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Corporate Governance for Unlisted Companies
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Disclaiming Demystified
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Dynamic Innovation
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Early Conciliation: Easy and Effective Settlement?
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Emergency Changes to UK Insolvency Rules
EMI Options and Furloughed Employees
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Employment Law - Inaccurate References
Employment Law Changes in 2024
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Employment Question of the Month: Maternity Rights
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Employment Tribunal Fees
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Employment Tribunal Fees: The Unintended Consequences
Employment – Positives and pitfalls of new working practices
End of self-isolation rules – Impact on businesses in the UK
Engage – Invest – Exploit
Entrepreneurial Impact
Entrepreneurship Tips from PJ Darling of Spark Energy [Event Report]
Equal Rights for Surrogacy Families: The Legal Challenge
ESG and shareholder claims
Establishing an Environmental Policy - Benefits all round
Event Report: Managing Staff Performance Seminar
Excessive company valuations
Extension of Furlough Scheme
External Investment Hurdles - And How To Clear Them
Facebook: The Risks For Employers When Disciplining Employees
Facial Recognition Technology
False Starts in Trade Mark Infringement
FAQs: End of Furlough, Vaccinations and Returning to the Office
Fattism – a new kind of discrimination?
FCA ‘Bans’ Binance: Protection for credit card users?
Financial Product Liability: The "Tobacco Moment"
Financing High Growth Companies
Financing New Ventures – An Entrepreneurs Guide to Business Angel Investment
Finding a common framework for operational resilience and wind down planning
Finding Funding: Report from WeDo Scotland Event
Finding the Right Property for the Future
Fines for Data Protection breach on the rise
Fintechs: Do you understand your regulatory status?
Five Common Mistakes When Sharing Your Confidential Information and How to Avoid Them
Five Ingredients for Extreme Startup Success
Five Tips for New Incoming Trainee Solicitors (+ a bonus)
Fixed Fee Litigation - Six months on
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Flexible Working and Shared Parental Leave: Implications for Employers
Flexible Working Arrangements - Considerations
Flexible Working – Be Prepared for the Changes
Form without the Function
Free eBook: Equity - A Resource For Startups
Free WIFI - 2016 or 1984?
Fright Night for Startups
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Fund Managers Must Support our Tech Start-Ups
Funders’ Forebode
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Furlough Leave and the Job Retention Scheme
Furlough Scheme Extended until March 2021
Further Extension of Furlough Scheme
Further press coverage on Carlyle Case
Future Energy Policy: What Can Green Entrepreneurs Expect? [Event Report]
Future Fund
Future Fund Updates
Future Fund – What companies and investors need to know
Future Fund: Breakthrough
GDPR and Cross Border Transfers of Data
GDPR and Data Portability
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GDPR News - ICO issues further guidance on meaning on Documentation requirement in GDPR
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GDPR News 15/5/18
GDPR News 23/5/18
GDPR News 4/4/18
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Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Where do we go from here?
Genetic and medical record data-commodities to be monetized?
Get Wise, Get Organised
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Getting ready for a future sale or acquisition
Getting the Most Out of Homeworking
Global Ambition: 10 Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Going Stateside: Commercial Issues UK Companies Need to Consider in the US
Good Leaver, Bad Leaver – What’s Market?
Google software disputes and privacy: one step forward two back.
Government is Listening!
Green Energy Seminar Report: Offering Expertise, Optimising Opportunities
Green Leases: Gone for Good?
Groundless threats of IP infringement - a threat to common sense?
Group Litigation Now Happening in Scotland
Grow Big or Go Home
Halloween Event To Help Startups Get Started
Hannah Roche – Head of Employment
Happy Staff, Better Business
Has a cheque been cancelled? What are your rights
Have You Ever Read Your Articles?
Heads you lose!
Health and Safety: Update on the Penalties for Non-Compliance
Helping the BBAA with 'Be An Angel'
Herald Scotland News Article: MPs Challenge Government on Why an FCA Inquiry into Banking has been Dropped
Herald Scotland News Article: MPs Challenge Government on Why an FCA Inquiry into Banking has been Dropped
High Growth Firms
Hiring Your First Employee
Historic Protections for Modern Tenants
HMRC Investigations – The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – Furlough Payments
Holiday Entitlement/Pay Update
Holiday Headaches for Employers
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Hope on the Horizon for Fraud Victims?
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How good is your Board of Directors?
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How To Find A Good Management Team
How to make an M&A warranty claim
How to Make my Contract More Appealing to US Parties
How to Raise Equity Investment During an Economic Crisis
How To Startup For Success
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Important Consultation on the Use of Financial Services by SMEs
Importing Capital
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Interest rate swaps - Grant Estates update
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Investment in Scottish Life Sciences: A Brave New World?
Investment: The Challenges of Managing Investor Syndication as Part Of Scale-Up Deals
Investor Preferences
IP100 Event: October 2016
Is God Redundant?
Is offering enhanced maternity leave but not offering enhanced shared parental leave discriminatory?
It is a new world under GDPR
It’s payback time – When a Bounce Back Loan becomes a personal liability
Jointly Owned Intellectual Property: How to Live in “Harmony”
Just forget about me... The Right to Erasure
Keeping personal data secure
Kelvin Capital Business Angel Syndicate Re-launched
Landlords and Tenants – It’s good to talk!
