Deals

TLT has advised clean energy investor Blackfinch on the acquisition of 12 operational onshore wind projects, adding to its growing renewable energy portfolio. The wind projects, located across England and Scotland, were acquired from Harmony Energy and whilst there were some private wire elements, t

DWF advised on 68 corporate deals in the first half of the financial year, compared with 61 deals a year earlier, the firm has said. Technology remained DWF's most active business sector with 20 deals advised on but there was also a marked increase in the number of deals completed in the energy and

Dentons has advised Charles Ritchie's Testamentary Trust, the majority shareholder of global energy services engineering business Score Group, on its £120 million sale to private equity firm SCF Partners. Founded in 1982 by Charles Ritchie, Score is headquartered in the Aberdeenshire town of P

Marlowe plc, a specialist services group focused on developing companies which assure regulatory compliance and safety, has announced its acquisition of Glasgow-based Law At Work (Holdings) Limited, for an initial consideration of £6.3 million. Established in 2001, LAW is a national provider o

DWF's Scottish corporate team have advised the majority shareholders of Partick Thistle Football Club Limited on the sale of around 55 per cent of the shares in Partick Thistle to Three Black Cats Limited, a company wholly owned by Partick Thistle fan and Euromillions winner, Colin Weir. Paul Pignat

Burness Paull advised on the corporate and capital-markets aspects of UK-based independent oil & gas company Savannah Petroleum plc’s deal to acquire the assets of Seven Energy in Nigeria, which involved a $125 million equity fundraising. Chris Gotts and Edward Hunter (corporate & capi

DWF's Scottish corporate team has advised the corporate training platform backed by private equity fund Aliter Capital on the acquisition of Sponge UK Limited. This is the twelfth deal DWF has supported Aliter with since it was founded in 2016. This acquisition will see Sponge, a custom digital lear

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Pinsent Masons has advised Tesco on a significant project to source electricity directly from Scottish renewables projects – the biggest of its type ever completed by a retailer in the UK. As a member of the RE100 group of companies, Tesco has made a commitment to source 100 per cent of electr

Glasgow firm Macdonald Henderson recently advised East Kilbride-based pharmaceutical wholesaler Target Healthcare Group on a seven-figure funding package from HSBC UK. The firm is using the funding package, led by HSBC relationship director Grant Bett, to boost its domestic and international busines

MacRoberts has helped win an £18 million investment for emerging Scottish energy company Together Energy. The deal, which has been secured from Warrington Borough Council, will see the council take a 50 per cent shareholding in the business. The council was attracted to the Glasgow-based compa

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s banking and finance team has reported another strong year for deals, with the value of transactions rising by 10 per cent (£13.4 billion) in the 2019 financial year to 30 April. The team completed 167 deals with a combined value of £145.4bn, up from 162 de

MBM Commercial has advised Immense Simulations on its Series A funding, taking the lead role in drawing up the key agreements and helping project manage the deal. Partner Kenny Mumford and associate Craig Edward within the corporate group guided Immense through each stage of the round, from the due

TLT has advised Par Equity, a Scotland-headquartered venture capital firm, on a significant investment in Belfast-based data software company, Datactics. Par Equity facilitates investment in smaller companies with high growth potential with a particular focus on innovative companies doing things in

Thorntons has advised G.S. Brown (Precision Engineers) Limited in its transition to employee ownership.