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...
International audit, tax and advisory firm Mazars has strengthened its team in Bristol with the promotion of Jon Barnard to audit partner and a major intake of new trainees. Jon, pictured, joined Mazars’ Bristol office nearly 17 years ago as a student chartered accountant and has worked there ever...
Brazilian cloud banking and payments platform Pismo has chosen Bristol as the location for its European headquarters – giving another boost to the city’s thriving fintech ecosystem. Pismo, which is looking to use Bristol as a springboard into the UK banking market, said it chose the city because of fintech...
This year’s unprecedented increase in made-in-Bristol TV shows is set to continue into 2022 as production companies head to the city to use it as a backdrop for dramas and its studios continue to attract new programmes. There was a 225% increase in drama production in the city on...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak must step up and provide an urgent package of measures to support Bristol businesses as they suffer the effects of another Covid-hit Christmas, according to West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris. His call for a package of support until the end of January to get...
Bristol’s pandemic-hit arts and cultural organisations are set to benefit from more than £2.5m of funding from the city council over the next four years. A new Cultural Investment Programme has been launched to provide grants and support to festivals, events, artists and the people they work with. Starting...
An alcohol-free beer brewed near Bristol has been judged the best in the South West just a few months after being launched. Butcombe Brewing’s Goram IPA Zero first went on sale in August and marked the firm’s first move into the fast-growing no and low-alcohol drinks market. It has...
National property consultancy Aitchison Raffety has opened its first office in Bristol, and its its 12th office across England, to strengthen its service to clients in the South West. The independent chartered surveying and town planning practice said the office, in the showpiece Spectrum building on Bond Street, was...
Bristol-based professionals at Smith & Williamson have advised fast-growing HR technology platform Connectr on a multi-million pound investment deal. The £5m follow-on funding into the leading digital employee mentoring platform was made by Puma Private Equity, the private equity division of Puma Investments. London-based Connectr, formerly known as MyKindaFuture,...
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...
A recently-refurbished office building in Bristol city centre is now fully occupied following the letting of its final suite. PS21, the former TSB regional office on Prince Street, was acquired in 2016 acquisition by Cheltenham-based developer Robert Hitchins. It has since been extensively refurbished to provide 15,278 sq ft...
A pioneering scheme run by world-leading tech incubator SETsquared to give students business innovation skills training has passed the 1,000 mark. The Intrapreneurial Knowledge Exchange Enterprise Pathway (IKEEP) was set up nearly a year ago by SETsquared, which is backed by a group of six leading universities including Bristol, with...
Bristol housebuilder Autograph Homes has expanded its team with the appointment of Ian Drew to the role of head of technical and planning. Ian, pictured, has more than 20 years’ experience in the sector, having worked with major UK housebuilders such as Taylor Wimpey and Bovis Homes on multiple...
