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- "Be An Angel" - Launch of the BBAA Campaign
- "Meet the Entrepreneur"
- "Their assistance has been invaluable and I would recommend them to anyone as the firm provides excellent value for money services"
- 'An Accident Waiting To Happen': The Banking Commission On The Downfall of HBOS
- 10th April 2018 - Marketing and GDPR
- 24th April 2018 - The User Experience and how to use GDPR to your Advantage
- 4 things to consider for successful employment
- 5 Things To Watch Out For In Your Lease After Leaving An Incubator
- 50,000 Reasons Your Online Terms Should Be Fair
- 7 Key Questions for Early-Stage Founders
- 8 Things to Consider When You Incorporate Your Business
- 8th May 2018 - Beyond GDPR Implementation
- A Better Deal for Employees: Changes to the EMI Share Option Scheme
- A comparison of the GDPR, ePrivacy Regulation, Data Protection Bill and Law Enforcement Directive
- A Higher Standard
- A New Year for Employment Law
- A Noble Cause: Using T-Cell Receptor Based Technology to Fight Cancer
- A Rebirth For Stem Cells?
- A Recall Too Far
- A Vintage Year for Investment
- A Visit To Downing Street
- A Walk in the Park
- A World Without Smartphone Patent Legislation: Too Much To Ask?
- Ability in the Workplace: How the Paralympics are Setting an Example
- Abolition of corporate directors
- Agree the Process and Documents to be Used
- Alcohol & Drugs in the Workplace - it's not just bankers!
- Aligning Startup Interests at the Turing Festival?
- All Shook Up: Channel 4 raises genetic privacy issues trying to be “dead famous”
- Alternative Structures to Fund Investment Deals
- An Education in Mediation
- An End To Dead Tree Annual Reports
- An evening of Low Carbon Innovation with UWI Technology and Vegware
- An Independent Scotland: What Do The Entrepreneurs Think?
- An Insight into our IP Team
- An Introduction to the UK’s New Points-based Immigration System
- Are Digital Or Traditional Business Skills More Important?
- Are Red Bull really being trade mark bullies?
- Are your post-termination restrictions fit for purpose?
- As an EU citizen working in the UK, should I be trying to get a UK Passport?
- Auto-Enrolment: What Employers Need to Know
- Automated Decision Making and Data Protection – when can you use it?
- Avoiding Website Woes with Tech Law for Startups
- Bad Trip – Defamation on the Internet and Anonymity
- Bank Misconduct and Economic Crime: Guest Blog by Nikki Turner, Director of SME Alliance
- Banking disputes turned professional negligence claims
- Banking in the wake of a crash - how do we move forward? What do businesses want and need from a commercial banking relationship?
- Banking New Business
- Banks Back in Business
- Be Curious!
- Becoming A Leader Others Want To Follow
- Beware Politicians Bearing Gifts
- Beware the Covid Copyright Shakedown
- Big Win in Court for Dispute Resolution Group - Carlyle Case
- Bitcoin: Bit part or principal player?
- Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) – A Quick Guide
- Boxer Gives Troll The Twitter Jitters
- Brands for the Bands: is Copyright so Important for the Music Industry?
- Brexit and Changes to Employment
- Business and The Olympic Dream
- Business Bank Is Open For Business
- Business Forum Scotland Event
- California and Data Protection
- Can an employer rely on a recommendation by an HR consultant to dismiss?
- Can copyright cover music compilations?
- Can We Create Thriving Startup Cities?
- Can we dismiss an employee with two months’ service and who is still within their probationary period without following a disciplinary or performance management procedure?
- Capital + Innovation = Wealth Creation
- Career Advice – Sandy Cullen
- Career Management - The Basic Problem:
- Career move? Marketing Yourself
- Cash from Customers
- Cash is King
- Cat MacLean profile in The Scotsman today
- Cat MacLean Quoted In Press Over Developer's Battle With RBS
- Cat MacLean Quoted Over Bank's Refusal to Review Fixed Rate "Embedded Swap" Loans
- Cat MacLean, Head of Dispute Resolution, in The Herald today
- Caveats: Protecting you and your business against the unexpected
- Celebrating MBM’s 10 Year Milestone
- Celebrating Women’s Entrepreneurship Day – 19 November
- Changes in UK Consumer Law
- Changes to Employment Contracts – 6 April 2020
- Check Your Company Books Are Up To Date
- Chemical attraction-Harry Stratford on how to build a successful drug company
- Chilly response from the ICO regarding “Cold Calling”
- Choose an Appropriate Adviser
- Clone Wars and Food Fights: A step back for European Science?
