Annual global revenues have risen by 15% to €195m (£141m) at Bristol-headquartered international law firm Osborne Clarke, it announced this week. The figures, for the 2014/15 financial year, mean the firm’s international revenues have grown by more than 60% over the past three years. UK revenues increased by 9%...
The South West’s biggest free business event gets underway today with organisers saying it looks set to be a flyaway success. Up to 3,000 delegates are expected to attend the Business Showcase South West 2015, which returns to returns to Bristol’s Colston Hall today and tomorrow. Star attractions include...
Bristol law firm VWV has appointed partner Ben Holt to its commercial litigation team. Ben, who joins from rival Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office, specialises in advising on complex disputes for major corporates and financial institutions. He has represented leading lenders in multi-million pound claim portfolios involving fraud and professional...
Bristol-headquartered law firms Osborne Clarke and Burges Salmon are in the running for some of the industry’s top awards in what has been described as “unquestionably the biggest night of the year for the legal profession”. The firms have been shortlisted in The Lawyer Awards, viewed as the most-respected...
Anticipation is building with less than a week to go before delegates gather for the region’s biggest free business event. Organisers hope to welcome up to 3,000 delegates to Business Showcase South West 2015 next Thursday and Friday. Star attractions include keynote speakers ‘Millionaires’ Mentor’ Bev James and Levi...
Osborne Clarke, the Bristol-headquartered international law firm, has promoted five associate directors to its partnership, taking its total number of partners to more than 200 for the first time. The new partners include Simon Hancock, pictured right, who joined the firm in 2009 as a projects lawyer in its...
National law firm Bond Dickinson, which has a major office in Bristol, has been re-appointed to insurance giant AIG Europe’s legal panel following a review of its legal services. Bond Dickinson will advise AIG Europe, one of the largest companies specialising in the European business insurance market, on corporate,...
TLT, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, has promoted six associates to partners in its commercial services and banking & lender services groups. The promotions, in its Bristol, London, Belfast and Manchester offices, take the number of partners at the firm to over 100 for the first time. The move...
Organisers of next month’s Business Showcase South West have come up with five compelling reasons for business people to attend what will be the biggest of its kind in the region The event, on May 14 and 15 at Bristol’s Colston Hall, will celebrate the best in innovation, creativity...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has appointed six new partners, half them former trainees with the firm. The move takes Burges Salmon’s total number of partners to 81, reflecting its continued growth across a number of sectors and practice areas. The new partners are: Lloyd James, who becomes...
Anticipation is building ahead of next month’s Business Showcase South West 2015 and firms are being warned not to miss out on unparalleled sponsorship, exhibition stands and free delegate passes for what will be the region’s biggest business show this year. The two-day staged at Bristol’s Colston Hall on May...
Bristol executive Search firm Moon Consulting and Bristol Business News have teamed up again to seek the opinions of business leaders across the South West and find out more about the diverse attitudes and leadership abilities of the region’s boardrooms. The South West Board Effectiveness Survey 2015 enables board directors...
Regional law firm Foot Anstey has made a number of promotions including nine senior associates, four of them in its Bristol office, and four new legal directors. Alex Cross (commercial), Catherine Haugh (dispute resolution) and Sarah Hale and Zahir Nayani (commercial property) are among the new senior associates. Employment...
