Osborne Clarke, the Bristol-headquartered international law firm, has promoted five associate directors to its partnership, taking its total number of partners to more than 200 for the first time. The new partners include Simon Hancock, pictured right, who joined the firm in 2009 as a projects lawyer in its...
National law firm Bond Dickinson, which has a major office in Bristol, has been re-appointed to insurance giant AIG Europe’s legal panel following a review of its legal services. Bond Dickinson will advise AIG Europe, one of the largest companies specialising in the European business insurance market, on corporate,...
TLT, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, has promoted six associates to partners in its commercial services and banking & lender services groups. The promotions, in its Bristol, London, Belfast and Manchester offices, take the number of partners at the firm to over 100 for the first time. The move...
Organisers of next month’s Business Showcase South West have come up with five compelling reasons for business people to attend what will be the biggest of its kind in the region The event, on May 14 and 15 at Bristol’s Colston Hall, will celebrate the best in innovation, creativity...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has appointed six new partners, half them former trainees with the firm. The move takes Burges Salmon’s total number of partners to 81, reflecting its continued growth across a number of sectors and practice areas. The new partners are: Lloyd James, who becomes...
Anticipation is building ahead of next month’s Business Showcase South West 2015 and firms are being warned not to miss out on unparalleled sponsorship, exhibition stands and free delegate passes for what will be the region’s biggest business show this year. The two-day staged at Bristol’s Colston Hall on May...
Bristol executive Search firm Moon Consulting and Bristol Business News have teamed up again to seek the opinions of business leaders across the South West and find out more about the diverse attitudes and leadership abilities of the region’s boardrooms. The South West Board Effectiveness Survey 2015 enables board directors...
Regional law firm Foot Anstey has made a number of promotions including nine senior associates, four of them in its Bristol office, and four new legal directors. Alex Cross (commercial), Catherine Haugh (dispute resolution) and Sarah Hale and Zahir Nayani (commercial property) are among the new senior associates. Employment...
National law firm Clarke Willmott continues to grow its private client services team with the appointment of Gillian Kennedy-Smith as a senior associate in its Bristol office. Gillian, pictured, who qualified in 2006, joins from offshore firm Carey Olsen in Guernsey, where she worked in one of the largest...
Eric Livingston, a partner and construction solicitor at regional law firm Thrings, has become chairman of the Forum for the Built Environment’s (fbe) Great Western branch. Eric, pictured, a specialist in construction procurement, contract preparation and negotiation and resolving construction disputes, assumes the role after serving as regional vice...
West of England law firm Ashfords is to increase its intake of trainee solicitors over the next three years as a result of continued growth. The firm, which has six offices including one in Bristol, is now looking for five more trainees to join it this September and in...
Bristol firms have just over a month to make sure they secure sponsorship, exhibition stands and free delegate passes for the region’s biggest business show. The Business Showcase South West 2015 will provide a platform for the best of the West of England’s innovation, creativity and enterprise. It has...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Karl Brown, president of the Bristol Junior Chamber and senior associate at Clarke Willmott, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Selma...
