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Andrew Bateman, Sarah Deas & Karen Pickering With 16,000 employers in Scotland looking to transfer ownership in the next five years, Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) is urging business owners to explore employee ownership as a viable succession route as it celebrated EO (Employee Ownershi

International law firm Pinsent Masons, which employs 550 people in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen has today announced details of its unaudited financial results for 2015-16. The firm achieved global turnover of £382.3m. This represents 5.5% revenue growth on the previous year’s £362m and cumula

Brodies LLP has become the latest Scottish firm to report positive results as the economic recovery, now threatened by Brexit, takes hold. The firm reports that in its financial year to 30 April 2016 revenues grew by 12.4 per cent to £65.1 million.

Annette Barnes with David McNeil and Alison Mitchell. Bank of Scotland has become the first Scottish bank to sign the Digital Participation Charter.

James Anderson The £3.6 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has won overwhelming shareholder approval to invest up to a quarter of its assets in private, unlisted companies.

Jordan Stodart Jordan Stodart is co-founder of Orca Money

Ross Marshall, Phil Charles and Craig Cavin. KPMG is targeting growth in its enterprise team in Scotland with two director appointments.

Jamie Partridge, Graeme Jones, CEO of SFE, and Kent Mackenzie Scotland’s burgeoning financial technology (FinTech) scene is to be the focus of a new strategic partnership between business advisory firm Deloitte and industry body Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE).

Donald McNaught A leading figure within Scotland’s accountancy profession has warned that the industry could be about to enter an insolvency crisis as more than half of specialist practitioners north of the border prepare to retire.

The centres of Scotland’s economic growth have begun to shift as Aberdeen continues its decline and areas such as Perth and Kinross begin an ascent, according to a new report. The research conducted by Mackay Consultants has forecast annual growth of 2 per cent in Perthshire through to 2018, on a

Glasgow Stock Exchange. Buchnan Street, Glasgow. (now the Urban Outfitters store). Scotland could be set to get its first independent stock exchange in 40 years.

Individual investors have lost tens of thousands of pounds already this year as a result of scams involving phantom stocks and shares, precious jewels and fine wines. The figures come as a result of the Citizen’s Advice Bureau’s analysis of 5,000 scams reported to it from across the UK between J

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has warned that businesses undertaking some commercial transactions will face unnecessary uncertainty because of a lack of clarity about the breadth of a new anti-avoidance tax rule. The Finance Bill 2016 introduces a new targeted anti-avoidance rule (TAAR)

Pat Denzler, Master of The Merchant Company welcomes Sir Charles Fraser as an Honorary Member. (Steven Donald Photography) Eminent retired Scottish businessman Sir Charles Fraser has been installed as an honorary member of The Merchant Company, Scotland’s pre-eminent livery company.

Frank Morton Aberdeen-based Anderson Anderson & Brown Wealth Limited (AAB Wealth) has announced the appointment of Frank Morton as director of wealth services.