Insights

15 September 2023

• Our people

A 26-strong team from Johnston Carmichael, including ten graduates from the Audit team, will lace up their boots for Scotland’s favourite mass participation charity event this Sunday. Grant Roger, Audit Partner, is taking on his sixth Kiltwalk alongside his three children, raising money for LGBT Youth Scotland. Here, he explains why taking on the Kiltwalk challenge is so important

07 September 2023

• Corporate Finance

Private equity (PE) investors will look to exit their investment at a point when, alongside the wider shareholders, they will make a substantial return on their investment. As discussed in the first blog in our series, founder shareholders and management should look to agree at the outset with their investment partners what the exit strategy looks like in terms of time horizon together with whether an exit is likely to be best achieved via a trade sale, selling to another private equity house or a flotation. Alan Hamilton, Corporate Finance Partner, explains further.

07 September 2023

For a number of years now, there has been real concern over abuse and boundary-pushing involving R&D tax relief, particularly amongst SMEs.