- Closing an Investment Deal by Text Message
- Cloud Platform Provider ThinkGrid Acquired By Colt Technology Services
- Clubs, Societies and the GDPR (part 1)
- Clubs, Societies and the GDPR (part 2)
- Codes of Conduct
- Combatting Modern Slavery – all businesses have a part to play
- Come Hell or High Water: Meltwater Increases the Scope of Copyright Law
- Committed To Change…
- Company Books: Dotting the I’s and Crossing the T’s!
- Company Secretarial Update - Transfer Documents, Companies House Filing Changes
- Conditions Precedent: Don't Fall At The First Hurdle
- Conflicts of Discrimination
- Connect Investment Conference
- Consent – to renew or not to renew, that is the question….
- Controller / Processor Contracts – what’s new?
- Controller / Processor Contracts – what’s new?
- Conversion of Administration Into Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation – Scotland
- Convertible Loan Deals – About to make a comeback?
- Conveyancing and Security Transactions
- Coronation Street and the IP hotpot plot
- Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020
- Coronavirus FAQs for Companies & Directors
- Coronavirus FAQs for Employers
- Corporate Governance for Unlisted Companies
- Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill - Legislation Limbo?
- Countdown to EIE14: Founder Fundamentals
- COVID Cashflow - Time is of the Essence
- Crayola Sees Red Over Crayons: Preventing a Trade Mark from Becoming Generic
- Credit Where It Is Due
- Crowd Funding
- Crowd Funding Comes of Age
- Crowdfunding and Nominee Shareholdings
- Crowdfunding – Coping with the Consequences
- Cuts, Cuts, Cuts
- Czech Chancer? Cornwall Cowboy? 5 steps to know where to sue.
- Danny Boyle And The Cauldron Of Controversy: Design Rights Hit The News
- Data Protection Act 2018
- Data Protection Impact Assessments – what, when and why?
- Data Protection v TUPE - a Reconciliation?
- Data Security – use of pseudonymisation under the GDPR
- Database rights: Ryanair finds benefit in third class
- Dealing with Indebtedness
- Dealing with online contracts and electronic signatures
- Deals Update
- Debt Finance for Business
- Decrypting Energy Terminology, What does Watt mean?
- Derivatives Mis-selling: Cat MacLean quoted in The Herald newspaper today
- Designers and IP Protection: Fashion’s Front Line
- Digital Deals – How to sign documents without leaving your house
- Digital resale restrictions die hard
- DILAPIDATIONS SHOULD REFLECT LANDLORDS’ ACTUAL LOSS
- Diligence: What's Due?
- Disabilities and the UK’s Ageing Population – The Case for In-Work Support
- Disclaiming Demystified
- Dismissal for Offensive Personal Twitter Posts: Be careful what you Tweet for...
- Disputing Banking Debts
- Do we need another Bank?
- Do you employ mobile workers? If so the new ECJ judgement re travel time is likely to impact you.
- Document Indexing and Signing Requirements
- Does Europe Matter?
- Doing Business in the U.S. – Forming a U.S. Entity
- Doing Business in the U.S. – Trump in the Changes!
- Doing Business in the US
- Doing more with Less
- Doing The Deal: The Deal Team
- Don't take the mickey - how to banish the "sickie"
- Don’t waste time tackling your business waste!
- dot.com is booming……. but not here!
- Dragons, Registered Designs and other animals
- Driving a new wave of tech entrepreneurs in London
- Due Diligence – Preparing to have your tyres kicked?
- Dynamic Innovation
- Early Conciliation: Easy and Effective Settlement?
- Early-Stage Investment Fund Passion Capital Launches
- Edinburgh Molecular Imaging finds a “local champion” in Epidarex
- EIS and SEIS - Tax Relief
- EIS Relief breaks the £1 Billion Barrier
- EIS: What's Really Happening Out There?
- Emergency Changes to UK Insolvency Rules
- EMI Options and Furloughed Employees
- EMI Options and Working Time during Coronavirus Lockdown
- EMI Options – The Fundamentals
- Employees on long term sick? The new Fit for Work Service could help...
- Employers no longer able to recoup Statutory Sick Pay
- Employing overseas nationals - FAQs
- Employment Law - Inaccurate References
- Employment NEWS FLASH: Statutory Sick Pay Impacts - Budget 2020
- Employment Question of the Month: Can a worker still earn commission whilst on holiday?
- Employment Question of the Month: How will the new system of Shared Parental Leave affect my business?
- Employment Question of the Month: Maternity Rights
- Employment Question of the Month: What happens if a transferee refuses to accept transferring employees following a TUPE transfer?
- Employment Question of the Month: When can an employer ask questions about a job applicant's health?
