Sixteen cutting-edge Bristol start-ups will promote their innovative technologies to an audience of influential investors and business leaders at a special event later this month. Now in its 19th year, Tech-Xpo is the flagship pitch, demo and connect showcase for the University of Bristol’s acclaimed tech incubator SETsquared Bristol. Eleven of the 16 companies are...
Bristol-headquartered independent UK law firm Burges Salmon’s corporate team has advised on a seed funding deal that will enable a nanotech start-up to scale-up its green ammonia technologies. Nium will use the $3m (£2.34m) investment to assembling its first small-scale, modular, low energy consumption ammonia reactors. Known as ‘minions’,...
Regional law firm Michelmores has appointed Noel Beale as a partner in its commercial team as it maintains its strong growth. Noel, pictured, offers expert advice on competition and economic regulatory matters to clients nationally and internationally. He has more than 25 years’ experience advising on competition law and...
The planning team in transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson’s Bristol office has helped it earn the title of the best in the UK in its sector. Judges at the 2023 Planning Awards praised the firm for “the breadth of legal work” and noted that “the issues involved across...
The Bristol office of growth finance group BGF has made a £15.5m investment in Troy UK, the country’s largest independent network for industrial and engineering supplies, with legal advice on the deal from the corporate team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon. Other Bristol professionals involved in the...
National legal and professional services business Knights has hired three partners and a senior associate in its Bristol office just five months after arriving in the city through its acquisition of long-established independent law firm Meade King. Among the new joiners is Marti Burgess, who is well known in...
Lawyers in the Bristol office of international legal firm Osborne Clarke have advised on a major deal to develop green hydrogen projects in the UK as interest in the alternative fuel source continues its rapid growth. The team advised London-headquartered sustainability-led investor Foresight on its involvement in a new electrolytic...
Full-service national law firm Shakespeare Martineau has added to its Bristol-based private client team with the appointment of solicitor Olga Washington. With almost five years’ experience, Olga – who has joined the firm from WLS Solicitors – specialises in a full range of private client services, including the creation and...
The strength of the South West’s FinTech ecosystem is to be analysed for the first time as part of a new project involving businesses, public sector organisations and higher education establishments. The work will be led and delivered by Whitecap Consulting, the regional strategy consultancy with a base in...
Taste of the West, the UK’s largest independent regional food group, has launched a partnership with regional accountancy group Bishop Fleming and law firm Trowers & Hamlins to help raise the profile of the thriving South West food and drink sector. The firms will act as Taste of the...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has appointed economic crime and compliance specialist Ben Cooper as a partner. Ben, pictured, left, with TLT head of financial services Andrew Lyon, now heads the firm’s national economic crime compliance team, working closely with its financial services regulatory, investigations and disputes practice. TLT said his...
Lawyers from international legal firm Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have advised on the multi-million pound acquisition of a four-star London hotel. The team worked with Dalata Hotel Group on its £53.4m purchase of the Apex Hotel London Wall, pictured, from Apex Hotels. The 89-bedroom hotel, with a gym, ground...
National law firm Ashfords has continued to grow the banking and finance expertise in its Bristol office with the appointment of Melissa George as a restructuring & insolvency partner. Melissa joins after more than 21 years at Thrings, where for the past 10 years she was a partner specialising...