Las Vegas - Not Just For Elvis Impersonators
Last minute change to Cookie law guidance
Launch of the new improved Business Forum Scotland
Law Society Fixed-Fee Guidance
Lawyers offering ‘Restitution’ for small businesses suing their banks
Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon
LBTT Rates Announced
LBTT: The Scottish Alternative to Stamp Duty Land Tax
LEADING THE WORLD IN ANGELIC TIMES
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Leases and LBTT
Legal Expertise for International Expansion
Lessons from disputing a dispute resolution clause…
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Lifting the lid on the Patent Box
Limited Partnerships – Fund Friendly Proposals
Litigation Advisory Firm of the Year in Scotland
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National Security and Investment Act 2021
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Negotiating an Investment Term Sheet
Networking for Startups: The Five W's
New Appointments in the Intellectual Property Team
New Chair of Judges, New Sponsors, More Prizes for Bioquarter Competition
New Challenges, Same Responsibilities: Directors' Duties in the age of COVID-19
New Copyright Law For Orphan Works - Was ERRA Passed In Error?
New Data Privacy Framework Announced to Facilitate Data Transfer Between the US and EU
New FCA Measures for Customers Struggling with Repayments
New Holistic HR Training Packages
New Incentives for Pharmaceuticals in the UK, First Gene Therapy Approved
New Opportunities
New Protections for Commercial Tenants in the Coronavirus Outbreak
New Transparency Rules to Keep Companies Squeaky Clean
New Year, New TUPE
New “Spitting Image” Right in Copyright Law Shake Up
News and Press Coverage
No Drama Allowed: NDAs / Non-Disclosure Agreements
No Fault Dismissals
No Laughing Matter-National Courts Get to Rule on the Parody Exemption
No little help for Tesco with Clubcard trade mark
No Longer Welcome- Securities and the Sasine Register
No Purple Reign for Cadbury: Nestlé wins U.K. Court of Appeal Ruling in Trade Mark Case
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: The Unexpected Impact of Covid 19 on Contractual Arrangements
Non-executives – what IS the tax position?
North Sea Oil – how much is left?
Not every mis-sold loan results in the customer’s business failing – an overview of the recent Court of Session decision in the case of John Glare v Clydesdale Bank Plc.
Not So Anonymous - Genetic Data Raises Privacy Concerns
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Choosing the right investment mechanism for early-stage companies
Novation v Assignment
Oh! - Modified Rapture
Online Fraud - When there's blame to go around
Online fraud – when is a bank to blame? Differing approaches north and south of the border.
Open to change: Pharma R+D moves forward
Our Dispute Resolution Team score a major success defending a Personal Guarantee claim
Our New Intellectual Property Consultancy Service
Party Pitfalls - Party Pooper or Responsible Employer?
Patent Box Features on YouTube
Patent Box in Brief
Patently stupid? The debate over gene patenting continues
Patient Capital Review – How do we fund our companies of tomorrow?
Payment in Shares: A Case of Jam Tomorrow?
Pension Pointers – SIPPs – has your investment been checked properly?
Performance Management by the Crowd – A New Future for the Dreaded Reviews?
Performing Up To Par: A Heads Up With Paul Atkinson
Personal Data Breach Notification Requirements under the GDPR – What, When and How?
Personal guarantees and the COVID-19 Business Interruption Loans Scheme (CBILS)
Personal Guarantees: Considerations
Pieces Come Together for Lego
Planning ahead for possible Trump Whitehouse – what might this means for UK companies dealing with US investors and US acquirers
Post Lockdown: slowly returning to normality
Pressure on Banks Increases over Interest Rate Swaps: Cat MacLean Quoted in Press
Privacy Laws in the US Landscape: A 2024 Update
Private Fund Limited Partnerships (PFLPs)
Private Residential Tenancies Have Replaced Assured & Short Assured Tenancies
Professional negligence on the rise
Promotions & New Faces
Property development disputes
Property Hijack in the News Again
Pun free reminder on change to cookie law
RBS Told They Cannot Apply Set-Off to Debts After Bankruptcy
RBS v Carlyle - Where Now?
Recruiting Neurodivergence in the Workplace
Recruitment and the GDPR
Register of Overseas Entities
Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land
Regulating the unregulated: Money Laundering regulation for UK Cryptoassets
Renewable Energy: How Small and Medium-Sized Projects Could Benefit from Standard Contracts
Rent recovery - what options are available to commercial landlords?
Restrictive Covenants: Take care with the drafting!
Restrictive Covenants: Tips for Drafting
Resuming Compulsory Strike-off
Return to the workplace – the pros, the cons and the whys
Return to the workplace: Making adjustments to the workplace for employees with a disability
Return to the workplace: Making adjustments to the workplace for employees with a disability
Returning to the office - Vaccine information and Data Protection FAQs
Reviewing Contracts in Challenging Times
Revisiting the Rules of Entrenchment
Rock Spring Ventures Launches £50m Fund to Support Life Sciences
Route to the Door is Different for Directors
Schrems II Case
Scot-Buzz: Promoting Startups and Investment in Scotland
Scotland’s investment credentials need to catch up with the South
Scotland’s Renewable Energy Public Sector Funding – Is it working?
Scots Law or English Law
Scottish Courts and Tribunals - A change for the better?
Scottish Courts: Simple resumption or rejuvenation post-lockdown?
Scottish Independence – Employers at the Ready
Scottish Initiatives during the pandemic
Scottish Investment chiefs urged to back local firms
Scottish-European Growth Co-Investment Programme
Searching For Prior Art Just Got Easier
Section 52 Repeal
Seed Investments - a return to a simpler time?
Seeking Finance for Business?
Sensewhere Limited secures significant international investment & strategic partnership with Chinese internet giant, Tencent
series-b-and-beyond
Serving DNA “CRISPR”-the fore-CAS-t for intellectual property issues
Settlement Agreements - Proposals for Easier and Safer Compromise Agreements?
