Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has taken on 13 new trainees in its Bristol office as part of a 13% increase in trainee recruitment across its Southern region. The new Bristol recruits are among 320 new starters appointed nationally by RSM in its 35 UK offices. Almost a...
Wealth management and corporate and institutional broking firm WHIreland has made two key appointments in Bristol as it continues to build its team in the city. Chris Savidge joins as a corporate finance executive and Joe Harker as an investment manager on the wealth management side. Chris arrives from...
Triodos, the ethical bank with its UK headquarters in Bristol, has appointed Rob Keegan to head a team supporting small and medium-sized (SME) enterprises. Rob, pictured, joins as Triodos Bank UK head of small business lending, has 29 years’ experience in SME banking. He joins from RBS where he...
Business West’s Skills West team is running a series of business skills workshops throughout autumn covering topics ranging from recruitment and flexible working to apprenticeships for small and medium-sized businesses and developing the workforce. The workshops take place across the West of England and are open to businesses from...
The venture capital team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised long-standing client Sussex Place Ventures on its part in a $10m (£7.53m) investment in healthcare tech firm Endomag. London-based Sussex Place Ventures joined London and Cambridge-based tech-focused investor Draper Esprit on the C round funding, which Endomag...
A snapshot of Bristol’s start-up and scale-up ecosystem has been produced in an easy-to-use format to show where high-growth businesses can find essential support, information and advice. The innovative Growth Map – illustrated like a London Tube map and thought to be the UK’s first of its kind –...
Bristol businesses are being challenged to come up with new and exciting ways to raise funds for city charities and voluntary groups as the first Bristol Giving Day approaches. Staged by Quartet Community Foundation, the independent charity that works across the West of England to support local philanthropists in...
Strategic consulting firm Whitecap Consulting is to open an office in Bristol in its latest phase of its regional expansion. Whitecap, which was established in 2012, helps clients typically located outside London analyse, develop and implement growth strategies. Headquartered in Leeds, the firm expanded last year into the North...
A business using Artificial Intelligence to develop new methods of teaching and learning has received £150,000 in equity funding from the Bristol Private Equity Club. Fluence, a member of the globally-acclaimed SETsquared business accelerator in Bristol, has also appointed Bristol Private Equity Club member Jez Williams as chairman, giving...
The Bristol office of national accountancy group Haines Watts has recruited Paul Bray as a corporate tax partner. Paul, pictured, who joins from Smith & Williamson’s Bristol office, has been appointed as head of tax to work alongside office managing director Matt Bracher. Having been at Smith & Williamson...
By Louise Somerset, Smith & Williamson private client and family office services partner If you who owe tax in relation to offshore assets you need to act now or face a potentially severe fine. Under the Requirement to Correct (RTC) legislation, taxpayers with outstanding offshore tax liabilities must come forward...
Bristol-based advisers at accountancy group Smith & Williamson and law firm Thrings have advised cyber security software firm CybSafe on a £3.5m fundraising. CybSafe, based in London’s Canary Wharf, is an award-winning cloud-based platform which raises awareness of cyber security in organisations through learning materials, risk assessments and analytics....
Newly completed Bristol landmark office building Aurora has been sold for just over £62m after setting the highest-ever rent for the city centre. Following weeks of speculation, contracts have been exchanged on the 95,000 sq ft grade A building at Finzels Reach – more than 85% of which is...
