Blog Post Blog Post Employee Ownership – an alternative exit strategy? 23 June 2022 Neil McWilliam Corporate & Commercial Employee Ownership has the Scottish Government’s attention, accounts for just under 140 businesses in Scotland and is said to positively…
Blog Post Blog Post Selling your practice to a Corporate – is it for you? 1 May 2022 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare The bulk of the Thorntons Dental Team’s work relates to the sale and acquisition of dental practices. Over the course of 2021, we dealt…
Blog Post Blog Post Court of Appeal provides clarification on the interpretation of exclusion of liability clauses 22 April 2022 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial, Intellectual Property A recent decision of the Court of Appeal has provided clarification on the interpretation of exclusion clauses in commercial contracts.…
Blog Post Blog Post Choosing the right business structure for your new business. 21 April 2022 Hayley Blackman Corporate & Commercial The start-up ecosystem in Scotland has grown exponentially in recent years. The Businesses in Scotland 2019 report shows that, as of March…
Blog Post Blog Post Calorie Counting: Coming to a Restaurant Near You 19 April 2022 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial The Scottish Government’s consultation on proposals to force restaurants and other hospitality businesses to publish information about the…
Blog Post Blog Post Dental Practice - To Lease or Not To Lease 9 March 2022 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare Dental surgeries come in all shapes and sizes, from street level premises and practices on the upper floors of a tenement, to stand alone,…
Blog Post Blog Post Dental Practices Key Practice Documentation 1 February 2022 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare We act for all sort of practices, from sole practitioners to large practices which operate as partnerships or limited companies. All of…
Blog Post Blog Post Selling to Corporates – a Ready Made Market? 8 December 2021 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare Selling a dental practice is the culmination, in most cases, of a life’s work. A retiring dentist is likely to have built the practice up…
Blog Post Blog Post Business, Trade and Vaccination Status. 30 November 2021 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial, Employment While many manufacturing businesses have been able to operate effectively during the pandemic (albeit in many cases navigating supply chain…
Press Release Press Release Thorntons Solicitors Oversees £42 Million Fundraising Deal for Scottish Agritech Business IGS 5 November 2021 Alistair Lang Corporate & Commercial The Scottish agritech business, Intelligent Growth Solutions Limited (IGS), announced the conclusion of its most recent funding round on…
Blog Post Blog Post EU plans to reduce e-waste by standardising smartphone and tablet chargers 29 September 2021 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial, Intellectual Property There has been pressure for some time to try and standardise many types of common electronic devices like phone chargers. Last week,…
Blog Post Blog Post Selling your Dental Practice in Uncertain Times 18 September 2021 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare As most of you will know, the market for dental practices in Scotland has been strong for many years. There have been periods in the last…
Blog Post Blog Post Dental Partnerships and Shareholder Agreements 1 September 2021 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare When a practice is first set up, seldom is a great deal of thought given to the long term future of the practice. More often than not,…
Blog Post Blog Post Dental Practices – Getting onto the Practice Ladder 1 July 2021 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare Many dentists aspire to own their own practice. It isn’t of course for everyone, there are risks in being a practice owner, but if run…
Blog Post Blog Post Surgery Premises – Getting all your bricks in a row 1 May 2021 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare When we act for a seller or a buyer of a practice, in most cases the focus is primarily on the goodwill of the practice. There is a side…
Blog Post Blog Post Retirement and Dental Bodies Corporate 1 April 2021 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare We have looked in previous articles at the issues which practices need to consider when they operate as a limited company, known in the…
Blog Post Blog Post Are Virtual Operating Models Here to Stay? 30 March 2021 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial Like many other people, I’m just coming to the end of a full year working exclusively, or at least mainly, from home. One of the most…
Blog Post Blog Post Dental Practice Structure – To Be a Company (or not to be)? 15 February 2021 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare This is a subject which we come back to fairly regularly as dental lawyers. Practices decide that they wish to incorporate, in other words…
Webinar Webinar Corporate Webinar | The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement 4 February 2021 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial, Data Protection & GDPR In the last days of the Brexit transition period, the UK and EU finally agreed a trade deal – the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The…
Blog Post Blog Post Business Interruption Insurance: Good News for Small Businesses 18 January 2021 Pamela Muir Claims & Disputes, Coronavirus | Covid-19, Corporate & Commercial Many small businesses were forced to close as a result of the restrictions imposed on travel and trade in response to the COVID-19 outbreak…
Blog Post Blog Post COVID19 Support for Businesses: Update Following National Lockdown 6 January 2021 Pamela Muir Coronavirus | Covid-19, Corporate & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced a new grant package of £4.6 billion to support the hardest hit businesses through the new…