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Aberdeen-based investment firm Scott James & Associates (SJA) has acquired a fellow St James’s Place practice in Cruden Bay. The firm has acquired the business of Brian McAulay, following his decision to retire after spending seven years with the firm.

Jamie Gray, an expert in financial services law, has been appointed as a partner at Burness Paull. Mr Gray, who joins from Addleshaw Goddard, advises banks, investment firms, corporate finance and private equity houses, technology companies, platforms and trading facilities, payment services provide

Glasgow is at a tipping point as a lack of new office developments in the city centre could see ‘refurbishment’ rents outstrip rents on new-build in 2023 for first time in six years, to reach £36 per sq ft, according to Savills. With less than a year’s supply of new office ac

Aberdeen-based 3D scanning specialist Viewport3 has hailed 2021 as its most successful year since launching in 2017. With revenue from new customers alone exceeding £100,000, the company has moved into larger premises, and is currently recruiting additional team members to cope with ever-growi

The Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund (SMEEF) has received £500,000 from the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund to transform the health of Scotland’s coasts and seas. Now, NatureScot and partners are asking marine businesses and the larger industry to contri

Caledonian Marts Ltd, the Stirling-based livestock and specialist auction company, have raised £70,064 at a successful charity auction in support of the people of Ukraine. The auction, held simultaneously online and live at the Caledonian Mart, included a host of exciting unique and exciting l

Edinburgh-based sour beer producer Vault City Brewing has launched a core range for the first time and enlisted hundreds of independent bars nationwide to help spread the good word.

Big Four firm KPMG is set to be fined £14.4 million after a Financial Reporting Council (FRC) tribunal found that its auditors deliberately misled regulators during routine inspections of its audit of collapsed government contractor Carillion. The £14.4m fine for KPMG would be the second

Twenty-two businesses from the Highlands and Islands have started the latest Pathfinder Accelerator programme operated by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), which aims to put them on the fast track to success. The programme has been developed by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and is del

Yesterday, staff from Bank of Scotland-owner Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) held a demonstration outside the Group’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in a pay dispute with the bank. Unite the Union members are angry that the 2022 pay arrangement has left many low paid bank workers fearing for their ec

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has been appointed by Tom MacLennan, Iain Fraser and Chad Griffin of FRP Advisory, the joint administrators of Countesswells Development Limited (CDL), to market a substantial prime development site in Aberdeen formerly owned by CDL which went into administration at the

A baseball signed by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has sold at auction for more than $50,000.

London-headquartered KultraLab, a behavioural science and technology company, will open a new hub in Edinburgh after it received more than £2 million investment from Kelvin Capital and Scottish Enterprise in a move that will create up to 25 jobs.

Terra Firma will present a Private Client seminar at the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Thursday 16th June 2022. The seminar will feature talks by Philip Simpson QC on inheritance tax and Fergus Colquhoun on liferents.

BGF has today completed a £1.6 million investment in Aiber, a Scottish med-tech firm, headquartered in Inverness. This completes a £2m fundraising round, with existing investors Scottish Enterprise and Equity Gap also participating.