Pensions expert Claire Rankin has left Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon to join the local office of rival international legal practice Osborne Clarke as a partner. BClaire, pictured, is a highly regarded pensions practitioner who specialises in non-contentious pensions law. She arrives at Osborne Clarke after nine years with...
Bristol-based specialist R&D tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown has this month reached a significant milestone by welcoming its 100th employee to its rapidly expanding team of specialist tax advisers, sector specialists, lawyers and ex-HMRC inspectors. Dave North, pictured, joins the firm, the UK’s largest of its kind, as a technology...
TLT is making up two associates and two legal directors to partner in a move that, along with a series of other promotions, improves the Bristol-headquartered national firm’s gender diversity at a senior level. The newly promoted partners are corporate lawyer Nina Searle, pictured, and regulatory lawyer Duncan Reed,...
More work linked to an EU-funded satellite programme has been secured by specialist IT group SCISYS as it continues to benefit from its long-running expertise in the space industry. The firm, which has an office in Bristol, won two orders with a combined €9.7m (£8.4m) value from Thales Alenia...
Monday April 29 Finals: Horizon Discovery Group, Nasstar, Xpediator Interims: Lok’n Store Group, Proactis Holdings, Up Global Sourcing Holdings Trading update: Evraz Tuesday April 30 Finals: Animalcare Group, Dillistone Group, Inspiration Healthcare Group, Novacyt S.A. Xeros Technology Group Interims: C4Z Discovery Holdings, Image Scan Holdings Trading updates: Essentra, Greene...
Four Bristol businesses have this week been celebrating winning a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of their contribution to the UK economy. Maximise IT Solutions, Bodywise UK, Pitchmark and Precision Dippings Manufacturing are among 201 firms across the UK recognised for their contribution to international trade, innovation,...
Historic England and English Heritage are set to consolidate their regional offices and relocate to Bristol’s Finzels Reach development as it continues to grow into a vibrant new business quarter for the city. The two organisations will lease 5,950 sq ft of prime office space on the first floor...
Armadillo, the Bristol-based customer relationship marketing (CRM) agency, has extended its expertise by launching an in-house marketing team. The agency, which works with blue-chip clients such as McDonald’s, P&O Cruises, Cunard and Disney, has taken on three new hires – Sophy Wells and Jacqueline Reardon as marketing managers, and Carolyn...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon is to open an office in Edinburgh next month having secured three high-calibre partners from top-quality independent Scottish firms. The firm, which also has an office London, said the move recognised and responded to the needs of its clients and also aligned with...
Freeths has become the latest national law firm to open a base in Bristol as the city continues to grow in standing as one of the strongest legal centres outside London. The office, at Temple Quay, Bristol Temple Quarter, will be headed by a real estate specialist but will...
One of Bristol’s new generation of independent café/restaurants, Dela in Easton, has been put up for sale by its owners. Co-owners Mike Orme and Lara Lindsay opened Dela two years ago in a former Victorian warehouse in Mivart Street, home to an eclectic group of creative businesses. Dela, which...
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Two new partners have been appointed to transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson’s (WBD) Bristol base as part of a series of senior promotions across its UK offices. Joining the partnership are managing associates Sasha Hinton and Laura Brodie. Sasha, pictured right, a member of the firm’s property disputes...
