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Gordon King Gordon King of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors

1825, Standard Life’s wholly-owned financial planning business, has announced an agreement to acquire Jones Sheridan, with assets under advice of £350m. The Edinburgh-based insurance giant said the deal will establish 1825’s North West Regional Office with 30 employees including seven advisers

Mike Brown A ‘pillar of the North-east business community’ has been awarded the 'Lifetime Achievement Award 2016' at one of Aberdeen’s most prestigious annual business events.

Standard Life Investments has suspended trading in its UK property fund blaming "exceptional market circumstances" following the EU referendum result. The fund manager said the number of investors asking to withdraw their money had increased following the vote.

Ross McEwan The chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland has warned that the UK government's 73 per cent stake in the bank may not be returned to private hands for at least two more years as a result of the UK’s decision to leave the EU.

Edinburgh-based jobs are expected to be included among more than 600 redundancies at Lloyds Banking Group as the lender continues to scale back its branch network and workforce. According to reports, all affected employees work in information technology and back-office roles and are being told of th

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.