Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is to significantly grow its revenue streams and strengthen its community impact programmes in Bristol following a £400,000 investment from city-based impact investor BBRC. The funding will enable the club to develop three new programmes, including expanding its existing work with refugees in the city,...
Accountancy group Grant Thornton UK’s South West corporate finance team celebrated a bumper end to 2024 after completing four deals in three months with a combined value of more than £150m. The Bristol-based team, which also covers Wales, advised transactions during the fourth quarter spanning private equity, mergers & acquisitions...
Bristol-based corporate finance advisory firm Shaw & Co has been selected as the only UK corporate finance merger & acquisition (M&A) advisory firm to join an international network of more than 12,000 accounting, tax, audit and legal professionals. Founded in Germany in 2003, ECOVIS International is active in 90-plus countries...
Regional audit, accountancy, tax and advisory firm Bishop Fleming is to expand its Bristol office – already the largest in its network – and open a base in Birmingham as it continues to grow. The firm, which has 40 partners and nearly 550 staff, will also relocate its Exeter...
The corporate tax team in South West accountancy firm PKF Francis Clark’s Bristol office has been strengthened with the appointment of a new senior manager. Corporation tax specialist Paul Rattew, pictured, joined from regional rival Milsted Langdon at the end of last year. PKF said he brought extensive experience of...
A Bristol visual effects firm that has worked on major natural history series such as BBC’s Earth and Netflix’s Our Oceans is looking ahead to further growth after receiving investment through a special creative industry fund. Moonraker VFX will use the £400,000 from the Creative UK-run scheme to continue its expansion into location-based...
Regional construction consultancy firm Kendall Kingscott has been acquired by international environmental, engineering and technical group RSK in a deal handled by the Bristol office of accountancy firm Bishop Fleming. Established in 1962, Kendall Kingscott is one of the leading inter-disciplinary construction consultancies across the South and South West, with...
Legal teams from Burges Salmon, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, have advised on three major cross-border deals spanning the learning tech and renewable energy sectors. The firm’s corporate and M&A team worked with UK-based learning technology company Think Learning on its acquisition by Totara Learning Group, a global leader...
A national competition to find Britain’s best-loved office dog has been launched by the design company behind many of Bristol’s top modern workplaces. Dog owners from across the UK can nominate their canine colleagues and share a photo of their pets at work – with a winner being chosen...
South West chartered accounting firm Albert Goodman has strengthened its Bristol base with the arrival of Dawn Baker as partner, practice protection and forensic services. The firm, which opened the office last year, described Dawn’s appointment as a significant hire that bolstered its service offerings in forensic accounting as...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week R&D tax consultancy Grantica managing director Shaun Bartle answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST Film you watched? The Founder. A great film about the origins of the...
Two of the biggest shareholders in Bristol-based café/bar chain Loungers have said they will vote against the £338m bid for the group announced this week by a US private equity company. Fortress Investment Group’s all-cash offer has been accepted by Loungers’ board and a number of major investors in...
Bristol-based corporate finance advisory firm Shaw & Co has advised the shareholders of leading UK life science research supplier AMSBIO on its sale to Dutch group Europa Biosite. Headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, AMSBIO is a premier provider of life science products and services with expertise in biospecimens, stem cells...
