

Joint Administrator / Joint Liquidator

Administration Documents


C P Dempster and R H Kelly are both licensed in the United Kingdom to act as Insolvency Practitioners by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. As Insolvency Practitioners, they are bound by the Insolvency Code of Ethics in carrying out all professional work relating to the appointment
The affairs, business and property of the Company are being managed by the Joint Administrators, C P Dempster and R H Kelly, who act as agents of the Company only and without personal liability.
The Joint Administrators and Joint Liquidators may act as data controllers of personal data as defined by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (as incorporated in the Data Protection Act 2018), depending upon the specific processing activities undertaken. Ernst & Young LLP and/or the Company may act as a data processor on the instructions of the Joint Administrators and Joint Liquidators. Personal data will be kept secure and processed only for matters relating to the Joint Administrators’ and Joint Liquidators appointment. The Office Holder Data Privacy Notice can be found at www.ey.com/uk/officeholderprivacy.