Seven Billion People
Sexy Pitching: Can Crowd Funding Work for Life Science Companies?
Share And Share Alike: Shares v Share Options
Share Capital Table and Dilution
Shared Parental Leave - what you need to know
Short Form IP Licences – What are they and why do you need one?
Should More Employees Own Shares?
Should you buy or rent a commercial property?
Silicon Valley Bank - It seems that the immediate danger has passed.
Sing While You Work!
Sky's the limit: Broadcaster successful in Scottish copyright infringement case
Snow Bother: How Employers Should Deal With Bad Weather
So how long is too long….?
Social Media and the GDPR
Social Media at work and bad behaviour – what can we learn?
Some Taxing Questions for Scottish Property Investment
Spin-outs UK Limited
Splitting Hairs: Myriad decision in at last
Spotlight on Performance and Managing Underperformance
Spotlight on Social Investing
Staff news
Stand Your Ground: Getting paid in an Uncertain Market
Star Net Geomatics Ltd secures investment as part of maiden investment by Par Innovation Fund 1 LP
Starbucks play smart by acting “dumb”
Starting up and climbing towards success
Startup Central: TechCube Edinburgh Opens Its Doors
Stem cell news: interest “regenerated” for potential investors?
Stopping the Leak - Data Security for Employers
Strengthened IPRs for UK Businesses? The New Intellectual Property Act.
Strike off action
Stuart Hendry wins Corporate Lawyer of the Year
Subsidy Cut: Not Such An Ill Wind - So Far
Success for Social Investment: first two deals secured in Scotland
Success in UK Supreme Court for Derek Carlyle and MBM
Super Mario and the True Meaning of Austerity
Support for Scotland’s Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Surrogate Mothers: No Right to Maternity Leave
Survival of the Happiest: How ESOPs might give your company the lead on surviving the Pandemic
Swaps and the FCA Review process: is the Review working?
Syndicated Investments – The new normal?
Take a minute to Minute!
Take Care with Pre-Irritancy Notices
Taking control of redundancy
Tales from the US #1: The Perils of Fundraising - Too good to be true? Are you?
Tales from the US#2: The Perils of Fundraising - US Compliance
Tech Law For Startups Returns - With Free Equity Guide!
Tech Trends for 2022
Tech Trends for 2022: Focus on Employee Priorities
Telecoms Tenants- Lease at an end but no end in sight
Tell Me Everything... The Right to be Informed.
Term Sheets: Use Your Heads!
Terminating for Insolvency: No easy ending
The 5 things you should always check before entering into a contract to avoid unwanted consequences
The American Dream
The Angel's Share: Archangels Inspire Entrepreneurs
The Bankers are not to blame - so who is?
The Banking Crisis – a thing of the past or ever present?
The banks are still open for business, but at what price?
The Bionic Entrepreneur: Ian Stevens Inspires
The Bribery Act
The Broken Model: How Pharma has to Adapt to the Changing Environment
The clock is ticking: an update on the law of prescription in Scotland
The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) – New Figures Released
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill 2020
The Director's Rulebook
The Euro Strikes – Again!
The European-Wide Patent: Friend Or Foe?
The Fast and Furious: buying an e-commerce business
The good, the bad, and the ugly... The latest VC trends
The Green Deal: What It Means For Property Owners
The hidden costs of an office move
The importance of Brands - selling your story
The importance of language and wording in contractual clauses
The Importance of Registering with the ICO
The Investment Fund for Scotland
The Job Support Scheme
The Kickstart Scheme – what employers need to know
The Law of Personalities
The legal consequences of the rise in online fraud
The Logan Review of the Scottish Technology Ecosystem
The Network Effect: Why Contacts Matter in Business and in Life
The New Distance Selling Rules-What You Need to Know
The New Immigration Rules: Deadlines you need to know
The Post-Sale Transition: Considerations for Founders After Selling Their Company – Part 1: How to navigate the change
The Post-Sale Transition: Considerations for Founders After Selling Their Company – Part 2: Leaving Early
The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme - FAQs
The Shattered Wine Glass
The Small Business, Enterprise And Employment Act 2015: Persons With Significant Control
The Startup Spirit
The State of Play: Business travel to the United States from the United Kingdom
The Supreme Court wrestles again with issues of loss in professional negligence claims
The Supreme Court, Quadrathlons and Awards – a busy year for Dispute Resolution!
The True Entrepreneur Is A Doer, Not A Dreamer
The UK - one of the best places in the world to establish a successful high growth technology business.
The what, how and why on UK businesses doing a “Delaware Flip” to break in to the US market
The When and the Where: Knowing When to Seek Investment and Who to Approach
The Wonderful World of Medical Devices – Part I: Definition and Claims
The Wonderful World of Medical Devices – Part II: Regulation and Getting to Market
The “Locked Box” Mechanism – a current trend in M&A activity
There's not enough stuff!
Things To Consider When Selling Your Business
Threatening to improve: long awaited changes for groundless threats provisions
Three Points About Warranties Every Startup Founder Should Understand
Tick Tock, Tik Tok: The perils of fundraising via social media
Time to pay up! The new registration fees for data controllers
To VC or not VC
Top 5 mistakes companies make when it comes to Intellectual Property
Top Tips: Dealing with your Bank
Trade mark and Medtech developments following Brexit
Trade Mark Infringement: Too Confusing For Bimbos?
Trade mark saints and sinners
Trade Secrets, Confidentiality, and Your Employees
Trouble & Strife at the "Cabaret of Angels"
Trust in your Trustee? – Should You Have Transferred Your Pension?
TUPE Tips: Know the Risks
Turbo Charging High Growth Companies
Turning Up The H.E.A.T.
