# Greensill Capital: UK company entered administration

Greensill Capital Pty Ltd (group parent); Greensill Capital (UK) Limited (UK administrator appointment) · United Kingdom · Supply chain finance

Evidence reviewed Oct 26, 2026. Historical event record.

Greensill Capital’s UK company entered administration in March 2021. Its earlier private valuation was discussed in evidence to the UK Treasury Committee after the collapse.

## Historical private valuation

$3.5bn · 2019

Treasury Committee evidence identifies the $3.5 billion valuation associated with SoftBank’s capital injection; Lex Greensill discussed and accepted that reference during his testimony.

[UK Parliament](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2149/html/)

## Documented event

UK company entered administration · Mar 8, 2021

No transaction price shown. The statutory notice records the appointment of administrators to Greensill Capital (UK) Limited on March 8, 2021. Administration is the specific UK insolvency proceeding recorded.

[The Gazette](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3762079)

## What changed

The valuation benchmark relates to the private group; the dated insolvency event concerns its UK operating company. Administration is a process for handling the company’s affairs and assets, and does not itself state the final recovery of any customer, creditor or investor.

## Timeline

### 2019 — Private capital injection

The later parliamentary hearing examined the valuation used for SoftBank’s investment in the private group.

[UK Parliament](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2149/html/)

### Mar 8, 2021 — Administrators appointed

The UK statutory appointment notice names the operating company and the three Grant Thornton administrators.

[The Gazette](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3762079)

### May 11, 2021 — Founder gave parliamentary evidence

Lex Greensill acknowledged responsibility for the company’s collapse in evidence to the Treasury Committee.

[UK Parliament](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2149/html/)

## Disclosed investors

Historical funding participation; not current ownership or investor losses.

- SoftBank Vision Fund — [UK Parliament](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2149/html/)

- General Atlantic — [UK Parliament](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2149/html/)

## Sources

- [Treasury Committee: Lessons from Greensill Capital, oral evidence HC 151](https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2149/html/) — UK Parliament; published May 11, 2021; accessed Oct 26, 2026; primary source.

- [Greensill Capital (UK) Limited: appointment of administrators](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3762079) — The Gazette; published Mar 12, 2021; accessed Oct 26, 2026; primary source.

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