Pinsent Masons

Jason Collins looks at efforts to ensure tech giants pay their taxes.HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) believes that US-based multinational businesses may have underpaid £4.6 billion of UK tax last year, up 35 per cent from £3.4bn in 2017.Figures obtained by Pinsent Masons show that HMRC w

Pinsent Masons has announced that four Scottish lawyers will be promoted to legal directors. Glasgow-based Susannah Donaldson, Elaine MacGregor and Katherine Metcalfe and Edinburgh colleague Pamela Gilmour make the step up from senior associate level.

A 50-strong team from legal firm Pinsent Masons’ Glasgow office raised approximately £11,000 on the Royal Bank of Scotland Kiltwalk. Lawyers and support staff were among 13,0000 Kiltwalkers who set off on a 23-mile trek from Glasgow Green and raised a cumulative £3.5 million which

Euan Smith, partner and corporate immigration specialist at Pinsent Masons, writes on a new Scottish-German initiative backed by the firm. The first Scottish-German Business Exchange Conference (SGBEC) was attended by high-profile business executives, civil servants and politicians and laid the foun

Pinsent Masons has announced the appointment of Claire Scott as legal director in the international law firm's Aberdeen office. Ms Scott is widely respected in the north east and has years of experience advising international clients in the oil and gas, shipping and aviation industries.

Tom Stocker contrasts English DPAs and the Scottish civil settlement regime in the context of a parliamentary inquiry into bribery legislation, at which he himself gave evidence. The UK's 2010 Bribery Act has created "an international gold standard for anti-bribery and corruption legislation",

Pinsent Masons has been named the most inclusive employer in the UK by lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall in its Top 100 Employers list for 2019.

Pinsent Masons has been announced as Scotland's Firm of the Year by Legal 500 UK. The firm, which has offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen and employs an estimated 500 lawyers and support staff in Scotland, was recognised for the strength of its individual specialists and practice teams a

Oil and gas lawyer Martin Ewan has been appointed president of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. The society promotes legal professional expertise in Aberdeen and the north east and its origins can be traced back to the 16th century. Its members include lawyers, members of the judiciary, su