- Employment Tribunal Fees
- Employment Tribunal Fees - Judicial Review Dismissed
- Employment Tribunal Fees: The Unintended Consequences
- Engage – Invest – Exploit
- Entrepreneurial Impact
- Entrepreneurship Tips from PJ Darling of Spark Energy [Event Report]
- Equal Rights for Surrogacy Families: The Legal Challenge
- Event Report: Managing Staff Performance Seminar
- Excessive company valuations
- 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
- Fattism – a new kind of discrimination?
- Financial Product Liability: The "Tobacco Moment"
- Financing High Growth Companies
- Financing New Ventures – An Entrepreneurs Guide to Business Angel Investment
- Finding Funding: Report from WeDo Scotland Event
- Fines for Data Protection breach on the rise
- Five Ingredients for Extreme Startup Success
- Fixed Fee Litigation - Six months on
- Flexible Furlough - FAQs
- Flexible Working and Shared Parental Leave: Implications for Employers
- 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
- Frustrating Times: Coronavirus and Commercial Contracts
- Fund Managers Must Support our Tech Start-Ups
- Funders’ Forebode
- Funding Experts Provide the Fundamentals for Life Science Investment
- Furlough Leave and the Job Retention 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
- GDPR and Cross Border Transfers of Data
- GDPR and Data Portability
- GDPR News - Article 29 Working Party have produced updated guidance on personal data breach notification
- GDPR News - ICO issues further guidance on meaning on Documentation requirement in GDPR
- GDPR News - ICO Publishes an Introduction to the Data Protection Bill
- GDPR News - New model announced for funding the data protection work of the ICO
- GDPR News 15/5/18
- GDPR News 23/5/18
- GDPR News 4/4/18
- GDPR News – 26/6/18
- Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Where do we go from here?
- Genetic and medical record data-commodities to be monetized?
- Genomes, IP and Ethics: The 100,000 Genomes Project
- Get Wise, Get Organised
- Get Your Company Running Like A Gazelle
- Global Ambition: 10 Lessons for Entrepreneurs
- Going Stateside: Commercial Issues UK Companies Need to Consider in the US
- 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?
- 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
- Holiday Pay and Commission - the saga continues...
- How Do I Negotiate With My Bank?
- How Do I Set A Share Option Price?
- How far does the GDPR reach…?
- How to do HR (well!) without an HR Manager – 5 useful tips…
- How To Find A Good Management Team
- How to Raise Equity Investment During an Economic Crisis
- How To Startup For Success
- How to sue – Expert report on negligence
- HR continues to evolve…
- Ice Factor acquires SNO!zone Braehead
- iDeals: MBM helps clients with significant deals
- Illness during Annual Leave: New Ruling from ECJ
- Implementing a Successful Workplace Wellbeing Program
- Important Consultation on the Use of Financial Services by SMEs
- Importing Capital
- Importing Capital
- Importing Capital
- In the News:
- Increased Living Wage Announced - Is It Enough?
- Innovation Damage: Has Facebook Altered The Landscape For Other Startups?
- Instagram's insta-drama over copyright licence
- Instagram's instant action
- Interest rate swaps - Grant Estates update
- Interest Rate Swaps: Cat MacLean quoted in the press
- International Exits
- Investing Women Conference – Ambition and Growth – 7/8 March 2016
- Investment in Scottish Life Sciences: A Brave New World?
- Investor Preferences
- IP Ownership and the Valley of Death
- 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
- 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
- Lease Negotiations: Top Five Tips
- Leases and LBTT
- Life Sciences Update
- Lifting the lid on the Patent Box
- Limited Partnerships – Fund Friendly Proposals
- Litigation Advisory Firm of the Year in Scotland
- Loan Notes for Investors: Are They Becoming More Popular?
- Long Lease Conversion- the Appointed Day has Arrived
- Looking for Finance
- Louboutin Not To Be Trampled Underfoot
- Luckey breach of NDA not so lucky for Facebook
- Making Money on Holiday: Should Commission be Included?
- Making Sense of Term Sheets
- Managing Employee Absence When It Reaches Olympic Standards
- Managing your Business Relationship with your Bank During the Pandemic: Loan to Value Covenants
- Mapping the path to compliance - GDPR legal advice
- Marc Marked Out for Infringement?
- Mark Our Words: Trade Mark Pitfalls to Avoid
- MBM Advise On Another International Sale Deal
- MBM advises on 9 figure sale deal.
