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City Property has completed a series of three complex funding arrangements totalling £646 million having been advised by the banking & finance team at law firm Harper Macleod. City Property is ultimately controlled by Glasgow City Council, which required the funding to meet its obligations

Edinburgh-based CCTV specialist Indigovision has purchased Portuguese security software firm Agorasys SA for €2,300,000. Based in Lisbon, Portugal, Agora was a spin-out from Instituto Superior Tecnico, part of the University of Lisbon.

Following the announcement made by the Living Wage Foundation that the real living wage in the UK and London has increased, Jenny Stewart, head of infrastructure, government and healthcare at KPMG discusses what increasing the real Living Wage means for Scottish workers. Today, the real Living Wage

Glasgow boasted the highest levels of city centre take-up of any of the UK's major regional office occupier markets in the third quarter of 2019, according to a new report. Commercial real estate services firm Avison Young today published its latest research on regional office activity across the "B

A husband and wife property investor team are set to breathe new life into a tired block of flats in Aberdeen, thanks to a £437,500 cash injection from Together. Dr Mohammad Namavar and Dr Elahe Radmaneshfar plan to turn 17 serviced apartments into modern rental homes thanks to Together,

While uncertainty about the exact timing of Brexit looks set to linger on into 2020, chartered accountant Wylie & Bisset is advising Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to prepare for change now by applying for a Brexit Support Grant. Funded by the Scottish Government, the Brexit Support G

Andrew Johnston has been appointed to the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Conduct Committee alongside Colin McCarthy-Little, who has been appointed to the FRC's Audit Quality Review Committee. Mr Jonston's term commenced on 1 November 2019 and he replaces Martin Slack who stepped down on

Dave Smith, tax manager at Meston Reid & Co, has urged contractors to seek IR35 advice now and not wait until 2020 to do so. In just a few months from now, new employment tax legislation is due to come into effect for medium and large businesses that engage contractors who operate through an int

A total of £50,000 is being invested to help increase the number of women working in Scottish aquaculture. The funding will deliver a mentoring scheme to support women already working in the sector to develop their careers, and a website to promote aquaculture and job opportunities to women.

Pinsent Masons has advised Tesco as it entered into long term power purchase agreements (PPAs) with developers, EDF Renewables, ScottishPower Renewables and BayWa. As a member of the RE100 group of companies, Tesco has made a commitment to source 100% of electricity across the Tesco Group from renew

Independent commercial law firm MacRoberts has welcomed a number of new clients to the firm as a result of recent competitive tendering exercises. In the private sector, the firm has been appointed to act for CALA Homes as part of a select panel of legal advisers.

Crown Estate Scotland has generated £11.4 million for the Scottish Government in 2018-19. The organisation has also delivered on key projects designed to deliver benefit for Scotland and increase community input into how Scottish Crown Estate is managed.

BXTR, a boutique accommodation specialist, has received £1 million in funding from OakNorth Bank to help drive the expansion of a new hotel brand.

Stuart Robb and Michelle Elliot of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery Limited have been appointed joint administrators of Sharc Highlands Limited and issued a call for expressions of interest in the company's assets. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sharc Energy Limited, which

Growth among Scottish SMEs exceeds the UK average but firms are still not fulfilling their export potential, research by Censuswide for UK Export Finance (UKEF) has found.