WEALTHY private investors' willingness to back fledgling Scottish companies "dipped significantly" last year, law firm Pinsent Masons has concluded from an analysis of Enterprise Investment Scheme take-up.
Pinsent Masons highlights a "disappointing" 18% drop in the number of Enterprise Investment Scheme authorisation forms issued by HM Revenue & Customs' Small Company Enterprise Centre to Scottish businesses, from 290 in 2010 to 237 in 2011. The number issued in 2009 had, as in 2010, been 290.
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