Twitter And Co Keeping the Law On Its Toes
Twitter seeks positive impact on patent use
U.S. Ban on Immigration: How Far Does It Go?
UK Budget Announcement – Future Fund: Breakthrough and the Recovery Loan Scheme
UK Innovation Strategy - A report card
UK Investments – A review of 2020 and beyond
UK Looks Cheap for Dollar-based Investors. Are bargains to be had?
UK Supreme Court finds in favour of policyholders in FCA business interruption insurance test case
UK Visas for Ukrainian nationals
Unconscious Bias: Check Yourself
University Spin-outs - Things to consider as a founder
Unlocking value enhancement: why data compliance matters
Unregistered Design Rights – Why You Shouldn’t Overlook Them
Unregulated Upset
Update Monday 13 March - HSBC buys SVB UK
Update on LBTT Rates for Residential Property
Update on U.S. Visas and Immigration
Updating the Company’s Records Post-Investment
US Immigration Law Updates – How will recent changes to the H-1B visa lottery application system affect applicants?
US vs UK Private M&A – Two agreements divided by a common language?
US vs UK Private M+A: Bridging the Transatlantic Divide
Use Heads of Agreement for Main Deal Terms
Voice of an angel confirms importance of IP
Volunteering with Syrian Refugees
Vulture Funds eye up Co-Op and Funding Circle Loans – What could this mean for Borrowers?
WAGs at War: Defamation in Scotland
Wanted: Young Entrepreneurs And Future Innovators
We Can Do It!
Website humiliation, privacy and defamation
Well Done, George!
Whale Watching: Recent case highlights the risks of online fraud
What An Investor Looks For In A Business
What are you missing out on?
What help is available to employers affected by Covid-19
What is a Term Sheet?
What is an Interim Interdict and how can I protect myself and company?
What is the Latest on Swap Misselling? Settlement of the Crestsign Case Announced this Week.
What Startups Can Learn From The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics
What to consider when dismissing an employee
What’s next for furlough and support for the self-employed?
When algorithms undermine equality of opportunity
When beliefs extend beyond Veganuary
When does a change to the Articles of Association of a company require an alert to Option Holders?
When is a contractor not a contractor?
When is economic pressure no longer legitimate?
When Sensitive became Special
Where is the Best Place to Start a Business in the UK
Who's in charge and what do they do...?
Why You Can't Always Rely on Termination Dates in Leases
Will Data Analysis Ever Replace The HR Function?
Will Investment and M&A Growth in 2024 be fueled by AI, tech, and ESG innovations?
Will today be the day that President Joe Biden publishes his executive order on transatlantic data transfers?
Wind of Change - Feed-in-tariffs under review
Woolworths case : ECJ rules on meaning of “ establishment” in a collective redundancy situation
Work Experience Schemes Not Slave Labour!
World Tech Legal
Zara Diloo Talks Future Fund and MBM's Fixed Fee Arrangement for Fulfillment of Nominated Solicitor Role
Zero Hours Contracts – Zero Support or the Key to Happy Working?
Zero Hours Freedom
[Inter]active Duty: The online safety bill
“Alien” DNA has arrived, but should we patent it?
“Are you in danger of losing your rights?”
“Be a painkiller, not a vitamin.” An evening of speed dating with Scotland’s top investors.
“Pie”-oneering apps served on a plate: mobile creates new entrepreneurial opportunities
“That’s my goal”-incentives to publish in “big brand” science journals don’t guarantee quality research
“To break or not to break…?”
Entrepreneurial Insights & Start-up Blog
"The Customer Is King"
5 Legal Pitfalls Every Start-Up Should Avoid
A FLIGHT TO CAPITAL?
A FORGOTTEN TRUTH
Access to Capital
Access to Finance – Europe Provides
An Inspiring Event
BETTER EIS PROPOSALS FOR BUSINESS ANGELS
BUSINESS ANGELS GET SOCIAL
Business Angels Less Willing to Support Startups? Not From Where I'm Standing
BUSINESS ANGELS – THE NEW BAND OF ANGELS
Business Forum Scotland
CBILS & BBLS Update
CivTech Challenges - A Great Opportunity
Conference calls
Crowdfunding - A brief overview
Crowdfunding Comes Of Age
CROWDFUNDING GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
Crowdfunding – another word but unlikely to be the last
Doing Business in Europe
EQUITY INVESTMENT WHAT TO EXPECT AND PITFALLS FOR THE UNWARY
Eyejusters
London Hots Up – and the Capital Keeps Flowing
Look before you Leap!
MBM Commercial are delighted to support ClimateLaunchpad - the world’s biggest cleantech business ideas competition
Money In – Money Out
Quantiply Launch
R&D Tax Credits
Reflections on Successful Companies
Remain or Leave
Report from UK Business Angels Association National Investment Summit
Report: UK Business Angels Association Winter Conference
Scaling Up
Selling a Company: Deferred Consideration and Earn Outs.
TECH NATION
The EIS Market Continues to Grow
There is no such thing as a Bad Idea
Trusting Business Angels
Ubuntu
UK Business Angels Association Winter Dinner & Forum
UP ACCELERATOR
Your Impact as an Entrepreneur as a Leader Make sure your team are with you on the journey
Employment Blog
Becoming A Leader Others Want To Follow
Disciplinary issues - can matters be resolved informally?
GDPR: An Employment Perspective
IR35 FAQs
Steaming ahead – Rise of the interactive enterprise app
Which voice are you?
Dispute Resolution Blog
(What's the Story) Green & Rowley?
10 things you should know before you complain to the Financial Ombudsman Service!
