Registration number:
Asperbras Development LLP
for the Year Ended 31 December 2025
Asperbras Development LLP
Contents
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Limited liability partnership information |
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Financial Statements |
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Balance Sheet |
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Statement of Changes in Members’ Interests |
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Notes to the Financial Statements |
Asperbras Development LLP
Limited liability partnership information
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Designated members |
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Registered office |
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Accountants |
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Asperbras Development LLP
(Registration number: OC374034)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2025
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2025 |
2024 |
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Fixed assets |
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Investments |
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Current assets |
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Debtors |
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Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year |
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Net current liabilities |
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Net assets attributable to members |
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Represented by: |
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Members’ other interests |
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Members' capital classified as equity |
100 |
100 |
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100 |
100 |
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Total members' interests |
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Amounts due from members |
(123,659) |
(44,360) |
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Equity |
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(123,559) |
(44,260) |
Asperbras Development LLP
(Registration number: OC374034)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2025
For the year ending 31 December 2025 the limited liability partnership was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, as applied to limited liability partnerships, relating to small entities.
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to limited liability partnerships subject to the small limited liability partnerships regime. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the members have not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.
The members acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act, as applied to limited liability partnerships by the Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
The financial statements of Asperbras Development LLP (registered number OC374034) were approved by the
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Asperbras Development LLP
Statement of Changes in Members’ Interests
At 31 December 2025
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Equity |
Loans and other debts due to/(from) members |
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Members' capital |
Total equity |
Members' other amounts |
Total debt |
Total |
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Amounts due from members |
- |
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(44,360) |
(44,360) |
(44,360) |
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Members' interest at 1 January 2025 |
100 |
100 |
(44,360) |
(44,360) |
(44,260) |
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Members' remuneration charged as an expense |
- |
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(79,299) |
(79,299) |
(79,299) |
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At 31 December 2025 |
100 |
100 |
(123,659) |
(123,659) |
(123,559) |
Asperbras Development LLP
Statement of Changes in Members’ Interests
At 31 December 2025
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Equity |
Loans and other debts due to/(from) members |
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Members' capital |
Total equity |
Members' other amounts |
Total debt |
Total |
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Amounts due from members |
- |
- |
(30,973) |
(30,973) |
(30,973) |
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Members' interest at 1 January 2024 |
100 |
100 |
(30,973) |
(30,973) |
(30,873) |
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Members' remuneration charged as an expense |
- |
- |
(13,387) |
(13,387) |
(13,387) |
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At 31 December 2024 |
100 |
100 |
(44,360) |
(44,360) |
(44,260) |
Asperbras Development LLP
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2025
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Accounting policies |
Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates
The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.
Statement of compliance
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006.
General information and basis of accounting
The limited liability partnership is incorporated in England & Wales under the Limited Liability Partnership Act 2000. The address of the registered office is given on the limited liability partnership information page.
These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.
The functional currency of Asperbras Development LLP is considered to be US Dollars because that is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the limited liability partnership operates. Foreign operations are included in accordance with the policies set out below.
Going concern
The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.
Members' remuneration and division of profits
The SORP recognises that the basis of calculating profits for allocation may differ from the profits reflected through the financial statements prepared in compliance with recommended practice, given the established need to seek to focus profit allocation on ensuring equity between different generations and populations of members.
Consolidation of the results of certain subsidiary undertakings, the provision for annuities to current and former members, pension scheme charges, the spreading of acquisition integration costs and the treatment of long leasehold interests are all items which may generate differences between profits calculated for the purpose of allocation and those reported within the financial statements. Where such differences arise, they have been included within other amounts in the balance sheet.
Members' fixed shares of profits (excluding discretionary fixed share bonuses) and interest earned on members' balances are automatically allocated and, are treated as members' remuneration charged as an expense to the profit and loss account in arriving at profit available for discretionary division among members.
The remainder of profit shares, which have not been allocated until after the balance sheet date, are treated in these financial statements as unallocated at the balance sheet date and included within other reserves.
Taxation
The taxation payable on the partnership's profits is the personal liability of the members, Consequently, neither partnership taxation nor related deferred taxation is accounted for in these financial statements.
Asperbras Development LLP
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2025
Business combinations
Business combinations are accounted for using the purchase method. The consideration for each acquisition is measured at the aggregate of the fair values at acquisition date of assets given, liabilities incurred or assumed, and equity instruments issued by the in exchange for control of the acquired, plus any costs directly attributable to the business combination. When a business combination agreement provides for an adjustment to the cost of the combination contingent on future events, the includes the estimated amount of that adjustment in the cost of the combination at the acquisition date if the adjustment is probable and can be measured reliably.
