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Levelling the playing field : achieving fair business banking

On Thursday 27th April 2017, the Dispute Resolution Team at MBM Commercial held the third in their series of annual conferences. Building on the success of the previous two, which looked at the changing banking landscape, and at particular financial challenges for entrepreneurial businesses, this year’s conference theme addressed the need to level the playing field in terms of achieving fair business banking.The conference looked at both the worst and the best in fair business banking. If there’s a spectrum of bank behaviour, our first speaker, from Nikki Turner, had definitely experienced the worst, as one of the victims of the...
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Munich comes to Edinburgh

MBM were delighted to support a technology trade delegation from Bavaria when it arrived in Edinburgh, along with the first signs of Spring. Scottish Minister Wheelhouse and a Scottish trade delegation had been invited to Munich last October by the Bavarian Government - unfortunately just after Oktoberfest had ended! Michael Arnott, head of MBM's London office and fluent German speaker, joined the Scottish delegation in October and was delighted to welcome them back to Edinburgh for the return match.MBM hosted a networking event and series of short talks for the technology start-ups who had come over with the Bavarian delegation. MBM...
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Investors with benefits

I have in the past wondered why “corporate venturing” has never appeared to be as prevalent in the UK as it might be. One might expect equity investment by corporate trading businesses for financial returns and strategic benefits to be a core part of the investment ecology but this hasn’t seemed to be the case.Looking at the impact of corporate venturing historically, some detractors may have grounds for scepticism and can point to mixed, if not volatile, results. Some may also consider corporate investors to be risk adverse and intolerant of failure but there is an emerging generation of corporates who understand...
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The gig economy and employment status

We are often told by economists and journalists that we live in a gig economy: a labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term or free-lance contracts as opposed to permanent jobs. There has also been a lot in the Press recently about companies such as Uber and Deliveroo, who have sought to classify their workforce as self-employed, rather than employed, in order to take advantage of transient working practices and limited employment rights. Indeed, a Work and Pensions Committee has warned that “unscrupulous” employers are in a position to exploit low paid and low skilled workers. The Committee has said that...
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MBM Commercial act for Clients in Connection with Whisky Distillery Development in Edinburgh

Jane Ramsay and Jennifer Noble are delighted to have acted for clients -  Muckle Brig Limited -  in connection with their proposed whisky distillery development at Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh. You can read more in The Scotman article here. 
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