Efforts to boost business productivity and increase innovation among West of England manufacturers have been highlighted by the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) at its AGM. The meeting, which went under the banner of ‘Our West, Our Future’, heard how the LEP is now delivering its Local Industrial Strategy to spur...
With less than a month to go until nominations close, Bristol directors are being urged to enter one of the South West’s top award schemes recognising excellence and enterprise. The Institute of Directors’ (IoD) South West Director of the Year Awards 2020 aim to champion the region’s outstanding leaders...
Lobbying and networking organisation Women in Property South West is celebrating another successful year as its new chair settles into the role. Rachael Sherratt, an associate in property agency JLL’s Bristol office, took over from previous chair Ros Trotman this week. Ros, pictured, a planning partner in law firm...
International Women’s Day has been celebrated since the early 1900s. Its actual origins are not known but it is attributed to a march through the streets of New York City in 1908 when 15,000 women turned out calling for equality, voting rights, and better pay and working hours. While...
A former paralegal who began her career with Bristol law firm Meade King has returned to it as a qualified lawyer. Lily Delaney, pictured, joins Meade King’s tax and estate planning team from national law firm VWV’s Bristol head office, where she qualified as a chartered legal executive. She...
Law firm Davies & Partners Solicitors has promoted three senior solicitors in its Bristol office – Caroline Davies, Kerry Raymond and Kirsten Compton – to the position of legal director. Caroline, pictured right, has worked for the firm since 2017 in both the land acquisition and disposal and planning...
Fast-growing portable traffic equipment firm SRL Traffic Systems has appointed two Bristol-based professional advisory firms as its national expansion drive continues. The appointment of multi-disciplinary surveying firm Vickery Holman and law firm Temple Bright follows SRL’s management buyout last year, which was backed by £24m from private equity firm...
Expertise on developments in the clean energy sector have earned Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT a place on utility SSE’s new legal panel. TLT joins four other new firms on the nine-strong panel, which formerly begins its mandate next month. The panel is made up of firms ranging from...
South West accountancy group PKF Francis Clark, which last year opened its first office in Bristol, has appointed experienced professional services marketer Mandy Reynolds as its new director of marketing. Mandy, pictured with PKF Francis Clark managing partner Andrew Richards, has joined from regional law firm Stephens Scown, where...
Community organisations in parts of Bristol and South Gloucestershire are being given an opportunity to benefit from a special fund launched this month by city law firm Barcan+Kirby. The Barcan+Kirby Community Fund will give monetary support to groups and individuals working for the benefit of the communities in areas...
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 Melissa Toney, head of regulatory and licensing at Gregg Latchams, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Joker- of course! Book you read? The...
Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby has strengthened its wills, trusts, and probate team with the appointment of Helene Bryant as a senior associate. Helene, pictured, who is also a registered trust and estate practitioner and joins from NewLaw Solicitors in Bristol, where she spent five-and-a-half years as an associate in...
Investment specialist Dan Whitewood has joined the Bristol headquarters of TLT as a legal director, continuing the national law firm’s UK-wide expansion of its corporate team. Dan, pictured, joins from Simmons & Simmons’ Bristol office, where he was an associate. He brings a wealth of early-stage and fast-growth investment...
