Yvette Morcombe, a conveyancing solicitor with more than 20 years’ experience, has become a partner at specialist property law firm Hoffman Male and will run its newly-opened Bristol office. Yvette, pictured, has worked in residential and commercial property since qualifying as a solicitor in 1993. She has worked with...
Bristol headquartered law firm Osborne Clarke has expanded its international organisation by opening a base in Brussels with a 10-strong team. Osborne Clarke’s international organisation now has 14 offices in six jurisdictions. The team in the Belgian capital will be joined by members of its EU regulatory team. Initially,...
Bristol’s elected deputy mayor and Tory councillor Geoff Gollop has merged his accountancy practice with expanding regional firm Milsted Langdon. Under the tie up, which completed last Friday, all staff and clients from Geoff Gollop & Co have transferred to Milsted Langdon’s Bristol office at One Redcliff Street, with...
West firms are being urged to consider export opportunities in high-growth Gulf markets at an event in Bristol tomorrow. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the UK Government department that helps companies succeed in the global economy, is staging a UK-wide roadshow this month to introduce small and medium-sized enterprises...
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Former rugby league forward Lee Crooks has become the latest high-profile sportsman to join expanding health and protection specialists APRIL UK as a specialist sports protection advisor. The former Great Britain international, pictured, played for many of the country’s top rugby league outfits and was also general manager at Featherstone...
Business Doctors, the UK’s fastest-growing support service for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), has opened an operation covering Bristol plus Bath and Somerset. The business, which provides support and strategic advice to SME owners and directors, will be run by West businessman Richard Tidswell, pictured, who in recent years...
The achievements of some of the UK’s most forward-thinking young innovators will be showcased in Bristol next Thursday when the SETsquared student enterprise awards take place. The awards, which will be presented by Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts founder Nick Wheeler, who came up with the idea for his clothing empire...
Home Grown Hotels, the group behind The Pig chain of upmarket hotels, has bought Hunstrete House in Somerset, for £5m from von Essen Hotels founder Andrew Davis. The 18th century Georgian hotel has been closed for two years following the administration of the Bath-based von Essen group, which owned...
West accountants Bishop Fleming’s tax practice has been hailed as the best in any regional firm in the country. The accolade was announced at the 2013 LexisNexis Taxation Awards at a black-tie ceremony attended by 700 tax professionals at London's Hilton Park Lane Hotel. Bishop Fleming, which has a...
A combined team of corporate, banking, commercial and competition specialists from Bristol-based law firm Burges Salmon has advised the management of Crediton Dairy on their buy-out from Arla Foods. The buy-out team was led by two former Milk Link directors – chief executive Neil Kennedy and group finance director...
Award-winning children’s illustrator and artist Hannah Cumming has been chosen by Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT to paint its Gromit sculpture – part of the city’s Gromit Unleashed Art Trail. Hannah, who has been highly commended in the Macmillan Children’s Book Prize for two consecutive years, uses watercolours, ink, coloured...
Small business owners from across Britain will descend on Bristol in September to take part in one of Britain’s longest-running enterprise competitions. The Pitch, organised by BusinessZone.co.uk, started as a small event in Bristol in 2008, and has since grown into a nationwide competition that has supported hundreds of...
