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News & Insights from the Changing Legal Landscape

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News & Insights from the Changing Legal Landscape

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Prioritising diversity brings benefits

March 28, 2024
Katie Corrigan, head of real estate, assesses the potential benefits for both business, and wider society of greater diversity within business leadership positions.
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Material questions raised over RAAC

September 18, 2023
Writing about the issues with RAAC currently facing public and commercial property, Head of Real Estate, Katie Corrigan says that commercial property transactions are now likely to include extra checks on construction methods.

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Vialex adds senior legal adviser to real estate team

May 24, 2023
Suzanne Sutherland brings wide ranging commerical property sector experience, in addition to experience dealing with the Scottish aspects of UK-wide, cross-border real estate matters.

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Lettings regulation short of a solution

May 2, 2023
Katie Corrigan, Vialex senior legal director and Head of Real Estate, looks at concerns surrounding the proposed implementation of short-term let regulations within Edinburgh, and their potential effect on the tourism sector and wider business.

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Commercial leases in Scotland and automatic continuation

November 25, 2022
Changes may be coming to aspects of commercial lease law in Scotland. Vialex Senior Legal Adviser Eloise Robb looks at proposals to replace the common law principle of tacit relocation with a modern statutory code of automatic continuation, and why this could be welcome news for commercial property landlords and tenants alike.

Transparency rule puts owners to the test

August 18, 2022
Failure to comply with new legislation on property and land ownership which is now required as part of The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 can prove costly. Vialex legal adviser Scott Paterson looks at some of the basic principles or tests which everyone should know.
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Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) goes live

August 4, 2022
The Register of Overseas Entities which went live on 1 August 2022, is part of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 implemented in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It represents a significant additional step as part of wider efforts to increase corporate transparency in the UK, to tackle the opaque nature of foreign ownership, and support efforts to tackle money laundering in the UK property market.
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Hospitality still needs a helping hand

June 27, 2022
In an article for Daily Business magazine, Katie Corrigan, Vialex senior legal director and head of real estate, says that controlling inflation by curbing spending must not cause further damage to the hard-pressed hospitality sector

Vialex adds to real estate team

April 8, 2022
Growing levels of commercial property work leads to the hiring of a Senior Legal Adviser and a Legal Executive into the real estate team.

Vialex provides real estate legal support to Cefetra in acquisition of two Scottish based grain stores

February 21, 2022
Cefetra, a longstanding Vialex client and one of the UK’s largest traders of grains and animal feed raw materials, has completed a £7m deal which increases by 140,000 tonnes its grain storage capacity across two new sites in East Lothian and the Borders.

Vialex assists client R&B Distillers on farm purchase – bringing first new farm distillery to Campbeltown in over 140 years a step closer

February 14, 2022
R&B farm purchase will provide a supply of barley to planned 'green' distillery at Machrihanish, and existing Isle of Raasay distillery.

Vialex advises Highland Coast Hotels in funding to support NC500 hotels

January 20, 2022
Funding for Highland Coast Hotels from Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) will support upgrades to hotels and tourism and employment opportunities in the region.
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