Landing a job at an organisation whose sole purpose is to promote, protect and represent the interests of the scotch whisky industry sounds like a dream come true for any lover of the so-called water of life. But, as Alan Park, director of legal affairs at the Scotch Whisky Association, points out, the chances of him getting to sample the good stuff in the line of duty are slim to none.
A month on from the Brexit vote and Prime Minister Theresa May appears to have brought a little calm to the wounded markets. The leaders of Germany and France may be no more enamoured with the idea of the UK exiting the EU than nearly half of our citizens are, but May’s meetings with them […]
If there’s one thing ITV group legal director and company secretary Andrew Garard thrives on, it is a challenge. So when the media company’s then-executive chairman Michael Grade tried to tempt him away from Dewey & LeBoeuf legacy firm LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae just a year into his partnership there, he jumped at the chance
Scotland-headquartered Maclay Murray & Spens posted a 23 per cent drop in net profit and 12 per cent drop in average profit per equity partner (PEP) in 2015/16, despite turnover being up by 3 per cent.
The clear division between Scotland and the rest of mainland Britain in the Brexit vote will not immediately lead to another vote on Scotland’s position within the UK. According to law firm leaders north of the border, the fact that the UK will now begin the process of leaving the EU despite Scotland voting overwhelmingly […]
The clear division between Scotland and the rest of mainland Britain in the Brexit vote will not immediately lead to another vote on Scotland’s position within the UK.
For Carmel Comiskey, director of commercial law at Visa Europe, the route to seniority has not been an easy one
The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of the word mentor is ‘an experienced and trusted adviser’. In the popular imagination that has come to mean a relationship where someone very senior imparts wisdom to someone very junior. But does it have to be that way?
Oil price volatility has hardly been out of the headlines in the past year, but for those operating in the oil and gas sector watching the figure rise and fall is simply a fact of life.
Scottish firm Harper Macleod has reported a 16 per cent rise in turnover for the 2015/16 financial year, with the figure increasing from £22.1m to £25.7m. This is the first full-year results since Harper Macleod took over private client practice Bird Semple and represents a return to form for the firm, which essentially had flat […]
Edinburgh-headquartered firm Shepherd & Wedderburn has long considered local oil exploration and development company Cairn Energy, which is listed on the FTSE 250 index, to be a trophy client.
Negotiating billion-dollar acquisitions through a raft of Nigerian oil and gas laws and facilitating energy solutions in the face of $30 oil are par for the course for Oando’s Ngozi Okonkwo