The corporate team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon are celebrating advising on deals totalling more than £2.5bn last year, despite challenges posed by the pandemic. The firm’s corporate deals review for 2021 highlights its success in completing transactions across a wide range of sectors and for businesses...
More than 100 innovative businesses have been supported by Future Space, the science hub launched five years ago by UWE Bristol, creating 400-plus high-value jobs between them, a new report shows. One of four University Enterprise Zones (UEZ) set up across the country, Future Space aims to spark new...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised the shareholders of long-standing client, solar energy company Innova Energy, on its sale to investor Elm Trading. The sale to London-based Elm, whose interests include property and forestry as well as renewable energy, concludes a long-term strategy at London and Cheltenham-based Innova...
Bristol-headquartered communications consultancy JBP has launched a sub-brand dedicated to helping organisations “mobilise, generate and promote positive action” to address climate change. Called Climate Communications and operating as a subsidiary of the agency, it will be headed by JBP managing director Chris Lawrance, pictured, and will provide strategic and tactical...
National business organisation such as the CBI can play a crucial role in helping Bristol develop world-class clusters in high-potential sectors such as deeptech and creative tech, its director-general was told on a visit to the city. Tony Danker met a number of businesses in Bristol to hear about...
A legal expert on issues around decarbonisation and low carbon energy has been appointed by international law firm Osborne Clarke as energy and infrastructure partner based in its Bristol office. Hugo Lidbetter, pictured, brings more than 10 years’ experience advising domestic and international clients on policy and legal issues...
Bristol-headquartered energy group Ovo is to axe a quarter of its 6,200-strong workforce to protect the business from soaring costs and ongoing volatility in the market. The Bristol office of the firm, Britain’s third-biggest energy retailer, looks to have escaped the worst of the 1,700 job cuts. It will...
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...
A Bristol firm aiming to revolutionise the way indoor air quality is monitored has teamed up with the University of Bath on a ground-breaking research project. Atmo Technology has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the university’s Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering to partner on the work. The...
Bristol’s pioneering heat network system, a key element in the city achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, has received further investment to extend it to key development areas. The existing network – which uses a number of different methods of extracting waste heat, including from the Floating Harbour – already...
With the ongoing impact of the pandemic, climate change and Brexit, 2022 will be another tough year for many Bristol businesses. Phil Smith, managing director of Business West – the organisation behind Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative – looks at the needs and challenges for this...
Bristol’s pandemic-hit arts and cultural organisations are set to benefit from more than £2.5m of funding from the city council over the next four years. A new Cultural Investment Programme has been launched to provide grants and support to festivals, events, artists and the people they work with. Starting...
National law firm Bevan Brittan’s Bristol office has given a festive £15,000 boost to the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC). The donation is part of a total of £60,000 the firm has donated to local charities supported by its four offices across the UK. During the year Bevan...
