An all-Bristol advisory team of lawyers and financial advisers has completed one of the biggest deals of recent years in the UK’s fast-growing pet food industry, despite the challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The sale of Forthglade, the fast-growing ‘posh’ dog food brand, to IK Investment Partners (IK)...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised specialist asset-based lender Ultimate Finance Group, which has a base in the city, on a £20m loan-on-loan facility. The capital from OakNorth Bank will help Ultimate grow its bridging loan book, providing essential short-term funding to enable property developers and investors to complete...
The owner of one of the UK’s largest solar power plant portfolios has expanded further with the help of Bristol-headquartered law firm Burges Salmon’s energy sector practice. A cross-firm team advised long-standing client Bluefield Solar on the acquisition and financing of 15 ground-mounted operational solar photovoltaic (PV) plants with...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised on a major battery storage project at Avonmouth which has given an international renewable energy group its first venture in the UK. TLT secured a 25-year lease on the site for Hallen Energy, part of the French-owned Voltalia Group. The site, which...
Bristol’s two biggest law firms have maintained their near 100% trainee retention rate despite the challenges caused this year by the coronavirus pandemic. Burges Salmon, which employs more than 800 people in its Bristol headquarters and London and Edinburgh offices, said 97% of its trainees had accepted positions at...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has welcomed the launch today of the government’s Kickstart scheme, which offers subsidised job placements to out-of-work young people. Under the £2bn programme, 16 to 24 year olds claiming Universal Credit and at risk of long-term unemployment, will be able to gain...
National law firm BLM is to close its Bristol office and offer all 17 staff, including four partners, the chance to work remotely. The firm, which specialises in insurance law, is also shutting down its office in Leeds, where it has 16 staff including three partners, and entering into...
The coronavirus pandemic has hit profits at more than 60% of firms in the West of England – with nearly one-in-seven fearing they will never return to pre-Covid levels of activity, according to the largest business survey in the region. Just under a quarter of firms have, or plan...
Two recently opened Bristol developments are in the running for prestigious regional property awards. The Wave, the inland surfing lake opened last November on the city’s outskirts, and the four-storey Copper Building in South Bristol are shortlisted in the 2020 Michelmores Property Awards. The awards, staged by regional law firm...
The West of England is to be showcased as a national centre for legaltech by drawing on its strengths in both technology and law and promoting innovation in the fast-growing sector. The region is already acknowledged as having one of the UK’s fastest-growing legaltech sectors with many of its...
A scheme aiming to make city leadership in Bristol more diverse by unlocking talent and helping people reach their potential is to be extended. Stepping Up, an innovative talent programme specifically for black and minority ethnic people, disabled people and women, was launched two-and-a-half years ago by Baroness McGregor-Smith,...
A steep rise in corporate insolvencies linked to the coronavirus pandemic is being predicted for this winter – and could start as early as October. New research from insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 indicates that lack of funds to pay their rent is likely to be the biggest...
Students considering a training contract with Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon were given a virtual insight instead of a physical one as the firm’s traditional summer vacation scheme went online due to the coronavirus pandemic. This year the scheme offered 28 candidates the same opportunity to find out...
