Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has appointed a new partner to its UK-wide banking and finance team, further cementing its position as a leader in sector. Mark Thomas, pictured, joins from full-service global law firm Squire Patton Boggs, where he headed its structured finance practice for nine-and-a-half years. TLT...
Businesses are being encouraged by regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon to carry on preparing for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax in spite of the announcement of a two-year delay. Milsted Langdon, which has five offices – including one in Bristol – said the further changes to the...
Business West, the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce, has appointed Emma Carter as its new membership director. Emma, pictured, started work at 16 after the Thames Valley Chambers of Commerce visited her school to talk about modern apprenticeships. At 18 she was selling memberships for the chamber and...
Regional law firm Michelmores has strengthened its real estate and private wealth practices with the appointment of two highly regarded partners. Dhana Sabanathan joins the firm, which has offices in Bristol, Exeter and London, as a partner in the tax, trusts & succession team – part of the firm’s private wealth group...
Monday January 9 Trading announcements: Intermediate Capital Group, Cairn Homes Tuesday January 10 Interim: Games Workshop Group Trading announcement: RS Group Economic announcements: RICS housing market survey, Retail sales Wednesday January 11 Trading announcements: Grafton Group, Vistry Group, Sainsbury (J), PageGroup, Barratt Developments, JD Sports Fashion, Ten Entertainment Group Thursday January 12...
The achievements of business figures from Bristol along with those from the city’s not-for-profit and cultural sectors have been recognised in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list. Louise Mitchell, pictured, chief executive of iconic live entertainment venue Bristol Beacon, has been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
Channel 4 is set to expand its Bristol creative hub following the government’s U-turn over controversial plans to privatise the broadcaster. Culture Secretary Michele Donelan yesterday confirmed that the sale – a flagship policy of her predecessor Nadine Dorries – was being abandoned. Instead, Channel 4 will be allowed...
Bristol will have one of the fastest-growing employment rates of any UK city later this year when the country emerges from recession, according to a new report. Research carried out for law firm Irwin Mitchell shows Bristol’s economy is expected to achieve annual growth of 0.7% by the fourth...
Confidence among South West businesses continued to rise in December after a surprise recovery the previous month – with firms ending the year in a rare upbeat mood. The latest monthly Business Barometer from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking reveals firms reported higher confidence in their own business prospects month-on-month, up 15 percentage points at 34%. Taken...
The private equity team at national law firm Foot Anstey, which has an office in Bristol, ended a successful 2022 by advising on another major cross-border acquisition. The team supported fast-growing mid-market private equity firm Stanley Capital Partners (SCP) on its takeover of US specialist analytics firm Commonwealth Informatics...
Accountancy giant EY is to open a business research innovation technology and engineering (BRiTE) hub in Bristol to help boost the South West’s fast-growing FinTech sector. The hub, in EY’s Bristol office in The Paragon, aims to ramp up capabilities in financial services design, data analytics and engineering and...
Bristol-based renewable energy software company Sennen has appointed Mike Young as a senior consultant. Mike, pictured, first met the Sennen team when he was operations manager at London Array, the 175-turbine wind farm 20km off the Kent coast. The project was the first to deploy Sennen’s highly specialised offshore wind...
Water2business, the specialist retailer co-owned by Bristol Water, has extended its partnership with UK-wide café chain Coffee#1 for a further two years. Having set up the agreement two years ago, Nailsea-based Water2business will continue to provide water and wastewater services to 84 of Coffee#1’s 100 sites. The firm’s dedicated...
