Former Lloyds Banking Group director Clive Hetherington has been appointed as an enterprise ambassador by accountancy group KPMG for its privately owned business offering. It is the second new role for Clive, pictured, who retired last month after 33 years with Lloyds Banking Group in Bristol. Last week regional...
Legal training at Bristol’s three biggest corporate law firms has been rated “outstanding” in a national survey of more than 1,500 trainees and junior solicitors. Burges Salmon, Osborne Clarke and TLT are among just nine firms to gain the top A* rating in the poll conducted by Legal Cheek,...
The Lord Mayor of the City of London has praised Bristol’s business community for working in partnership to develop the city’s economy. Lord Mountevans, pictured, said out of the dozen UK cities he had visited this year, Bristol’s businesses had shown the greatest commitment to drive their city forward. ...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs returns to the West of England next Friday for its fifth year, bringing together some of the UK’s most influential female entrepreneurs, business leaders and brightest start-ups to provide detailed insight for starting and scaling a business. The jam-packed programme at the At-Bristol science...
Robert Bourns, President of The Law Society of England & Wales, last night received the Bristol Law Society President’s Outstanding Achievement Award for his contribution to the legal sector in the city and across the country. His 30-year plus career has taken him from trainee in Bristol – where...
M4 corridor law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bristol, has appointed two partners to its new Southampton base. Initially focused on agriculture, landed estates and private client work, the office is a key part of Thrings’ ambitious expansion plans to address changes in the legal market. The...
South West law firm Foot Anstey has continued to build its sector experience with the appointment of former Lloyds Banking Group mid markets director Clive Hetherington as an advisor. Clive, pictured, left Lloyds last month after more than 30 years in the banking industry. At Foot Anstey, which has...
The UK could ‘self-harm’ from a post-Brexit attitude to foreign workers being encouraged by Theresa May’s government, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable has told Bristol business leaders. Leaving the EU could also have a ‘sting in the tail’ for those who voted for it thinking it would lead...
The Bristol office of national law firm Bevan Brittan has announced the death of partner Tim Rowe. Tim Rowe, pictured, died following a short illness. He joined Bevan Brittan in February as an equity partner in the property team based in Bristol and was previously a partner at Bristol-headquartered...
Bristol’s future economic growth faces huge challenges because it is being held back by complacency combined with massive inequality, low productivity and poor infrastructure. The stark warning emerged from Mayor Marvin Rees’ first State of the City lecture, when he vowed to stop Bristol being a “city fractured by...
The corporate team from Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has advised asset management company Premier Asset Management Group on its listing on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. The Burges Salmon team, led by partner Chris Godfrey, pictured, and assisted by senior associate Emma Sorrell and associate Mark...
The president of the CBI has urged West business leaders to press for a ‘soft’ Brexit with full access to the European Single Market and to also counter the view that immigration is bad for the UK. Paul Drechsler CBE told the South West CBI annual dinner that he...
Three Bristol-based lawyers have set up a new specialist dispute resolution boutique practice after leaving one of the city’s largest full-service legal firms. Partners Richard Loney, Alistair Stewart and Sarah Holland – who previously worked at Lyons Davidson – have launched Loney Steward Holland to specialise in the full...
