Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised high-street retailer Ann Summers on the opening of a new store in Glasgow. The new shop is located within Buchanan Galleries and becomes the retail giant's third city centre store. The WBD team was led by partner Nikki Powell and managing associate Clare Lamon
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Macdonald Henderson has advised Opulus in joining forces with Wylie & Bisset and on a £10 million growth capital facility to support further expansion plans of the enlarged group provided by SME Capital. Macdonald Henderson’s advisory team was led by David Beveridge and Ryan Macready
The business team at Blackadders has helped steer through the sale of the online activity booking site, ClassForKids. ClassForKids, the Glasgow-based site which is used by more than 3,000 kids’ activity clubs to help parents and owners save time and money, has been sold to The Access Group, on
TLT has advised Santander UK on its multi-million pound funding to global clean energy enterprise, TagEnergy. The funding supports the construction and operation of two landmark battery storage facilities: the 49.9MW/100MWh Roaring Hill development in Fife, Scotland; and the 49MW/98MWH Jamesfield de
Burges Salmon has advised First Bus, a division of transport group FirstGroup plc, on the acquisition of Essex bus company Ensign Bus Company Limited (Ensignbus). Aberdeen-headquartered FirstGroup is the second largest regional bus operator in the UK, serving two-thirds of the UK’s 15 largest
Macdonald Henderson has advised electric heating specialist The Electric Heating Company (EHC) on a £3.8m investment by Foresight Group, with plans to launch a range of air source heat pumps to encourage people to decarbonise their homes.
CMS has advised HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH (HIMA) on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Sella Limited and its subsidiaries, including Sella Controls (Sella), from the company’s management shareholders. Headquartered in Bruehl, Germany, HIMA is a provider of safety-related au
Weightmans’ corporate team in Glasgow advised on M&A deals in 2022 with a value of £69.6m. The Glasgow team, led by Claire McCracken, advised on 17 acquisitions in 2022. Notable deals in the space included advising national dental group Dentex Healthcare on a series of acquisitions,
Renewable energy experts from Harper Macleod have now advised on projects generating more than half of Scotland’s renewable electricity. According to the latest statistics from industry body Scottish Renewables, Scotland’s total installed capacity of renewable electricity is just over 12
TLT has advised global private asset management firm Capital Dynamics on the sale of a 27.5MW operational onshore wind portfolio consisting of three assets located in Fife, County Durham and Bedfordshire. The sale formed part of Capital Dynamics’ realisation of Capital Dynamics Clean Energy an
Shepherd and Wedderburn acted for Geoffrey Purcell in the sale of his Aberdeen based company, Kilkee Financial Services Limited, to AAB. Since Kilkee’s formation in 2002 it has matured to become a well-established firm in Aberdeen, catering to the financial needs of individuals and busin
MBM Commercial has advised Fitabeo Therapeutics on its successful spin out.
Burges Salmon has advised Blackfinch Property (Blackfinch) on a £4.4 million loan to fund the acquisition and restoration of a large area of land in Dumfries and Galloway.
BTO’s corporate team acted in the sale of Dunfermline-based family business Scott Group (Scott Pallets) to BSW Group, part of the Binderholz Group, a global sawmilling group with operations in Austria, Germany, Finland and the USA, and headquartered in Earlston, Scotland. BSW Timber is the lar
Burges Salmon has advised the shareholders of Regular Music on their partial sale to German promoter, venue operator and ticketing conglomerate Deutsche Entertainment AG (DEAG). The deal, through DEAG’s UK subsidiary Kilimanjaro Group, sees DEAG continue to increase its international promoter