3 Ways to Recover Your Deposit When The Contract Ends!
4 Ways to Recover Your Bad Debts!
5 Myths About Mediation!
5 Potential Legal Remedies To Prevent Enforcement Of A Personal Guarantee
Adjudication: Can Stale Claims Proceed Or Are They Time-Barred?
Airlines’ Time Bar Defences To Flight Compensation Claims Defeated!
An Offer too Good to be True? Enterprise Finance Guarantee Loan Mis-selling
Annuity Mis-selling: The Next Big Financial Scandal?
Are The New Basel Rules Likely To Help In The Long Run?
Ask and you shall receive - requesting data from banks
Avoiding Liability for Personal Guarantees: The Arguments In The Wilcox Case
Bad Advice to Borrow: Private Lending and the Statutory Right of Action
Bankers: Fixing the System
Banks Admit Misselling to SMEs
Banks Under Fire For Mis-selling of Investment Products
Barclays Announce IHRP Review Process
Beware! Banks attempting to push customers entitled to FSA review down Financial Ombudsman path
Bitesize Legal Case Study #1: The Online Banking Fraud
Breakage charges in fixed rate loan held by court to be unenforceable
Brexit – Implications for Banking Disputes
Can companies in liquidation take part in the FCA Review Process?
Can UK Businesses Charge International Debtors Statutory Late Payment Interest?
Catch Me If You Can: Banking Fraud Losses and Liability
Caveats – An Early Warning System for Court Proceedings!
Changing the guard: a new regulatory regime for financial services
Claiming Interest - The Basics
Clash of Laws: That'll Be The Clear As Mud Arbitration Clause!
Compensation Procedure for Misselling Claims
Consequential Losses Claims – What Next?
Court of Session is told: "bankers acted as salesmen".
Crestfallen? A Look At The Recent Case of Crestsign Ltd v Natwest & RBS
Crossing The Line: Successful Bias Challenge Removes Arbitrator
Crouching Condition Precedent Hidden Swap
David is taking Goliath to the UK Supreme Court
David Wins Against Goliath – Long Awaited Win for Derek Carlyle against RBS!
Disclosure in the FCA Review: An Update
Disclosures – you can't have your cake and eat it!
Economic Duress: A Potential Legal Lifeline for Borrowers?
EFG Loans: RBS Admits Mis-selling
EMIR: What does it mean for SMEs?
FCA Review Fact Finding – Meetings v Submissions
FCA Review of Interest Rate Swaps - Notes on a Fact Finding Meeting
FCA Review of Swap Misselling – Update
FCA Review Process Disclosure: Access Denied!
FCA Sets Deadline for Interest Rate Hedging Product Redress Scheme
FCA To Interpret Its Rules In A Swap Mis-selling Action against RBS
FCA Update - progress of the review of interest rate swaps
Financial Ombudsman Service Awards – No Two Bites at the Same Cherry
Five Factors to Consider Before Raising a Swap Claim against a Bank
Five Issues To Consider Before Arguing Economic Duress!
Foreign Exchange Market Rigging – One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward
FSA expected to publish further details of their agreement with the banks relating to mis-selling of interest rate hedging products
FSA Initial Review of Mis-selling of swaps to SMEs to be published this Friday
FSA Pilot Findings - Are you sophisticated?
FSA reveal role of independent reviewer
FSCS' Decision to Refuse Compensation Leaves 'Toxic' Bond Investors Dejected
Funding Banking Claims
Getting Paid – When to Use Diligence on the Dependence
Grant Estates Ltd v RBS: A Knockout Blow for Mis-sold Customers?
Green & Rowley v RBS Appeal - Guest Starring the FCA
Green Light for LIBOR Manipulation Claims
Halloween Jubilation for Delayed Air Passengers! UK Supreme Court Refuses Airlines' Flight Delay Appeals
Have you or your company been the victim of online fraud?
Hidden dangers of swap agreements: misselling of interest rate swaps by the Banks
How can a company in liquidation make a claim for swap mis-selling?
How can we achieve cultural change within the banking sector?
How effective is the FCA? MPs set to debate the role of the FCA in a backbench business debate on 1st February.
How Much Can I Recover In Damages in a Professional Negligence Action
How To Register And Enforce An EU Judgement in Scotland
How to Sue - Expert Report on Negligence
Implied Duty of Good Faith: A False Dawn?
Implied Duty of Good Faith: Is Commercial Contract Law on the Verge of Embracing Morality?
Income drawdown – can you claim back commission payments?
Interest Rate Swap Litigation: Strikeout for Claimants following Banks' victory
Interest Rate Swap Mis-selling: It's Make Your Mind Up Time!
Interest Rate Swap Mis-selling: the role of the Financial Services Ombudsman
Interest Rate Swap misselling - FSA announces results of Pilot Review
Interest Rate Swap Misselling – the bank’s fact finding meetings
Interest Rate Swaps and Consequential Loss
Interest Rate Swaps FCA Review Scheme Criticised by MPs
Interest Rate Swaps: Exploiting the Knowledge Gap
Is the Scottish RBS v Carlyle Supreme Court decision relevant for English litigants?
Is your swap claim time-barred?
It’s a Penalty (Clause)!
Judicial Review of the FCA Review Process on Swap Misselling
Know The Score: Repayment of Verbal Loans
Legal scrutiny of the FCA Review Process as news breaks of "secret deal" struck between the banks and the regulator
Libor fixing allegations against Deutsche Bank in Unitech lawsuit
Like A Phoenix From The Flames: Is A Phoenix Company Illegal?
