Specialist legal and business services provider Jordans has relocated its Bristol head office to prepare for expansion nearly a year after being taken over.
The firm has moved from its base in St Thomas Street, Redcliffe, to prestigious new offices in 10, Templeback, one of Bristol city centre’s prime waterside business addresses. 
Jordans was acquired last December by international corporate service providers Vistra, one of the largest businesses of its kind in the world.
All 130 staff from the Jordans group, which brings together a unique team of lawyers, accountants, trust managers, data specialists and company formation agents, have moved into the 15,000 sq ft of newly refurbished space at 10 Templeback. The firm said the move would allow for considerable expansion in the years ahead.
Jordans works for most of the UK’s leading law firms and accountancy practices, and has an enviable client base of small, medium and large business (including listed companies) in all sectors.
It has amalgamated several of its service units to form ‘centres of excellence’ to take advantage of emerging market opportunities. It now has three divisions – Business Information, Corporate Law and Corporate Services. Each will be managed in the UK, collaborating closely with Vistra’s executive management team.
Jordans Corporate Services managing director Jason Burgoyne, pictured below, said: “We’ve been working on a new structure that will allow us to maximise the opportunities that being part of a global operation allows. 
“The acquisition, and now the restructuring and the office move, have given us an exciting platform for growth.
“Critically, our new offices will allow us all to work on one floor – encouraging greater collaboration, enabling cross selling of services and making our total business offer to clients an integrated, seamless one.”
Moving close to Temple Meads was also a conscious decision by the company to be in a strategic location for its UK client base.
Debbie Farman, who heads the company’s law firm, added: “The benefits go two way. Vistra saw a great opportunity to have a UK presence for their international clients, while Jordans’ UK clients can draw upon the global scale of Vistra’s services.
“Another attraction for Vistra is that Jordans is the only corporate service provider with its own regulated law firm, Jordans Corporate Law.
“We can now provide clients with everything they need under one roof – from UK and international company formations, business information and company secretarial support through to wider, highly technical corporate governance and compliance for boards and committees, director services, accounting, tax, legal and business support solutions. 
Jordans, which has been in business for more than 150 years, will now be known as ‘Jordans: a Vistra company’ prior to a full rebrand in the future, with Jordans Corporate Law retaining its name in full for the near future.
Debbie Farman, pictured left, added: “While we can call on the support from the Vistra team around the world when we need it, their message is to keep on doing what we’ve been doing – and expanding our client base. Vistra are learning from us, just as much as we can learn from them.
“Certainly all our clients have been enormously positive about the additional global strength and depth this provides to their businesses as well as ours.”
Vistra is one of the world’s top four corporate service providers of international incorporations, trust, fiduciary and fund administration services. It employs more than 3,500 professionals in 74 locations across 44 jurisdictions.
