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Merger and acquisition activity in the past 12 months has been in rude health, fuelled to a great extent by the ready availability of well-priced debt and a wide range of potential purchasers, writes Rosalie Chadwick. The Private Equity (PE) funds are keen to deploy capital, but there is a mismatch

The independent review on the impact of policing on affected communities in Scotland during the miners’ strike, led by John Scott QC, has announced details of events which will be held across Scotland to hear from those directly affected by the dispute. These engagement events are being held b

Glasgow Caledonian Law Clinic has won the Public Services Award at the Evening Times Glasgow Community Champion Awards. The clinic was set up in March 2014 by law lecturer Claire McFadzean and is a student-led and student-run initiative designed to promote access to justice in th

Burges Salmon has announced that it has secured leased office space at Atria One in Edinburgh’s Exchange business district, next door to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. It is leasing 6,229 sq ft of office space on the second floor of Atria One on a 10-year lease. Other

Former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, will be joining the University of Glasgow as a professor of children, law and religion. Born in Belfast, Professor McAleese is the eldest of nine children and grew up in Ardoyne, a sectarian flashpoint where she experienced first-hand the violence of

Inverness and Invergordon based Macleod & MacCallum has announced the appointment of Jenna Thomson as a director of the firm. Ms Thomson obtained her law degree from Glasgow University in 2006 and completed her traineeship with Macleod & MacCallum, before permanently joining the firm's

A literature review of the law surrounding death by dangerous driving has been published. Dr Rachel McPherson and Professor Cyrus Tata, from the Centre for Law, Crime & Justice at Strathclyde University, were commissioned by the Scottish Sentencing Council to carry out the review, which examines

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP has appointed three new property and infrastructure partners and a further eight specialist lawyers and paralegals to its property and infrastructure division, further expanding its market-leading clean energy and commercial property practices. Joanna

Andy Wightman and others asked the Court of Session to make a judgment that Article 50 can be revoked unilaterally and unconditionally by the UK Parliament. The Court of Session has now agreed to refer this question to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the only court that can decide this matter a

Inverness law firm Macleod & MacCallum Limited has announced its acquisition of Wilsons, solicitors, Invergordon, with effect from today. Macleod & MacCallum will retain the Invergordon office of Wilsons, providing it with a permanent Ross-shire base, and the current senior partner of W

The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) has introduced a new, simplified, complaint levy policy that will apply to complaints upheld or part upheld by a determination committee from today onwards. The complaint levy remains at £3,500, which was set in 2012 following consultation with t

BTO Solicitors LLP has announced the appointment of two new members of staff for its families and individuals and residential property teams. Solicitor Hilary Peppiette is one of Scotland’s first end of life doulas, making BTO the first Scottish law firm to offer such specialist counselli

Allan McDougall Solicitors has promoted Gordon Milligan to the position of associate. Mr Milligan specialises in personal injury law, with particular expertise in handling cases in respect of asbestos exposure and occupational hearing loss.

Thorntons has welcomed corporate solicitor Morgan Smith to its team in Dundee. Ms Smith advises both individual and business clients on a wide range of general corporate matters including: commercial contracts, corporate structures, business acquisitions and sales, shareholders and partnership agree