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Throughout this year’s LGBT+ History Month, Shepherd & Wedderburn have produced a series of articles to celebrate LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to the production of film and cinema from ‘behind the lens’. Zachary Stewart, Trainee in our Banking & Finance team, has written the final article on the visionary sister duo behind The Matrix, the Wachowskis.
Wednesday, 8 March, will mark International Women’s Day, and the campaign theme this year is #EmbraceEquity. Are equal opportunities enough? In this article, Ella Jordan, Trainee in our property and infrastructure team, asks is equality enough?
The aim of LGBT+ History Month 2023’s theme, ‘Behind the Lens’, is to shine a light on and celebrate the contribution of members of the LGBT+ Community to television, cinema and film. Throughout the month, members of Shepherd and Wedderburn’s LGBTA+ Focus Group will produce a series of articles highlighting an individual’s contributions, inspirations, and their links to the LGBT+ community, from ‘Behind the Lens’.
Olivia Greener, trainee solicitor, has focused on another inspirational figure of the LGBT+ Community: award winning director, screenwriter and producer, Angela Robinson.
Throughout LGBT+ History Month, members of Shepherd and Wedderburn’s LGBTA+ Focus Group will produce a series of articles reflecting on the ‘Behind the Lens’ theme, with each article highlighting an individual’s contributions, inspirations and their links to the LGBT+ community. Michelle Clement, Digital marketing manager, has written the first article focusing on the Italian film director, Luca Guadagnini.
A cross-unit team at Shepherd & Wedderburn has been instrumental in assisting US inward investor Mangata Edge with concluding investment documentation for a significant manufacturing facility, announced by Scottish Enterprise.
Andrew Blain has been re-elected by the partners of the firm to serve a second term as Managing Partner of Shepherd and Wedderburn from 1 May 2023.
Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Corporate Finance team has advised Douglas and Iain Anderson, the joint managing directors of specialist plant hire company GAP Group Limited, in the sale of their separately owned vehicle hire company to international hire giant SIXT.