More than 100 firms in Bristol and across the West of England have signed up to a regional Good Employment Charter which pledges to pay staff a Real Living Wage and clamp down on the use of zero-hours contracts. Introduced by Metro Mayor Dan Norris as part of a...
Experienced private client partner Suzanna Harvey has been promoted by Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon to head of its private wealth sector. Suzanna, pictured, specialises in tax, trusts, immigration and estate planning for international clients – both UK resident and non-resident – and provides tax advice to a...
Bristol-based advisers from the corporate finance arm of national accountancy group Evelyn Partners and law firm Clarke Willmott have worked on the sale of one of the UK’s leading specialist fire safety companies. Indepth Hygiene Services, which provides nationwide coverage from its base in the London Borough of Sutton,...
The Bristol office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has provided its services pro-bono to a city-based charity that works to transform lives and the environment by broadening access to cycling. WBD intellectual property (IP) team partner James Love helped Life Cycle register its brand assets with...
International legal practice Osborne Clarke has continued to expand the corporate team in its Bristol office with the appointment of Louise Grzasko as a partner. Louise, pictured, returns to Osborne Clarke after more than six years with Cheltenham-based BPE Solicitors, where she held the position of partner and head...
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 Fiona O’Kane, a partner and head of international law firm Womble Bond Dickinson’s Bristol office, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched: The Banshees of Inisherin....
The corporate team from the Bristol office of national law firm Clarke Willmott has advised on a deal aimed at shaking up the UK snacks sector. It worked with the venture fund of Blagdon-based organic dairy business Yeo Valley on its “significant contribution” to the acquisition of UK snacks...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT, the leader of its future energy and real estate team and rival Burges Salmon’s corporate responsibility head have been nominated in an awards scheme that focuses on leadership in driving forward the diversity and equality agenda. TLT, which employs round 1,200 people across its...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby is to continue its support for Gloucestershire Cricket for a further three years after agreeing a new sponsorship deal with the club. Under the partnership, which began in 2020, Gloucestershire will provide Barcan+Kirby with opportunities for corporate hospitality, networking and sponsor events at its Seat...
Legal website RollOnFriday has named Bristol-headquartered Burges Salmon as the country’s best law firm to work at for the second year in a row – with one employee praising it for being “run by humans . . . not psychopaths”. It also won the title in 2017 having been joint...
Confidence among the South West’s small businesses has plunged to the lowest level since the country emerged from Covid lockdowns, according to a new survey. The latest quarterly confidence report from the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) reveals that fears of inflation, falling consumer demand and the general cost...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has continued to expand its South West construction practice, securing further appointments to advise a wide variety of professional firms in the sector. Clients now include architects, landscape architects, interior designers, planning consultants, structural engineers, transport consultants, building surveyors, quantity surveyors and...
Teams from across the Bristol’s business community will swap the workplace for the rugby field to try to raise money for Bristol Bears Community Foundation. Staff from the Foundation – which supports communities across in the South West through programmes tackling education, participation, health, and inclusion – have teamed...
