Legal Review 2024: Scotland’s legal firms continue to make indelible mark on the wider world
The lawyers and their legal associates who represent the interests of companies, firms and individuals in Scotland are among the best in the world. We should all be grateful for...
Legal Review 2024: Did the Budget give a green light to clean energy action?
With the dust settling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget, which she claimed would help deliver the government’s mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, the energy sector has welcomed...
Legal Review 2024: Devils, advocates and the ongoing fight to defend the rule of law
Asked about the issues currently exercising the minds of the legal profession, Roddy Dunlop, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, does not have to think long. “The unprecedented weight of...
How the nation is planning to tax and spend: Scotland’s budget for 2025- 2026 in brief
A quick look at the Scottish budget delivered by Shona Robison, the finance secretary, on 4th December 2024 The actual windfall from Scotland’s offshore wind bonanza – worth...
Forth Ports appoint a new financial chief
Stuart MacGregor – the former head of North-East construction company Stewart Milne – has been appointed chief financial officer of Forth Ports Ld. He also joins the port group’s main...
Food and drink deals still looking pretty tasty
Drinks companies, food service companies and makers of fine chocolate and even tofu have all been munched up in a flurry of M&A activity in the summer of 2024. The...
Hotel that’s redefining luxury in Edinburgh’s historic Old Town
Following a £10 million refurbishment, the former Holyrood Hotel has relaunched as the Edinburgh Marriott Hotel Holyrood, redefining luxury in Edinburgh’s historic Old Town. Rebranded in February 2024, this stunning...
Providing children with building blocks for life
Is the High School of Dundee on your radar? You might be surprised by what we can offer. Of all the things you could invest in, what could be better...
Reason to rejoice – but an existential threat remains
From a symbolic perspective, GB Energy being headquartered in Aberdeen will instil confidence in the region’s energy industry. The Granite City has unrivalled energy expertise with an abundance of highly...
Office politics come into play in workplace transformation
There is an overwhelming consensus that the workplace – and hence our cities – have no alternative but to confront the ‘new normal.’ What exactly that might be is much...