Litigating Libor in swap cases - Barclays allowed to appeal amendment in Guardian Care Homes Case
Litigating Libor: An Update
Litigating Libor: Could Swaps and Other Banking Agreements Based on Libor be Considered Void?
Litigating Libor: Interest Rate Fixing and Actions for Damages
Litigating Libor: RBS Chief Stephen Hester Says His Bank will be in the Libor-fixing Spotlight
Litigation against RBS re rights issue reported to be imminent
Lloyds claim swap costs will be "immaterial"
Looking for a needle in a haystack – the cost and time implications of the disclosure procedure in England
Maybe Not Two Bites of the Cherry After All...
MBM attend Banking Litigation Network Conference
MBM Hosts Conference on the Changing Banking Landscape
MBM quoted in Herald article today
MBM quoted in the Herald this morning on FSA latest
Media interest in new claims funding company
Mediation - An Offer You Can't Refuse?
Mis-selling victims to wait up to 9 months for compensation review decision
Mis-sold a Swap? Time to check your jurisdiction and governing law clauses!
Mitigating your loss - what does this really mean?
Momentum gathers in interest rate swap mis-selling: FSA to investigate
Mortgage repossession – recent FOS rulings tell lenders to extend terms indefinitely for older borrowers.
Mortgage repossession – when is a borrower’s proposal reasonable?
Moving the Goalposts
MPs discuss swaps scandal in House of Commons Debate
Negligent Misrepresentation: A Grouse In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush
New Fund for Bank Claims
Online Banking Fraud Scandal: A Hijacking
Pedal to the Metal: Are the Banks Speeding Up the FCA Review Process?
Personal Guarantees And Good Faith: The Wilcox Saga
Personal Guarantees and the Devil’s Agreement
Pre-Litigation Recovery of Documents: Is A 'Section 1' Order An Option?
Professional Negligence – Clearing the Causation Hurdle
Progress on Interest Rate Swap Mis-selling Claims - the aftermath of the Titan Steel Wheels case
Property Participation Agreements: Giving Away the Family Silver?
RBS Accused of Modifying Customer Files to Influence Interest Rate Hedging Compensation Decisions
RBS blames redundancies on need to comply with bank regulations
RBS faces further accusations over interest rate swaps
RBS LIBOR fine and swap misselling claims
RBS: Working Hard to Put Things Right?
Recovering Online Fraud Losses: Lessons from the USA
Regulator to Examine Banks’ Lending to SME's
Restoring The Company: Can Rogue Directors Be Brought to Justice?
Reviewable Whole of Life Insurance Policies: Have You Been Mis-sold?
Scotsman Comments on Interest Rate Swap Sales
Scotsman reports on FSA investigations into hedging and swaps
Settlement Agreements: The Devil is in the Detail
Signs of a Storm to Come – Cracks in the FCA Review Programme Continue to Spread
Six Potential Ways out of a Personal Guarantee!
Some interest rate swap victims to receive compensation within weeks
Spam Wars: Spammed Email Recipients Strike Back!
Study seeks to look at the true cost of bank driven insolvency
Swap mis-selling storm finally breaks over UK banks
Swap payments – time for the big freeze?
Swithering Over A Potential Legal Claim? If You Snooze You Lose!
Tailored Business Loans: The Financial Ombudsman Service Throws A Lifeline?
Take A Chance
The Banking Code - when is a rule not a rule?
The FSA Pilot Review - Expect the Unexpected
The Scandals surrounding Cerberus – only in Ireland or also closer to home?
Two Bites at the Cherry?
Two Case Studies – A Cautionary Tale of the Benefits of Caveats
UK Supreme Court Decision Changes Scots Law On Time Bar
Unethical behaviour could be economic duress
Unpaid Invoices – Can You Sue Scottish Consumers In England?
Van Der Lans v KLM: Should Flight Delay Cases Stay or Should They Go?
Video Response to Channel 4's "Can You Trust Your Bank?"
Were you missold a Tailored Business Loan or Fixed rate Loan?
What is the latest on swap litigation? Fraud and dishonesty “at the highest level of RBS”.
What losses can be recovered for breach of trust?
Wheatley Review on Libor
Who watches the watchmen? Bully Banks seeking judicial review of the Swap Mis-Selling Review.
Why You Should Have Legal Representation At A Fact Finding Meeting
Will trickle of fixed rate TBLs considered by FSA Review turn into a flood?
Witness Evidence Tips Scales In Favour of Bank in PG Court Challenge
World-Wide Banking Litigation Network Conference
“Can You Trust Your Bank?” – Channel 4 considers...
Investments & Funds Blog
Scotland’s Top Ten Tech Start Ups – See Who’s On The List
Data Protection Blog
The Final Countdown
GDPR News
GDPR NEWS - ICO issues further guidance on meaning of “Public Task” in GDPR
News
100 Face Masks, £4k, and a lot of Sweating - Day 20 of MBM’s Samaritans Fundraising Challenge
2023 Deal Highlights
24-themed Challenge Completed!
A Virtual Office Visit in Aid of Samaritans
Action against failed property company, Blackmore Bond PLC
Alison Scott joins MBM Commercial
Another year, another (Converge) Challenge
Applications are Now Open for Converge!
Autumn Newsletter: Still some bumps ahead
Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP) Raises £2m
Bottleneck for the Licensing Trade
Branching Out - Management Buy Out for Highland Forestry
Brexit for Entrepreneurs
Brexit: what next for EU citizens working in the UK?
