South West law firm Foot Anstey has recruited Mark Millar, a former general counsel and company secretary at the AA, as a Bristol-based partner in its expanding corporate and commercial team. The move means Mark, pictured, returns to private practice after 15 years leading in-house teams as general counsel...
Bristol-based national law firm Burges Salmon has maintained its sector-leading trainee retention rate by offering positions to all but one of its 27 final-year trainee solicitors when they qualify in September. The 96% rate is much higher than the industry average of just under 80%. Last year Burges Salmon...
Shareholders in leading organic children’s clothing maker Frugi have used expertise from regional law firm Ashfords and the Bristol office of national accountancy group BDO in their sale of a majority stake in the business. Frugi, which designs, manufactures and sells sustainably-sourced organic cotton apparel and accessories for babies,...
Energy sector experts from Bristol law firm Burges Salmon have advised National Australia Bank (NAB) and Santander UK on the £86m financing of a portfolio of onshore wind projects across England. The Burges Salmon team was led by banking partner Nathan Curtis and provided a wide range of legal...
Daredevil staff at Bristol law firm Meade King are this weekend taking part in a sponsored skydive to raise essential funds for a mental health charity that supports the city’s young people. Solicitor Sana Sadiq and legal secretary Olivia Miles, who both work in the firm’s corporate and commercial...
This week, BrandSoup has been mostly catching up on back episodes of Suits. It’s as reliable an insight into New York legal practice as it is an accurate profile of the Duchess of Sussex. But it’s fun, there are some great lines and everyone is fabulously well dressed! One...
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 Alex Hall, a partner at Bristol law firm Meade King, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Final Destination. My son loved...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has advised on another major energy deal – this time the acquisition of one of the UK’s largest energy storage schemes. It worked with Eelpower, an independent provider of flexible energy services, to enable it to buy the recently-completed 20MW Rock Farm scheme in Shropshire,...
Lawyers based in the Bristol office of regional firm Ashfords have advised Route 1 International – described as the Tinder of the legal talent industry – on a £275,000 seed funding round. London-based Route 1 International – in which Ashfords itself invested two years ago – uses marketplace technology...
Annual turnover at South West law firm Foot Anstey has increased by 13% to £43.3m with growth in its core industry sectors particularly strong. The firm, which has offices in Bristol, Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth, Truro, Southampton and London, said the latest results means it has grown by 80% over...
Lawyers at international firm DAC Beachcroft, which has a large office in Bristol, are to share a bonus payout of around £7.7m – 40% more than last year – on the back of strong annual profit and revenue growth. The firm, which said 70% of staff would receive a...
Burges Salmon, the Bristol-based law firm, has run its Bright Sparks work experience programme for the sixth consecutive year – increasing the intake this time from 24 to 28 students. Bright Sparks, which is for young people aged 15 to 17, forms part of the firm’s commitment to PRIME...
The Bristol office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has continued its lead role in the professional audio equipment sector by advising on the management buyout of a high-performance loudspeaker system firm. Buckinghamshire-based Marti Audio specialises in the design and manufacture of high-performance loudspeaker systems for music...
