Lawyers from the Bristol office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) have advised North Somerset Council in its successful legal battle to acquire Weston-super-Mare’s historic Birnbeck Pier. The council is working with the Royal National Lifeboats Institution (RNLI) and Historic England to secure the preservation of the Grade...
National law firm Ashfords, which has an office in Bristol, has broken the £50m annual revenue barrier after growing by 3% over the past year. The £50.2m achieved in the 2022/23 financial year triggered a 7% firm-wide bonus at the firm, which employs more than 500 people. Profits increased...
National law firm Foot Anstey has strengthened its energy and infrastructure sector team in Bristol by appointing new legal directors Laura Rajanah and Adam Weatherley. Laura Rajanah has dedicated 15 years of her career to the energy sector, focusing on the real estate elements associated with projects. She has...
Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has appointed three new Bristol-based partners among a raft of senior promotions across its UK offices. The Bristol trio are Ronan Lowney, who advises on tax aspects of transactions, corporate finance team member Alex Fergus and Louise Norman, the firm’s Deputy General...
A team from national law firm Clarke Willmott’s Bristol office has advised a long-term client on a major healthcare deal involving the UK’s largest medical testing company of its kind. The Clarke Willmott lawyers worked with health assessment and laboratory testing business Inuvi on its acquisition of Express Diagnostics....
Bristol-based national law firm Burges Salmon has strengthened its standing as one of the few law firms specialising in the fast-growing vertical farming sector by advising on a major investment deal. The firm’s corporate group worked with sustainability-led alternative funding manager Foresight Group on its financial support package for...
The Bristol office of national law firm Bevan Brittan has selected city-based 1625 Independent People as its charity for the next two years. Bevan Brittan will support the charity, which works with young people who are homeless, leaving care or at risk of homelessness, in two ways – through...
Two Bristol family lawyers have started their own practice specialising in advising non-married couples on separation, wills and inheritance disputes. Roskilly and Mills has been launched by Emily Roskilly and Lucia Mills, pictured, to provide specialist advice to cohabiting couples pre- and post-separation with what they are calling “a...
National law firm Foot Anstey, which has an office in Bristol, has maintained its organic growth with the addition of two new partners. Paolo Sbuttoni, a technology, data privacy and commercial lawyer, has joined from Baker McKenzie in Hong Kong, while a real estate disputes lawyer Kate New re-joins...
The Legal Battle of the Bands, organised by Bristol Law Society (BLS), raised £2,560 for SARSAS, the charity providing support for people affected by rape or any kind of sexual assault or abuse. The event at The Fleece, attracted more than 200 people, with Out of Office winning the coveted...
Two Bristol-headquartered law firms have again been ranked as the world’s second and third most-active advisers on clean energy deals – although this year they have swapped places. TLT is in second place for merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the Clean Energy Legal League Tables 2023 – taking...
The Wave, the pioneering inland surfing lake on Bristol’s doorstep, has appointed national law firm Foot Anstey to support it by advising on a range of legal matters. The first of its kind when it opened in 2019, The Wave was born out of a passion for technology, nature...
Commercial property lawyer Mark Forsey has joined national firm Ashfords’ real estate team as it expands its investment and asset management practice. Mark, pictured, arrives as a senior associate from Stephens Scown in Exeter, where he spent 12 years in a number of roles. He has a wealth of...
