Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT is to accelerate its growth in the UK and overseas, including providing non-legal support to clients in areas such as sustainability, diversity and wellness, after posting a 11.3% increase in its annual revenues to £110m. Its expansion over the past 12 months – its...
National law firm Bevan Brittan has shrugged off the massive impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the legal sector to achieve a 29.5% increase in net profits on revenue up by 9.1%. Revenue for the 2020/21 financial year came in at £56.1m - with growth across all parts of...
The growth capital team at international law firm Osborne Clarke’s Bristol office have maintained their recent flurry of deals by advising on a multimillion pound investment into a company now building the world’s safety standard for cryptocurrency. The team worked with global venture capital fund Element Ventures in its...
Bristol firms are being urged to remain cautious about easing Covid-related measures too quickly as the country prepares for most legal restrictions to be lifted on Monday. With infection rates rising again across the area, the city council is encouraging residents to avoid crowded areas, if possible, and to...
A month-long challenge by staff at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has raised more than £23,000 for charities as it continues this year’s charitable theme of ‘no child goes hungry’. Under The Big Challenge, teams from across the firm aimed to cover the equivalent of the distance between...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby’s community fund, which it set up last year to help community groups in the areas where it has offices, has donated funds to a Thornbury charity that helps children with additional needs and their families. The £300 has gone to JIGSAW’s Project 5 Wellbeing and...
The Bristol-based venture capital team at international legal practice Osborne Clarke has completed two investment deals totalling £15m involving fast-growing brands. Its lawyers advised funders BGF and CPT Capital on an £11m equity round for THIS, a plant-based, meat alternative brand, and handled a £4m growth capital investment from...
Lawyers in the Bristol office of international legal practice Osborne Clarke have advised broker Liberum Capital on its handling of online-only building materials retailer CMO Group’s London Stock Exchange flotation. Plymouth-based CMO is seeking to capitalise on the construction sector’s comparatively slow move online and Britain’s £27bn addressable building...
Santander UK has again called on legal experts at Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT to advise it on a multi-million pound finance deal for a major battery storage plant. The bank’s latest transaction with Zenobe Energy, the UK’s leading owner and operator of battery storage plants, is for what is...
Burges Salmon, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, plans to bring in new post-Covid fexible working arrangements for all employees that will allow them to work from home if they choose, subject to ensuring clients and colleagues are prioritised. The firm, which has more than 800 people in its Bristol HQ...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT is to change its working practices to create what it describes as a fully flexible, progressive and inclusive work environment. The firm said the new approach would introduce a significant, long-term shift for its 1,150 employees and 130-plus partners and put it among the legal...
A report on rural communities co-authored by a Bristol-based partner at regional law firm Foot Anstey has called for a new approach to transport and mobility to those in urban areas. Called The 30-minute rural community, the research by Foot Anstey and global consulting firm WSP shows that many...
R3, the restructuring and insolvency trade body, has launched a free guide for company directors on how to spot signs of financial distress, options open to them to resolve it and where to get expert advice. Called Get Back to Business: A guide to dealing with corporate financial distress,...
