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UK infrastructure investor John Laing is set to be snapped up by private equity giant KKR in a £2 billion takeover deal. Under the terms of the bid, which has been accepted by John Laing’s board of directors, shareholders will receive 403p per share in cash, a premium of 27 per cent to t

Scotland’s first independent craft brewery, Broughton Ales, is seeking a seven-figure investment to help boost its growth plans.

Scottish Enterprise has unveiled ambitious new plans to accelerate the country’s green economic recovery. The agency, which has been central to getting emergency support to Scottish businesses during the pandemic, is to spend £400 million over the next year on activities to safeguard and

Clyde Munro Dental Group has become the first to own more than 50 practices in Scotland alone - and is vowing to continue its unrelenting pace of growth. Having only been founded in 2015, Clyde Munro Dental Group, which is backed by Investec and Synova, has secured its latest addition, Mearns Dental

The lead singer of the Sex Pistols has been drawn into a High Court battle with his former bandmates over a new TV show about their career. John Lydon, also known as Johnny Rotten, has pulled out of the six-part miniseries to be directed by Oscar winner Danny Boyle.

Accountancy firm Chiene + Tait (C+T) has promoted Edinburgh-based partner Michelle Fallon to head of private client tax.  Ms Fallon will lead the 20-strong team, while her colleague Alan Dean has been promoted to the role of director.

Chartered accountancy firm JRW has appointed Joanne Gibson as its sixth partner with the firm. Ms Gibson joins current partners Kevin Crowford, Alister Biggar, Kevin Ferguson, Brona MacDougall and David Clarkson.

More Scottish firms see increased staff members working at home as a “permanent business model” now than at any other time during the pandemic, according to Glasgow-based MCC Accountants. In a government study of more than 1,000 companies, nearly one in five now say employees won&rs

Alistair McAlinden, managing director and head of the hospitality and leisure sector team for Interpath Advisory in Scotland discusses how operators across the hospitality sector in Scotland should beware of financial pitfalls as they fully reopen. With Scottish pubs and restaurants welcoming c

The number of fines issued to auditors by the accountancy watchdog has almost tripled in the last year as the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) seeks to stamp out poor practices ahead of a government consultation on reforming the scandal-hit industry. The FRC distributed £25 million in fines i

Phil Anderson, founder of Phil Anderson Financial Services, discusses the rising popularity of ESG investment We’re all doing our bit nowadays to conserve our environment and look out for our fellow human beings, on both a local and a global stage. Carrying re-usable bags, ditching the aerosol

Nationwide Building Society has seen its profits almost double to £823 million throughout the Covid-19 pandemic as its customers saved an extra £10 billion over the last year. The lender, which is the UK's biggest building society, revealed a huge rise in deposits as customers chose to s

Core-Asset Consulting, recruitment specialists for Scotland's financial services sector, has outlined the top seven "trending" career paths for those looking to enter work or to retrain in. Based on statistics and industry insights from its annual salary guide, the firm has pinpointed five areas tha

Nationwide Building Society, the UK’s second-largest mortgage lender, has predicted that house prices will continue to rise this year beyond the end of the stamp duty holiday.

Almost 64,000 staff at HMRC will be allowed to work from home at least two days a week from next month, despite UK Government aims to get workers back into offices in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.