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.

R&B farm purchase will provide a supply of barley to planned ‘green’ distillery at Machrihanish, and existing Isle of Raasay distillery.

Sean Morris, Legal Manager at Vialex sister company, Navigator Law, looks at how Coronavirus is likely to remain a data protection headache for UK businesses in the year ahead.

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

Vialex is delighted to have acted as advisers to the principal shareholders of Aptus Systems Limited (t/a Spoonfed), in the sale of the Glasgow-based catering software company, to the Michigan-based, US technology firm, 365 Retail Markets.

Lawyers are adopting new technology at a faster pace than ever, and AI is the next step. Vialex paralegal, Coral Wesley, says law firms should nonetheless consider new technologies carefully, in order to ensure a positive impact on both the business and client experience.

Attitudes are changing towards doing things differently within the commercial property sector, which can only be good for the planet, says Katie Corrigan, Vialex head of real estate.

Vialex CEO, Keith Anderson writes about the challenges of being ready to make the best of difficult times. Viewing change as a constant we will be living with, he believes we should embrace it to succeed, or fear it and fail.

Writing in Daily Business, Vialex CEO, Keith Anderson, suggests that employers need to engage fully with their employees over changes to work patterns.

Vialex is proud to support longstanding Legal Counsel Services client, Marlow Foods – producer of the successful Quorn brand; and we extend our congratulations to Marlow’s parent company, the Philippines-based Monde Nissin, which recently completed the largest ever IPO in that market, raising around $1bn and debuting its shares on the Philippines Stock Exchange in June.

Alan Sutherland, head of employment law at Vialex/Navigator, looks at the legal issues to be considered by employers preparing to bring staff back into the workplace.

Legal technologist and Vialex legal adviser, Zoe Fowlie looks at the impact the pandemic has had on accelerating the adoption of new ways of working and sees a bright future where fully embedding these changes, including appropriately applied technology, can deliver benefits to both internal efficiencies and enhanced client service and experience levels.