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KPMG UK has appointed Fiona Robertson as associate director within its corporate finance M&A team in Scotland. Ms Robertson joins the professional services firm from Azets, where she was director of corporate finance for the past two years.

Shoosmiths advised on more than 400 transactions with an aggregate deal value of £5 billion from January to December 2022. Corporate activity levels remained elevated throughout last year, with the firm's corporate team working across a record number of deals spanning private equity, mergers a

Goodstone Living has agreed £67 million of debt financing with Natwest for the development of its next generation build-to-rent residential community in Edinburgh.

Scotland has seen the UK’s largest number of smaller business equity deals in net zero sectors outside of London, according to new research released today by the British Business Bank. The Bank’s Small Business Finance Markets 2022/23 report found that Scotland accounted for 14% of net z

Bob Barr has joined the board of Action for Financial Inclusion (AfFI), the charitable CIC which has developed payroll saving in Scotland. AfFI is funded by the Scottish Government through leading credit unions.

Edinburgh-based payment orchestration provider BR-DGE has partnered with payments firm Total Processing to drive better payment experiences for merchants and customers. Merchants will now be able to complement BR-DGE's services with Total Processing’s solutions, offering them access to its net

Inverness’ first distillery in 130 years has officially opened, reconnecting the highland capital with its proud but lost whisky and brewing history. The £7.5 million Uile-bheist distillery and brewery on River Ness, powered by a low carbon sustainability centre on site, is expected to a

Edinburgh-based Capital Credit Union (CCU) is offering football fans an interest free loan to buy their season tickets, in the first scheme of its kind in the UK. CCU has partnered with Hibs to offer the club’s fans an ethical, interest free loan to help spread the cost of supporting their tea

Cairney & Company, a Scottish female-run fundraising consultancy advising global clients has seen a 60% growth in turnover year on year in 2021/2022, after accessing specialist support from Business Gateway, Scotland’s national business advisory service.

Business confidence in Scotland rose four points during February to 14%, according to the latest Business Barometer from Bank of Scotland Commercial Banking.

Sandy Merson, Group Head of Operations and Maintenance at Petrofac (L) and Alan McQuade, Group Managing Director, ICR (R) Bridge of Don-based ICR Integrity (ICR), global provider of specialist repair, inspection and integrity solutions, has announced the re-award of their Master Service Agreement (M

Law firm Eversheds is taking almost 6,000sq ft of space on the ground floor of BAM Properties’ and Federated Hermes’s Capital Square development in Edinburgh. Eversheds becomes the sixth occupier to commit to the building following law firms Anderson Strathern, Pinsent Mason and Brodies,

BrewDog has made a fake ALDI beer in reaction to the supermarket producing a fake BrewDog IPA. James Watt, the CEO and co-founder of BrewDog, revealed in a LinkedIn post this morning that the after the release of BrewDog's fake ALDI beer, ALDI got in touch asking to list the fake ALDI beer in their

An agreement has been reached by LGT, the international private banking and asset management group owned by the Princely Family of Liechtenstein, to acquire abrdn's discretionary fund management business in the UK and Jersey for £140 million. The transaction involves approximately £6.1 b

Dundee-based insurtech company Broker Insights has appointed Dr Artur Niemczewski as a non-executive director. During his 25-year executive career in insurance, Dr Niemczewski has held several C-suite positions, including with AXA, Willis/WTW, Marsh, and Xchanging/DXC.