- MBM attend the inaugural world-wide Banking Litigation Network Conference
- MBM client M Squared Lasers is Scotland's fastest growing company
- MBM Client Secures £11M From The UK Department For Transport
- MBM Help Launch Novel ‘Restitution’ Fund To Fund Banking Claims
- MBM hold successful conference on the Changing Banking Landscape
- MBM Quoted In Press As Watchdog Overturns Loan Mis-selling Ruling
- MBM Seeking Government Clarification On Share Buy Backs
- MBM to champion small firms in battle against banks
- MBM Wins Another Personal Guarantee Case Against the Banks
- MBM's Summer Newsletter Now Available
- MedTech gains Momentum at BioCity
- Megan Markle
- Mental Health in the Workplace: Are you taking relevant action?
- Microsoft loses trade mark battle over ‘Sky’
- Mis-Selling: Cat MacLean Comments on Allegations Against the Banks
- Misleading adverts: Rooney tweets and getting bitter with Apple
- Mistakes companies make regarding their IP-and how to avoid them
- More for Less & More from Less
- Mortgage Repossession - borrowers may be able to claim compensation where lenders try to enforce a court order obtained before a change in the law
- Mortgage Repossession - the uncertain consequences of the Decision in Royal Bank of Scotland Plc. v. Jamieson on Calling Up Notices
- Need Money in a Hurry? Alternative Routes to the Traditional Fundraise
- NEET Work
- Negligent Misrepresentation: Half The Truth Is Often A Whole Lie!
- 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 Copyright Law For Orphan Works - Was ERRA Passed In Error?
- New EU Data Protection Law Close to Becoming a Reality
- New EU Trade Mark Laws Approved
- 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 online filing requirement for your employee share scheme.
- New Protections for Commercial Tenants in the Coronavirus Outbreak
- 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
- Novation v Assignment
- Obtaining title to no-man’s land
- Oh! - Modified Rapture
- Online Fraud - When there's blame to go around
- 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)
- Personalised Medicine And A Myriad Of Problems
- Pieces Come Together for Lego
- Post Lockdown: slowly returning to normality
- Pressure on Banks Increases over Interest Rate Swaps: Cat MacLean Quoted in Press
- Private Fund Limited Partnerships (PFLPs)
- Private Residential Tenancies Have Replaced Assured & Short Assured Tenancies
- Pun free reminder on change to cookie law
- RBS Told They Cannot Apply Set-Off to Debts After Bankruptcy
- RBS v Carlyle - Where Now?
- Recruitment and the GDPR
- Renewable Energy: How Small and Medium-Sized Projects Could Benefit from Standard Contracts
- Restrictive Covenants: Take care with the drafting!
- Restrictive Covenants: Tips for Drafting
- Rock Spring Ventures Launches £50m Fund to Support Life Sciences
- 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: 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?
- Sing While You Work!
- 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 Social Investing
- Staff news
- 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
- Strategies for Stratified Medicine: A Rosy Outlook for Scotland’s Wealth & Health
- 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
- Supercharged at BioCity Scotland
- 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?
- Take a minute to Minute!
- Take Care with Pre-Irritancy Notices
- Taking control of redundancy
- Tech Law For Startups Returns - With Free Equity Guide!
- Telecoms Tenants- Lease at an end but no end in sight
- Tell Me Everything... The Right to be Informed.
- Term Sheets: Use Your Heads!
- 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 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 good, the bad, and the ugly... The latest VC trends
- The Green Deal: What It Means For Property Owners
- The importance of Brands - selling your story
- The Importance of Registering with the ICO
- The Law of Personalities
- The Network Effect: Why Contacts Matter in Business and in Life
- The New Distance Selling Rules-What You Need to Know
- The Rise of Synthetic Biology-Synbiobeta comes to Edinburgh
- 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 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 When and the Where: Knowing When to Seek Investment and Who to Approach
- 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
- Time to pay up! The new registration fees for data controllers
- To VC or not VC
- Top Tips: Dealing with your Bank
- Trade Mark Infringement: Too Confusing For Bimbos?
- Trade mark saints and sinners
- Trademarks
- 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?
- Unconscious Bias: Check Yourself
- Unofficial Olympic Advertising Sails Close To The Wind
- Unregistered Design Rights – Why You Shouldn’t Overlook Them
- Unregistered Design Rights – Why You Shouldn’t Overlook Them
- Unregulated Upset
- Update on LBTT Rates for Residential Property
- Update on U.S. Visas and Immigration
- Updating the Company’s Records Post-Investment
- Use Heads of Agreement for Main Deal Terms
- Voice of an angel confirms importance of IP
- Volunteering with Syrian Refugees
- 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 are you missing out on?
- What help is available to employers affected by Covid-19
- What is a Term Sheet?
- 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
- 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?
- 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!
- 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
- “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
- “Three-person embryo” law passed
- “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
- 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.
- Teaching Budding Business Angels How To Invest
- TECH NATION
- The EIS Market Continues to Grow
- There is no such thing as a Bad Idea
- Trusting Business Angels
- Ubuntu
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