Fixed asset investments
Investments in equity shares which are publicly traded or where the fair value can be measured reliably are initially measured at fair value, with changes in fair value recognised in profit or loss. Investments in equity shares which are not publicly traded and where fair value cannot be measured reliably are measured at cost less impairment.
Interest income on debt securities, where applicable, is recognised in income using the effective interest method. Dividends on equity securities are recognised in income when receivable.
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.
Financial instruments
Classification
All financial assets and liabilities are initially measured at transaction price (including transaction costs), except for those financial assets classified as at fair value through profit or loss, which are initially measured at fair value (which is normally the transaction price excluding transaction costs), unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction. If an arrangement constitutes a finance transaction, the financial asset or financial liability is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are only offset in the balance sheet when, and only when there exists a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and the limited liability partnership intends either to settle on a net basis, or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.
Asperbras Development LLP
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2025
Recognition and Measurement
Debt instruments which meet the following conditions are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method:
(a) The contractual return to the holder is (i) a fixed amount; (ii) a positive fixed rate or a positive variable rate; or (iii) a combination of a positive or a negative fixed rate and a positive variable rate.
(b) The contract may provide for repayments of the principal or the return to the holder (but not both) to be linked to a single relevant observable index of general price inflation of the currency in which the debt instrument is denominated, provided such links are not leveraged.
(c) The contract may provide for a determinable variation of the return to the holder during the life of the instrument, provided that (i) the new rate satisfies condition (a) and the variation is not contingent on future events other than (1) a change of a contractual variable rate; (2) to protect the holder against credit deterioration of the issuer; (3) changes in levies applied by a central bank or arising from changes in relevant taxation or law; or (ii) the new rate is a market rate of interest and satisfies condition (a).
(d) There is no contractual provision that could, by its terms, result in the holder losing the principal amount or any interest attributable to the current period or prior periods.
(e) Contractual provisions that permit the issuer to prepay a debt instrument or permit the holder to put it back to the issuer before maturity are not contingent on future events, other than to protect the holder against the credit deterioration of the issuer or a change in control of the issuer, or to protect the holder or issuer against changes in levies applied by a central bank or arising from changes in relevant taxation or law.
(f) Contractual provisions may permit the extension of the term of the debt instrument, provided that the return to the holder and any other contractual provisions applicable during the extended term satisfy the conditions of paragraphs (a) to (c).
Debt instruments that are classified as payable or receivable within one year on initial recognition and which meet the above conditions are measured at the undiscounted amount of the cash or other consideration expected to be paid or received, net of impairment.
With the exception of some hedging instruments, other debt instruments not meeting these conditions are measured at fair value through profit or loss.
Commitments to make and receive loans which meet the conditions mentioned above are measured at cost (which may be nil) less impairment.
Asperbras Development LLP
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2025
Impairment of financial assets
Financial assets are derecognised when and only when a) the contractual rights to the cash flows from the financial asset expire or are settled, b) the limited liability partnership transfers to another party substantially all of the risks and rewards of ownership of the financial asset, or c) the limited liability partnership, despite having retained some significant risks and rewards of ownership, has transferred control of the asset to another party and the other party has the practical ability to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party and is able to exercise that ability unilaterally and without needing to impose additional restrictions on the transfer.
Financial liabilities are derecognised only when the obligation specified in the contract is discharged, cancelled or expires.
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Particulars of employees |
The average number of persons employed by the limited liability partnership during the year was
Asperbras Development LLP
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2025
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Investments held as fixed assets |
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Shares in group undertakings and participating interests |
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Shares in group undertakings and participating interests
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Subsidiary undertakings |
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Cost |
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At 1 January 2025 |
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At 31 December 2025 |
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Net book value |
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At 31 December 2025 |
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At 31 December 2024 |
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Details of undertakings
Details of the investments in which the limited liability partnership holds 20% or more of the nominal value of any class of share capital are as follows:
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Subsidiary undertakings |
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Gabon |
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Development of agro-pastoral activities |
Asperbras Development LLP
Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2025
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Debtors |
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Other debtors |
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Total current trade and other debtors |
123,659 |
44,360 |
Other debtors represents amounts owed by Members.
Impaired investments
The LLP holds loan notes in an entity in Luxembourg which entered into insolvency proceedings in 2014. The original value of the loan notes was €60,000,000 ($67,954,018). The current year value, translated at the period end exchange rate, amounts to $70,588,235 (2024: $62,503,255). The value of the loan notes was impaired to nil in a prior accounting period, although the LLP hopes to recover some of its investment once insolvency proceedings are concluded.
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Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year |
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2025 |
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Other creditors |
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Accruals and deferred income |
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Control |
The members are the controlling party by virtue of their controlling interest in the limited liability partnership. The ultimate controlling party is the same as the controlling party.