Blog Post Blog Post What a year! Please don’t let the Grinch steal Christmas Gifts too! 25 November 2020 Pamela Muir Corporate & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring What a year! All of us have been living under unprecedented restrictions on our lives this year, missing loved ones and all the usual…
Webinar Webinar Corporate Webinar | Insolvency, Commercial Contracts and Supply Chain 1 September 2020 Pamela Muir Corporate & Commercial Today’s business leaders are faced with overwhelming and competing challenges as we continue to navigate the impacts of the Coronavirus…
Blog Post Blog Post Dentists | Selling a Practice Post-Pandemic 19 August 2020 Michael Royden Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare The Coronavirus pandemic has dominated the news over the course of this year. As we start to come out of lockdown, there are fears of a…
Blog Post Blog Post New Law can Force Suppliers to Continue Supplying Insolvent Companies. 3 July 2020 Pamela Muir Claims & Disputes, Corporate & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 came into force on 26th June 2020 and amongst other changes, it now prevents suppliers…
Blog Post Blog Post Coronavirus “Bounce Back” Loan Scheme 28 April 2020 Pamela Muir Coronavirus | Covid-19, Corporate & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring In response to criticism from businesses that the administration of the CBILS scheme has been too slow to meet their urgent need for…
Blog Post Blog Post Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS): Changes and Updates 3 April 2020 Pamela Muir Coronavirus | Covid-19, Corporate & Commercial Extended Support for SMEs The Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans, yesterday, to revise the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan…
Blog Post Blog Post Goodbye Wrongful Trading and Welcome to the UK, Chapter 11? 30 March 2020 Pamela Muir Coronavirus | Covid-19, Corporate & Commercial On 28 March 2020, Business Secretary Alok Sharma announced new insolvency measures to help businesses pull through the coronavirus crisis.…
Blog Post Blog Post Coronavirus: UK Government support for the Self-Employed 27 March 2020 Pamela Muir Coronavirus | Covid-19, Corporate & Commercial On 26 March the Chancellor announced his plan to help self-employed individuals who are at risk of losing their livelihoods due to…
Blog Post Blog Post Coronavirus: UK Government Support for SMEs 24 March 2020 Pamela Muir Coronavirus | Covid-19, Corporate & Commercial The Chancellor and the Scottish Government have introduced a number of measures to support SMEs amid the disruption caused by COVID-19.…
Blog Post Blog Post University Spin-outs play role in Scotland's economic growth 25 February 2020 Robbie Francis Corporate & Commercial, Education In late 2019, Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal of the University of Glasgow, published a report on industry engagement and the…
Blog Post Blog Post Exit Day: What Happens Next for Data Protection? 31 January 2020 Loretta Maxfield Corporate & Commercial, Data Protection & GDPR, Intellectual Property Whether you sit in the pro-Brexit camp or in the Remain camp, Exit Day is here. We must now all accept that the UK will leave the EU at…
Blog Post Blog Post Mothercare; More misery for the UK High Street 7 November 2019 Pamela Muir Corporate & Commercial Following on from my recent article on the collapse of Watt Brothers and Bonmarche, it is a great shame to now have to report on the…
Blog Post Blog Post Alexa – can I stay in Gourock 17 October 2019 Aimee Gibbons Corporate & Commercial, Property Amazon faces eviction from its Gourock “fulfilment centre” after having ignored a notice to quit from its landlord, M7 Real Estate…
Blog Post Blog Post Thomas Cook – A Very Bumpy Landing 24 September 2019 Pamela Muir Corporate & Commercial What Has Gone Wrong? On the surface, it is not hard to see what may have gone wrong over the past 8 years since the last restructuring of…
Blog Post Blog Post Brexit and Business Continuity: is there such a thing? 18 September 2019 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial When it comes to Brexit, no one seems to know what tomorrow will bring - particularly in the event of no deal scenario. With Boris…
Blog Post Blog Post The Growing Business of Franchising 23 May 2019 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial, Intellectual Property Franchising is a common way of scaling a business quickly. The world’s largest franchises are household names: McDonald’s, Subway,…
Blog Post Blog Post The Scottish Government's GP Sustainability Fund. 5 April 2019 Ewan Miller Corporate & Commercial, Healthcare In November 2017 the Scottish Government announced that it would create the GP Sustainability Fund. Decisions for the first round of…
Blog Post Blog Post Is tourism really everyone’s business? 22 March 2019 Aimee Gibbons Corporate & Commercial, Property Tourism is a key contributor to Scotland’s economy and if statistics are to be believed, we now have more tourists visiting our Country…
Blog Post Blog Post What does the Non Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill mean for you? 15 March 2019 Corporate & Commercial, Property The Scottish Government is planning to introduce the Non Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill to the Scottish parliament in the coming weeks, and…
Blog Post Blog Post The Age of the Digital Revolution 28 January 2019 Alistair Lang Corporate & Commercial In reading last week that Netflix had added another 9 million subscribers to its service in the last quarter I paused to reflect; not so…
Blog Post Blog Post Phrases used in contract negotiations and what they mean. 5 September 2018 Liam McMonagle Corporate & Commercial, Intellectual Property Following my blog last week - What to look out for in contract negotiations, I have some further reflections on points that are often…