Bristol-based Latin American restaurant chain Las Iguanas is continuing its national roll-out by opening its 39th outlet in Torquay. The restaurant, in the English Riveria resort’s £12m Abbey Sands development, will create 50 jobs ahead of its April opening. Licensing aspects of the deal were handled by Bristol-headquartered law...
Solicitors with tax affairs which are not up to date, including those with undisclosed taxable income, have less than three weeks to notify HMRC of their intention to take part in its disclosure facility. The warning comes from the Bristol office of accountancy and investment management group Smith &...
TLT, the Bristol-headquartered law firm, has advised venture capital firm Sussex Place Ventures on its investment in expanding UK firm Kimble Applications, one of Europe’s leading professional services automation (PSA) providers. The investment, part of a $1.8m (£1.2m) equity fundraising, will allow Kimble Applications to further expand its international...
The Bristol office of South West law firm Ashfords has advised innovative data management company ClusterHQ on the UK legal aspects of its $12m (£7.8m) funding round. As reported on Bristol Business News last week, the Series A funding was led by US tech fund Accel Partners, with participation...
National specialist recruitment firm BCL Legal has appointed Georgina Inson as a senior associate in its Bristol office. Georgina, pictured, will handle non-contentious commercial roles in the city, including real estate, commercial and corporate opportunities. She has worked in legal recruitment for five years and held positions at Hays...
Some of Bristol’s biggest businesses have joined forces with seven Rotary Clubs across the city to support a campaign to immunise 125,000 children against polio. The 11 firms are backing Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign, part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) which is looking to eradicate polio...
Burges Salmon, the Bristol-headquartered law firm, has been appointed by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to its newly-created legal panel. The firm will provide the FSCS with a range of legal services as one of eight firms appointed to the panel to manage the majority of its legal...
Annual turnover at West of England law firm Thrings has climbed by 18% to £25m on strong performances by its corporate, commercial property, agriculture and company commercial teams. The Top 100 firm, which has offices in Bristol, Bath, Swindon and London, also said investment in clients and staff and...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has advised BGL Group, one of the UK’s largest consumer insurance groups, on the sale of the country’s number one specialist motorbike insurer Bennetts. Saga is paying £26.6m to acquire Bennetts, which covers more than 200,000 motorbike enthusiasts – almost half over the age of...
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 Stephen Rosser, chief executive of national law firm Clarke Willmott, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Chasing Mavericks, the story of...
Law firm Foot Anstey’s corporate team has been named as the most active legal advisers, by volume, in the South West in independent research. The report by global information services group Experian places the team at the top of the region’s table of advisers with 35 transactions completed last year. It acted...
Groundbreaking law firm Temple Bright has today been joined by Foot Anstey’s head of pensions Comron Rowe, who will launch its pensions practice. Rowe, pictured, left, with Temple Bright co-founder Tim Summers, will work out of the firm’s Bristol office and serve clients across the UK. Rowe qualified at...
Confidence among West of England businesses petered out at the end of 2014 and has started the new year lower than at any time over the previous 12 months, new research shows. Domestic sales, cashflow and recruitment expectations all fell during the fourth quarter, according to results of the...
