{"id":32607,"date":"2026-08-10T18:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32607"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:28:56","slug":"harper-macleod-in-legal-deal-with-rbs-accelerator-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32607","title":{"rendered":"Harper Macleod in legal deal with RBS accelerator \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RBS-Harper-Macleod-team.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198636 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RBS-Harper-Macleod-team.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198636 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RBS-Harper-Macleod-team.png 964w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RBS-Harper-Macleod-team-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RBS-Harper-Macleod-team-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RBS-Harper-Macleod-team-600x389.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>RBS and Harper Macleod team<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Royal Bank of Scotland and Harper Macleod have agreed a new partnership to help early stage companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Delivered through the Royal Bank Accelerator programme, it will assign a lawyer to the Glasgow and Edinburgh hubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Legal advice will also be delivered remotely through the Accelerator app to 2,300 community members across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The partnership will also see Harper Macleod supporting key events at the Accelerator hubs, such as for Glasgow Tech Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Bank\u2019s Accelerator programme is seeing significant growth, having announced partnerships with the University of Edinburgh and STAC in recent months, and has the ambition to support 5,000 Scottish startups in 2026 alone \u2013 more than in the last ten years combined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Darren Pirie, head of accelerator and partnerships at RBS, said:\u00a0\u201cFor many new entrepreneurs commercial agreements and legal blockers can be difficult, complex and costly to navigate. The core aim of our Accelerator programme has always been to remove the barriers to growth, through tailored support to startups and growing businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Jo Nisbet, a partner specialising in supporting entrepreneurs at Harper Macleod, said:\u00a0\u201cHarper Macleod has a long and proud history of working alongside Scotland\u2019s entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of their journey through to scale and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.6.0) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Harper #Macleod #legal #deal #RBS #accelerator #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RBS and Harper Macleod team Th&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[10252,266,265,110,18991,4258,18992,13172,18990],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}