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Paula McAllister of Dundee-based EQ Accountants has featured on the ICAS Top 100 Chartered Accountants list for this year.  Ms McAllister joined EQ in 2009 as a trainee Chartered Accountant, qualifying in 2012 – a prize winner for her academic achievements in her ICAS studies.

Addleshaw Goddard has advised Frontier IP's £2.33 million capital raising campaign.  The campaign by the firm, which is a specialist in commercialising intellectual property, comprised of a placing and offer for subscription.

Edinburgh-based smart home security start-up Boundary Technologies has completed a £1.7 million annual fundraiser, bringing the amount secured by the firm thus far to £3.9m.

The Higgins Report of the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery for the Scottish Government has attracted considerable comment in the media and several alternative views have surfaced from senior business figures. At the same time, Campbell Dallas has been holding round table and one to one discussion

Zumo, the Edinburgh-based cryptocurrency exchange and platform, has joined forces with waste management charity WasteAid to support community-level action against plastics pollution across several developing markets.

Paul Allen and Chad Griffin, partners at FRP Advisory, have been appointed joint liquidators of Drake Estates Property Company Limited and Aston Darby Group Limited.  The companies, which had raised approximately £25 million from investors, own a substantial and prominent car pa

Solicitor estate agents have accused the Scottish government of creating dangerous uncertainty in the housing market by announcing a proposed change to the property tax threshold without stating when it will be introduced. Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LB

Edinburgh-based Reactec, a tech firm which recently launched a social distancing monitoring device, has completed a £700,000 funding round led by Archangels.  The money raised will be used for the ongoing development of its personal monitoring equipment and reporting technology.

Business leaders in Scotland have called for the government to replace Business Rates with an online sales tax similar to Digital Services Tax, according to a new poll conducted by accountancy and advisory firm BDO LLP. A significant majority (81%) of Scottish respondents indicated that with busines

Shona Fraser, partner and agricultural business specialist at accountants Chiene + Tait, discusses the importance of the UK Agriculture Bill. The UK Agriculture Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords last week with growing concerns raised about the lack of amendments to protect UK farmers

UK households repaid a record £7.4 billion of unsecured debt in April, according to data published by the Bank of England.

Scottish start-ups have recorded their lowest first quarter for fundraising in over twenty years as the coronavirus impacted investor confidence, according to new research from Refinitiv.

Handwritten U2 lyrics have sold for £76,000 in a coronavirus charity auction.

Ann Frances Cooney, legal director at Addleshaw Goddard, has warned that employers looking to take advantage of the UK government’s plans to extend the furlough scheme to October should do so with a degree of caution.  Ms Cooney, who has specialised in employment law for over a decad

The Mexican Government is set to auction off a $2.3 million mansion which was once owned by the infamous drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes.