A new round of grants for creative freelancers has been launched by the West of England Combined Authority, with Bristol-based cartoonist Camille Aubrey becoming the first recipient. Camille is one of 60 freelancers and workers in creative businesses across the region set to get a cash boost of between...
A €100m cross-border acquisition by UK global games entertainment group Team17 has been completed with the help of accountancy firm PKF Francis Clark’s Bristol office. Team17, best-known for the Worms franchise, The Escapists and Overcooked, snapped up leading German-based simulation games developer Astragon Entertainment as it continues its rapid...
National accountancy group Smith & Williamson, which has a Bristol office, is to partner with fintech group Innovate Finance to provide its members with professional and financial services insights to help them grow and develop their businesses. Under the year-long tie-up, the two will collaborate on a series of...
Dealmakers from accountancy firm Deloitte’s Bristol-based mergers & acquisitions team completed a record number 17 deals last year – four of them in just three weeks during December. The total number, with a collective value of just under £2bn, was almost double that of 2020, when the team completed...
Regional accountancy firm Milsted Langdon, which has an office in Bristol, has become the latest business to support the Menopause Workplace Pledge. The move follows latest statistics showing that almost 900,000 women in the UK quit their jobs due to the menopause. Milsted Langdon said that, while it was...
Bristol firms are being invited to join Children’s Hospice South West’s Business Club as it aims to raise £90,000 from the initiative to support it in helping make a difference to young people with life-limiting illnesses and their families. The charity needs around £11m a year to run its...
Investments by the Bristol team of growth finance group BGF passed the £100m mark for the first time last year as it continued its strong run of funding ambitious businesses. The team injected £115m of equity into firms in 2021 – a 72% increase on 2020’s total and more...
More than nine in 10 of mid-market businesses in the South West have adopted hybrid or remote working as a way of overcoming the impact of the pandemic – but many are struggling to make it a success, according to a new survey. Research by accountancy firm Grant Thornton,...
National law firm Clarke Willmott, which has an office in Bristol, has become the first client-servicing solicitors’ practice to gain accreditation for best practice in the credit management industry. The CICMQ quality accreditation by the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM) provides formal recognition for the firm’s commitment to...
Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon’s head of private wealth has been named as one of the UK’s leading advisers for the second time in two years. Beatrice Puoti, pictured, appears in the latest eprivateclient 50 Most Influential table, which recognises the key figures in the sector who provide the...
Bristol-based specialist manufacturing and engineering firm Avon Group has appointed Charles Toosey as finance director to support its ambitious growth plans. Charles, pictured, has high-level experience in financial management and business consulting having joined Avon Group from London-based aluminium manufacturer Alvance, where he has spent the past two years...
The Bristol-based Islamic finance team at national law firm Foot Anstey has advised Saudi-based investment management firm Sidra Capital on its £43.6m acquisition of a major head office building occupied by a subsidiary drinks giant Coca-Cola. The 122,000 sq ft building, pictured, in Uxbridge, Middlesex, is let to Coca-Cola...
Nearly three-quarters of tech firm executives in the South West put purpose before profits while just under 80% prioritise relationships over success, according to a new survey. The region also boasts a far higher number of female tech entrepreneurs than the national average – 36% against 22% for the...
