Deal flows deliver 20% increase in profits for Shepherd and Wedderburn
A slew of high-profile deals has helped one of Scotland’s leading legal firms turn in a healthy 20 per cent rise in profits. Shepherd and Wedderburn has reported a 10...
Boutique advisory firm – set up by Scots – sold to Dublin’s CubeMatch
A boutique professional services firm – founded by two Scots and based in Hatton Garden in London – has been bought by the global change and transformation consultancy, CubeMatch for...
M&A optimism survives market uncertainty
Tariff threat causes slowdown at larger end of market but smaller deals are continuing Hopes that a new administration in the White House would spark a wave of merger and...
Finlayson puts spotlight on £100m innovation fund
Panellists candid on national challenges and imperatives of ensuring Scotland’s economic growth The DealMakers’ Breakfast at the Royal Society of Edinburgh in April provoked sparkling debate and earnest discussion with...
Net zero finance faces fierce competition for global capital
While Scotland’s onshore wind capacity needs to double every year for the next few years, we need to treble offshore wind investment, says Jimmy Williamson, a Director of Net Zero...
Miracle of globalisation sowed seeds of today’s income challenges, says financier
Scottish financier and former global capital markets specialist Angus Macpherson — speaking in a personal capacity — delivered an eloquent introduction and explanation which calmed nerves despite the turmoil in...
Scotland needs to build over 25,000 homes a year to up its game
Jane Wood, the Chief Executive of Homes for Scotland, reminded The Business audience that housing — in all its tenures — is fundamental to how we function as a society....
Scotland ‘must do better’ at maintaining existing building stock, says SFT chief
We must get much better in Scotland at looking after existing building stock, rather than building ‘shiny new things’, said Peter Reekie, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Futures Trust,...
Scotland’s deals and dealmakers of 2024 under the microscope
Throughout Scotland’s deals and dealmakers, brilliant ideas, innovation and human endeavour continue to be rewarded in a steady flow of business transactions. Our comprehensive list looks at the deal instigators,...
Economic growth? Definitely. But not at any cost to our planet
The mantra of Chancellor Rachel Reeves to ‘invest, invest, invest’ in her first Budget and the imperatives of sustainable economic growth are a definite rallying call for Scottish business entering...