Lawyers from Foot Anstey have advised tech-enabled services group Marston Holdings on its acquisition of one of the UK’s leading utilities field services agencies. The deal, which adds Grosvenor Services Group (GSG) to Marston Holdings’ portfolio of businesses, is the fourth acquisition handled by Foot Anstey, which has an...
Accountancy and business advisory firm Grant Thornton UK has strengthened its Bristol corporate finance advisory team with the promotion of Nick Jones to director. Nick, pictured, has worked at the firm for more than 10 years. Grant Thornton said his promotion reflected the continued growth of its corporate finance advisory...
Wealth management and professional services group Tilney Smith & Williamson has continued to invest in its Bristol office with a significant new appointment and a raft of promotions in its restructuring & recovery and advisory consulting teams. Experienced restructuring specialist Nigel Fox has joined as a director in a...
National audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK has promoted Richard Holm to partner in its Bristol-based VAT team to support its ambitious growth plans. Richard, pictured, leads the VAT division across the South West. He has more than 20 years’ experience in advising clients on the VAT implications...
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Michael Gove, is set to lead the line-up of speakers at this summer’s Big Tent Festival in Bristol. Mr Gove, who also has housing and community in his portfolio, has accepted an invitation to take part in the two-day event, which will give...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement was trailed as delivering some hope for beleaguered businesses as the post-pandemic recovery is being threatened by global price hikes. Bristol business leaders and financial experts welcomed some of the measures – but voiced concern that they did not go far enough to ease...
Lloyds Bank has added to its senior team in the South West with the appointment of regional director Amanda Dorel. Amanda, pictured, brings with her more than three decades of banking and commercial finance experience. In her new Bristol-based role she will work on enhancing Lloyds’ support for its...
The restructuring and insolvency team from the Bristol office of accountancy firm Milsted Langdon joined the clean-up the city’s harbour as part of an ongoing charity campaign. The six specialists took to the water despite overcast conditions and the odd downpour as part of the Clean up Bristol Harbour...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has strengthened its trust and estate team with the appointment of Claire Johnson as legal director. Claire’s appointment follows a growth in demand for the firm’s tax and succession planning expertise in the domestic and international sphere from private and corporate clients. Claire, pictured,...
Specialist corporate lawyer Nic Barker has joined GL Law to build on the Bristol firm’s corporate finance and mergers and acquisition services to small and medium-sized businesses across the South West. Nic, pictured, has experience across a range of sectors, including development finance, healthcare and owner-managed businesses. Having spent...
University of Bristol spin-out companies generate higher average returns on investment than those of any other UK university, a new study has found. The University Spin-out Report revealed that over 20 years the average UK spin-out generates around double the original capital raised. But Bristol’s spin-outs average 285%, putting the...
Bristol tech start-up Zero Point Motion has raised £2.58m in a seed funding round to build a state-of-the-art lab in the city as it develops a new kind of navigation and motion-sensing microchip. The investment also means that Zero Point Motion founder and CEO Dr Ying Lia Li, pictured,...
Acquisition-hungry Bristol businesses can find out how software robotics could help revolutionise their financial reporting at an online event hosted by accountancy group Tilney Smith & Williamson next week. The webinar on Wednesday, March 23, will explain the benefits of robotic process automation (RPA) and Tilney Smith & Williamson’s...