Budget Changes for Entrepreneurs' Relief
Building a U.S. sales team
Carcinotech secures £1.6m of new investment from leading Scottish investors
Cat MacLean Appointed to Law Society’s Pursuer’s Panel
Christmas Wishes
Christmas Wishes
Class Action Law to help Clydesdale loan-sale claimants
Converge 2020 is Open for Applications
Crowdfunding Food & Drink Ventures
Data's perfect storm
Developments at MBM’s London Office
Dilapidations- a drafting minefield
Doing the Deal: LONDON
Don’t forget the Wall of Debt!
Double Victory for MBM Commercial at Herald Law Awards
Driving and being driven by smart data
Edinburgh Commercial property market overview
Edinburgh-based AI-driven project delivery scale-up Sharktower raises seed funding
EIE – It’s right up our street!
EISA Awards 2022: MBM Commercial is a Finalist for the Best Legal & Regulatory Advisor
Entrepreneurial Journeys
Entrepreneurial Journeys - Celtic Renewables
Entrepreneurial Journeys - Celtic Renewables
Entrepreneurial Journeys - Invizius
Event: A Blueprint for US Expansion
Five Factors to Build a Strong Sales Team in the US
Fixed Fee Litigation – any case, any size, any complexity
Funds Update
Getting Serious About Series B
Getting to grips with GDPR
Got Data on your People Resources?
History proves to be a hit as MBM Commercial assists in sale of History Hit to All3Media
Holistic HR Service Updates
i-Deals Update - October 2021
i-Deals Update – December 2017
i-DEALS: MBM CORPORATE ACTIVITY CONTINUES AT HIGH LEVELS
iDeals
iDeals update
iDeals update
iDeals Update
iDeals Update
iDeals update (December 2016)
iDeals Update - June 2022
iDeals update July 2018
Ideals update June 2017
In4Derm Completes Seed Funding Round
In4Derm raises £1.6m pre-Series A funding to support its growing pipeline of first-in-class anti-inflammatory therapeutics
IndiNature raises £3 million investment
Industry Veteran Joins MBM Commercial’s Dispute Resolution Team
Intellectual Property, Data and Contracts Services Expansion
Introducing MBM's Snack & Chat Podcast
Invest2Scale - supporting the best scale-up companies in Scotland
Investors with benefits
IP & Commercial Contracts Update
Job Vacancy - Business Development Co-ordinator / Manager, MBM Commercial LLP, Edinburgh
Key Tips for Negotiating Venture Capital Deals
Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT)
Landlords – Take Action!
Legal hub launched to ensure commercial deals stay on track during lockdown
Levelling the playing field : achieving fair business banking
Looking Ahead at 2023
M&A Trends in 2018 – W&I on the Rise
M&A Trends in Entrepreneurial Private Companies
MBM Advises Big Pi on its Latest Investment
MBM Advises Immense Simulations on its $4.6m Series A Funding
MBM advises QikServe in its Acquisition of Preoday
MBM assists NatureMetrics with their recent £2.5m funding round
MBM assists PD Neurotechnology with EUR1.5m funding round
MBM ASSISTS WITH VCT INVESTMENT FOR INTEGRATED DRUG DISCOVERY SERVICES EXPANSION
MBM Client Secures £11M From The Department From Transport.
MBM Commercial - LawNet Law Firm of the Year 2022
MBM Commercial act for Clients in Connection with Whisky Distillery Development in Edinburgh
MBM Commercial advises BioCity on investment in tech start-up INCUS Performance
MBM Commercial advises CuanTec Ltd on partnership with Hive Energy
MBM Commercial advises Fitabeo Therapeutics on successful spin out
MBM Commercial advises Humio Limited on $9m investment from US venture capital firm Accel
MBM Commercial advises Rhizocore Technologies on £3.5m Investment
MBM Commercial advises Wobble Genomics as it raises £8.5 million
MBM Commercial Announced as Finalist for Scottish Legal Awards - Firm of the Year
MBM Commercial announces round of promotions
MBM Commercial appoints corporate partner as head of new London office
MBM Commercial Appoints US Corporate Partner
MBM Commercial assists Carbogenics in £500,000 Investment Round
MBM Commercial Assists Current Health with £9m Series A Funding
MBM Commercial assists Hearing Diagnostics with £715,000 Investment Round
MBM Commercial Assists in £4.2 Million Funding Transaction for Carcinotech’s US Expansion
MBM Commercial Assists Jiva Materials Ltd in Seed Funding Round
MBM Commercial boosts leadership team with hire of specialist Fintech Partner
MBM Commercial Celebrates Triple Nomination Triumph in Herald Law Awards
MBM Commercial Clinches Coveted "Law Firm of the Year" Award for the Second Consecutive Year
MBM Commercial delighted to retain rankings for the Legal 500 in Commercial Litigation and in Corporate/Commercial
MBM Commercial Elevates Two Directors to Partner Positions, Bolstering Corporate Law Practice
MBM Commercial enters strategic partnership for patent attorney consultants
MBM Commercial expands US Team
MBM Commercial garners four nominations in The Herald Law Awards
MBM Commercial has advised P D Neurotechnology (PDN) on its 1.3m (EUR) funding for the development of its ground breaking wearable medical technology
MBM Commercial Hosts Business & Banking Litigation Network Annual Event in Edinburgh, Scotland for the First Time
MBM Commercial is a finalist in the UKBAA Awards - Best Legal Team for Early-Stage Deals
MBM Commercial listed in TechRound’s top lawyers for startups in 2022
MBM Commercial Listed in the Times Best Law Firms 2020
MBM Commercial Listed in the Times Best Law Firms 2021
MBM Commercial LLP support leading university programme to attract next generation of entrepreneurs with Converge Challenge
MBM Commercial maintains high listings in Legal 500 and Chambers 2018 rankings
MBM Commercial nominated for Financial Services Award 2016
MBM Commercial receives new & high listings in Legal 500 and Chambers 2022 rankings
MBM Commercial retains EISA Award for 2021
MBM Commercial selected as finalists at the Angel Investment Awards
MBM Commercial Seminar: 24th November 2016
MBM Commercial shortlisted for two 2023 Lawnet Awards
MBM Commercial shortlisted for UKBAA Best Legal Advisor for Early Deals 2023
MBM Commercial shortlisted in 2023 Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) Awards for best S/EIS Legal/Regulatory Adviser
