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Rooney Nimmo has appointed Scott Nelson as partner based in its London and Edinburgh offices. Mr Nelson is is a highly-experienced corporate transactional lawyer who has spent his entire legal career focused on the representation of leading private equity funds and sponsors in all aspects of their i

The Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers in Scotland (IAAS) has appointed Neil Wilson, former head of agriculture at HSBC Bank, as its executive director. Mr Wilson has been appointed to help intensify the Institutes' fight for the interests of members and the wider livestock industry and&nb

READ Cased Hole has revamped its senior leadership team by appointing its chief financial officer Bruce Melvin to the role of CEO. Mr Melvin joined READ in 2014 as chief financial officer and has over 15 years of financial management experience in medium and large global oilfield service provid

High Street banks have slashed financial support for SMEs in Scotland by £465 million, a decrease of 5.8% between 2014 and 2018, according to Iwoca.

BNI Scotland North, a business network in the North of Scotland, is following a remarkable year which saw its members generate more than £19 million worth of business. The latest figures reveal BNI Scotland North members passed business leads to each other that were worth £19,205,390 in

Susan Currie, solicitor at Blackadders, discusses the intricacies of tax avoidance schemes and liquidation. In this day and age tax avoidance schemes are rarely out of the news. The schemes, although they may not be moral, are legal. Tax avoidance is when an individual or company arranges their asse

Retail sales in December 2019 fell by 0.6%, the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found.

Three-quarters of Scottish firms believe that giving councils additional powers over non-domestic rates would be bad for business, according to a new survey from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). The poll - conducted over the last month - also shows that seven in 10 businesses are opposed to

Loan payments are now being issued to provide financial support to hill farmers and crofters in some of Scotland’s most remote and marginalised areas, the Scottish Government has announced. Under the first tranche of the Less Favoured Area Support Loan Scheme payments, more than 7,500 eligible

Lanarkshire-based sausage skin maker Devro has issued a profit warning after the firm saw lower than expected second-half sales which it expects will affect last year's profits.

Arbroath-based fish company RR Spink & Sons has seen revenues reach £31.7 million for the year ended March 31 2019, an increase of over £6m from 2018.

CBRE has released its latest figures on Scotland’s office market, revealing an encouraging performance despite ongoing political uncertainty. The final quarter of 2019 saw Glasgow office take-up of 248,207 sq ft, bringing the 2019 total to 856,410 sq ft. The take-up for the quarter was 12.17%

The two private finance initiative (PFI) hospitals that Carillion was building at the time it collapsed are currently due for completion at vastly increased budgets with most of the increased costs being met by the contractor and private PFI investors, a National Audit Office (NAO) investigatio

HMRC has highlighted ten of the weirdest excuses and expense claims it has received in the last decade. The top ten most bizarre excuses and questionable expenses claims for items, in reverse order, are:

Blair Nimmo and James Lumb from KPMG’s restructuring practice have been appointed joint administrators of Dumfries-based Penman MW Ltd, trading as Penman Engineering. So far, 44 employees have been made redundant, with the remaining 17 members of staff being retained to assist the administrati