How rich is Rupert lywood?

Answer 1

$77 million was the old Rich List figure from 2009. A large chunk of his wealth comes from Energy and Property deals. He has probably sheltered his assets from taxation through a complicated LLP system (see companies house). In 2015 and 2016 he executed sequential block sells of all his stock from a publicly traded genetic diagnostic company (Premaitha Health Ltd.) of which he was a large shareholder, as was Loxbridge Research. This caused an outcry in the shareholder community as this high degree of insider selling damaged the share price significantly, of which it is still to recover. Presumably, he really must have needed the money to damage a company so badly for such little return.

Previously there are public records of his purchasing a sailing yacht company - Najad, which then went into administration. Matrix, his accountancy firm also wound up a few years back after failing to transition into an investment bank (CityAM covered this). From companies house, he has held >50 directorships, many resigned, none of these companies are of any note.

He's a pub landlord on the plus side, (The Jolly Frog - Companies House) and won an Academy Award for producing an excellent film, Tsotsi, in 2005, and recently the highly unfunny and crass Chuck Steel: Raging Balls of Justice (not a joke). He is also Chairman of "Venture Pilot" firm Loxbridge Research LLC, the site is now no longer active, so presumably this has been shuttered also. Unclear what relationship Loxbridge has/had to Animatrix Capital - or whether that is an active vehicle (or just a means of sheltering income?). It appears that perhaps he didn't have a formula for sustainable success, and just got lucky early on. Hopefully Premaitha will survive on its own merits now Lywood is no longer in a position to compromise it.

He appears to be still active in the power and renewable energy space. He also has been featured as co-founder of Tengi (some form of whatsapp clone covered in a Sheffield-based paper), as well as Envirocapital.