Mergers & Acquisitions

McGill’s Buses have now completed their acquisition of First Scotland East and vowed that local management will be empowered to make decisions for local services serving local people. The deal was announced earlier in September and has now been officially completed. McGill’s Group has ta

Scottish independent pharmacy operator Eastwood Pharmacy Group has acquired a new store in Airdrie thanks to a £5.7 million funding package from HSBC UK. The Glasgow-based firm is expanding after it used the funding to acquire McNish Pharmacy in Caldercruix, Airdrie, which has been part of the

Perth-based Balhousie Care Group has been bought by international health care firm AcalisCare in a multi-million-pound deal.

Gilson Gray Financial Management (GGFM) has acquired North Berwick-based Wallace Financial Planning in a seven-figure deal. The acquisition is the first step in the growth strategy of the financial services arm of legal firm Gilson Gray. The deal and increases GGFM's assets under management (AU

Opulus Financial has acquired Glasgow-based accountancy firm, Nicolson Accountancy, representing the largest acquisition since launching as a CFO solutions business at the end of last year.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided to impose a £306 million requirement on a takeover deal between Canadian software firm Dye and Durham (D&D) and Link Group. The decision follows announcements by Link Group to the Australian Securities Exchange and D&D to the Toron

New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown a recent slowdown in monthly mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, as domestic M&A deals were valued at £2.9 billion for Q2 2022 - £0.9bn less than Q1 (£3.9bn). Data suggests M&A activity has been

Lindsays has today announced a merger with Edinburgh-based legal practice Hadden Rankin.  The merger takes effect on 28th October 2019 and will see all Hadden Rankin staff transfer to Lindsays, with no redundancies. Hadden Rankin’s founding partners - Ross Hadden and Dot Rankin - will bec

Glasgow law firms Hill Brown and Miller Samuel are joining forces to create one of the city’s largest independent practices. The merger is the latest in a long series of mergers and takeovers since the crash of 2008 and reflects the continuing restructuring of the Scottish legal sector.