Opinion

Mark Brown, audit, accounts & business assurance partner at Aberdeen chartered accountancy firm Meston Reid & Co, details why companies need to be focusing now on shaping a strategic approach as economic activity is begins to increase and business confidence is slowly recovering. Busine

As Scottish telecoms technology company Calnex Solutions today confirmed its £42m listing on London’s AIM market, Burness Paull's Chris Gotts, lead legal adviser on the Calnex IPO, discusses why more growing businesses in Scotland should follow suit.  Traditionally businesses i

Martin McKay, executive director of regeneration at Clyde Gateway, discusses the economic opportunities for regeneration areas like Clyde Gateway where resilience can be built in.  I don’t believe the pandemic will lead to the demise of the office. Companies are diverse and need workplace

Blair Nimmo, head of restructuring at KPMG in Scotland, discusses the landlord-occupier tensions during the coronavirus pandemic. Tensions between commercial landlords and their financially stressed tenants continue to grow, and how landlords respond will be critical to the recovery not only of

Gillian Maclellan, partner at international law firm CMS, discusses the use of tracking technology to monitor employees working from home.  As employers across the UK now look at another sustained period of their workforce working from home, we are hearing tales of some using tracking technolog

Jill Glen, director of Dunedin Advisory, highlights the long term impact for those struggling with debt at this time and outlines options which may help individuals plan ahead and remove uncertainty. Current financial help

Victoria Leslie, partner at Ledingham Chalmers and Laila Kennedy, legal executive (litigation), discuss how business interruption claims are a vital step forward for firms who paid for enhanced business interruption insurance, but had their claims rejected. The Association of British Insur

As we move past the six-month mark with COVID-19 and with further business restriction pending, our sister publication Scottish Legal News asked Douglas Mill, who in the last 12 years has consulted with over 130 firms throughout the country, how things were going for High Street solicitors and how h

Murray Jack, partner at Addleshaw Goddard, discusses how the coronavirus crisis could drive Scottish businesses to embrace private equity on a larger scale. Despite Scotland being home to a number of prominent private equity (PE) house the country has witnessed an element of resistance among some bu

Peter Shand explores the latest trend of the super-wealthy setting up finance and legal offices to deal with their affairs. Scotland’s financial ecosystem is changing and one of the latest drivers could be the increase in the number of official ‘family offices’ being set up.

David Findlay, associate for valuations at Knight Frank Glasgow, discusses the lifting of material uncertainty clauses from commercial property. Over the past couple of decades, the property sector has grown accustomed to dealing with uncertainty: the dotcom bubble popped at the turn of the millenni

Kirsty Ross, head of KPMG’s family business team in Scotland, discusses the resilience of family businesses and how firms can use their generational experience to ride out the COVID-19 storm. For Scotland’s family business community, 2020 will be a year to forget. A global pandemic, lock

To mark the end of Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight, Susan Dunlop shares a few thoughts on the prospects for the industry in the coming months with uncertainty dominating. For many of Scotland’s food and drink suppliers, producers and retailers, the last six months have been arguably the mo

Adam Hardie, head of food and drink at Johnston Carmichael, considers the challenges as the food and drink sector returns to "normal". While the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has proved devastating for many sectors, small, local food and drink suppliers have been on the right side of an unpreceden

Jonathan Smith, Aberdeen-based business coach and facilitator at The Alternative Board, discusses the importance of having engaged employees as the UK recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.  As a new normal emerges in the business world, having engaged employees matters now more than ever