MBM Commercial strengthens US Practice
MBM Commercial Turns 15
MBM Commercial Welcomes Simon Hart to Lead Non-Contentious Banking Practice
MBM Commercial Win Law Firm of the Year 2018
MBM Commercial wins Law Firm of the Year at the 2018/2019 LawNet Awards
MBM Commercial's Cat MacLean called as expert witness over Treasury plans for financial tribunal system
MBM Commercial's Tracey Ginn finalist in the Scottish Women's Awards 2019
MBM Commercial’s Corporate team maintains high listings in Legal 500 and Chambers 2019 rankings
MBM Commercial’s Corporate team maintains high listings in Legal 500 and Chambers 2021 rankings
MBM Commercial’s Dispute Resolution team achieve significant judgement in bank fraud case
MBM Commercial’s Dispute Resolution team maintains high listings in Chambers 2021 rankings
MBM Commercial’s Dispute Resolution team maintains high listings in Legal 500 and Chambers 2019 rankings
MBM Commercial’s Dispute Resolution team successful in the Court of Session
MBM Commercial’s Jamie Apted Wins at Scottish Legal Awards 2019
MBM Economic and Investment Round-up
MBM heads to Germany on trade mission
MBM helping to Secure Early Stage Funding for Growth Companies
MBM hosts successful Alternative Dispute Resolution Workshop
MBM Nominated for Law Firm of the Year Award
MBM paving the way for a more inclusive legal profession: Law Society of Scotland publishes report on racial inclusion in the Scottish legal profession
MBM scoops EISA Award for Best Legal and Regulatory Adviser
MBM Senior Partner Gets Ready for 24 Hour Marathon
MBM Sleep In The Park
MBM step up their Corporate Social Responsibility efforts
MBM Wins “Law Firm of the Year” at the Law Awards of Scotland 2016
MBM's enhanced restructuring offering
MBM's M&A Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 20
MBM's M&A Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 21
MBM's M&A Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 22
MBM's M&A Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 23
MBM's M&A Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 24
MBM's M&A Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 25
MBM's US Team
MBM’s Dispute Resolution team lead the way in financial thought leadership, with the second in their series of financial conferences in April
MBM’s London Practice Continues to Grow
Mediation
Michael Arnott - A Top 10 Influential London M&A Lawyer
Mocean Energy secures new investment
Munich comes to Edinburgh
New Appointments
New Faces
New Faces
New funding to support global fight against C. difficile
New partners appointed at MBM Commercial
Online Payments
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People News
People Update
People Update
Preparing for Change - The New General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Pride Interview - Animation Garden
Quickblock raises £250k in funding for new jobs and growth acceleration
Quorum Cyber raises new investment from Livingbridge to fuel growth
Roslin Technologies £10m investment creates the largest Agritech start-up in UK history
Service of Documents
Sharing Our Values
SICCAR Receives Investment of £1.3m
Silver Linings
Slow Adventures makes fast progress
SME Finance Report issued by the Treasury Select Committee
SME Finance Report issued by the Treasury Select Committee
Smiles All Round as Floe Oral Care raises £350k Seed Funding
Smiles All Round as Floe Oral Care raises £350k Seed Funding
Snack & Chat - Episode 18
Snack & Chat - Episode 19
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 10
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 11
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 12
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 13
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 14
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 15
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 16
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 17
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 2
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 3
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 4
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 5
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 6
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 7
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 8
Snack & Chat Podcast - Episode 9
Sophia Technologies Completes £580k Investment Round
Spring 2020 - Being Resilient
Spring News: A real shot in the arm
Staff News
Staff News - New Additions to our Team at MBM
Stamp Free raises £300,000 for innovative digital postage solution
Stamp Free Raises £600k in Oversubscribed Funding Round
Standing Out - MBM Commercial's Food and Drink Conference
Standing Out – Creating and investing in the food and drink businesses of tomorrow
Strathberry bags £8 million investment
Success for Scotland
Summer newsletter 2017 - Welcome
Summer Newsletter: Growth Continues
Ten Bio attracts investment for US expansion
The Additional Dwelling Supplement - an LBTT update
The Extraordinary Lives Club
The gig economy and employment status
The impact of the Autumn Budget on SEIS and EIS reliefs
The legal consequences of the rise in online fraud
The view from London
The view from London: In Spite of Brexit? Or just Strong and Stable?
Thinking of selling to a US buyer?
Three in a row for EISA Highly Commended Awards
Trademarks & how we can help
US firm stalls in bid to recover debts bought from Clydesdale
Veteran corporate lawyer, John Nimmo, joins MBM Commercial
Webinar: Contracts Disputes and COVID 19
Webinar: Getting IP Right
Webinar: Lifelines in the Lockdown
Welcome - MBM Commercial Newsletter, December 2017
What’s new in employment law in 2017?
Where there is a will, there is a lawsuit: Third Party Funding of Litigation in Scotland
Your country needs you to enlist in the Scottish Tech Army
£1.5m funding round fuels US growth for Talking Medicines
£2 million investment secured to accelerate growth of natural fibre insulation
“24-related” challenges to support the Samaritans
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