Mid-market private equity investor LDC has further strengthened its Bristol-based South West & Wales team with the appointment of Oliver Schofield as an investment director. Oliver joins LDC from Goldman Sachs in London, where he was part of its leveraged finance team, supporting clients across the TMT (technology, media...
Bristol haulage firm Wrings Transport celebrates a quarter of a century of trading this year with investment in its fleet as it looks to grow over the next 12 months. The firm, based in Hallen, has secured a six-figure funding package from Lombard Asset Finance to buy a limited-edition...
The Bristol office of investment group BGF has backed wine brand developer and distributor Off-Piste Wines with £8m funding to support further growth – taking its total investment for 2019 to £37m. The office’s investment in South West firms since it opened in 2011 now reached £165m. While last...
Two thirds of small and medium-sized firms in the South West took steps to make their businesses greener last year with roughly the same percentage saying they want to improve their environmental sustainability in 2020. Some 43% believe becoming more environmentally sustainable is important to them while just over...
A director in the Bristol office of South West accountancy firm Milsted Langdon has been named as one of the profession’s up-and-coming experts. Guy Armitage-Norton, pictured, appears in the latest 35 under 35 list published by industry publication Accountancy Age. The annual table highlight young professionals in the sector...
Assetz Capital, the specialist small business lender, has appointed Tony Kear as relationship director as it looks to help more firms across the region access growth funding. Tony, pictured, has 34 years’ experience in banking having worked for NatWest and RBS as head of healthcare and financing businesses in...
Lloyds Banking Group has appointed long-standing Bristol-based director Jeremy Hayward as its ambassador for the South West to help support social and economic prosperity across the region. Jeremy, pictured, will take the lead on delivering the group’s Helping Britain Prosper plan in the region. The plan, launched in 2014,...
International accountancy group KPMG has promoted Andrew Morgan to chair of its South region, a role that gives him responsibility for strategy in an area that includes its offices in Bristol, Reading, Southampton, Plymouth and Cardiff. Andrew, pictured, succeeds Karen Witton, who has stepped down after four years to...
Corporate advisory group GS Verde has expanded its Bristol office with 10 senior appointments following a significant six-figure funding package from HSBC. The Cardiff-headquartered group, which includes law firm Greenaway Scott, corporate finance boutique Verde Corporate Finance and patent attorney business Alchemie IP, specialises in mergers and acquisition advice,...
A majority stake in Bristol-based pensions software firm Procentia has been acquired by the executive arm of the UK’s largest private sector pension schemes. Procentia was launched in 2002 by a group of self-confessed pension software geeks and has grown into a major player in the fast-growing specialist financial...
Bristol financial planning firm Paradigm Norton has launched an academy in partnership with UWE to invest in its next generation of leaders Participants from the firm will study modules in self-leadership, personal vision, succession, sustainability and legacy and conflict and confrontation. With a maximum of eight Paradigm Norton employees...
Dozens of Bristol businesses are backing the UK’s first contactless donation system that supports homeless people, making it the country’s fastest-growing project of its kind. TAP for Bristol now has 20 donation points around the city centre raising £150 a day. The money raised goes towards homelessness prevention services as...
One of the UK’s oldest family-run regional breweries called on Bristol-based corporate finance experts to help it with its latest acquisition – despite being based 135 miles away. Stockport-based Robinsons, a 181-year-old, sixth-generation family business, turned to the Bristol corporate finance team of national accountancy group Smith & Williamson to work on...
