Two of Bristol’s largest law firms have secured places on a new government legal panel responsible for billions of pounds of work in areas ranging from real estate to procurement and litigation. Burges Salmon and TLT have been appointed to the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Legal Services Panel along...
Global events group Fortem International, which has its UK headquarters in Bristol, has sold five rural and leisure trade shows in a deal handled by the city office of national law firm Clarke Willmott. The portfolio, which includes Farm Business Innovation, Family Attraction Expo, Country House Business Innovation, Leisure...
The Bristol office of national law firm Ashfords has appointed Ian Manners as a partner to head its business risk & regulation team as it looks to expand its offer to clients. Ian, pictured, will lead a team advising on compliance and risk issues as well as investigations and...
Experts in the Bristol office of national law firm Foot Anstey have advised London-based fintech start-up Nester on what is believed to be the first UK peer-to-peer Islamic finance fintech deal. Bristol-based partner Imam Qazi and associate Leena Payyappilly of Foot Anstey’s Islamic Finance team advised on all legal...
National law firm Bevan Brittan’s Bristol office has given a festive £15,000 boost to the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC). The donation is part of a total of £60,000 the firm has donated to local charities supported by its four offices across the UK. During the year Bevan...
Insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 has appointed Bristol-based insolvency litigation specialist Charlotte May as its new regional chair. Charlotte, pictured, is an associate director for South West and Wales in the Bristol office of Manolete, the UK’s leading insolvency litigation finance company. She takes over as chair from Philip Winterbourne,...
Lawyers from Bristol-headquartered TLT are toasting their role in bringing iconic drink Babycham back to its West Country roots ahead of its relaunch next year by members of the same family that made it a huge success in the 1950s and 1960s. The TLT advised Somerset-based drinks firm Brothers...
The property litigation team at national law firm Foot Anstey has advised on a major case which has allowed leaseholders of million pound-plus flats in an upmarket part of London the right to manage their building. In the case, the Court of Appeal ruled against the freehold owner of...
Roper Rhodes, the bathroom furniture designer and supplier with its main warehouse on the outskirts of Bristol, has been sold to a Swedish firm in a deal worth up to £90m put together by city-based law firm TLT and accountants Deloitte. Family-owned Roper Rhodes was launched 42 years ago...
A fundraising appeal set up by a pioneering Bristol cookery school to help tackle food poverty in the city is being backed by national law firm Burges Salmon. Bristol-headquartered Burges Salmon has joined a group of businesses and philanthropists pledging to double donations over the next week to Square Food...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has significantly enhanced its family leave policy in what it is calling a progressive shift in its working practices. The firm, which employs more than 130 partners and employs around 1,150 people across its seven offices, said the move was also aimed at improving...
The private equity team at regional law firm Foot Anstey has advised legal tech specialist Access UK on its fourth acquisition this year – the latest being the takeover of Legal Bricks, which provides property-related services to the sector. Launched in 2017, West Midlands-based Legal Bricks delivers a customised...
Two Bristol-based corporate finance legal teams have been involved in the £33m sale of a significant minority stake in design-led pet accessories brand Omlet to private equity firm Piper. Bristol-headquartered Burges Salmon advised Omlet’s founding shareholders while the city office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) advised Piper,...
