The clean energy team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has hired the former general counsel of green energy firm Ecotricity as a partner. Tom Cowling, pictured, joins TLT as a partner in its commercial services group after more than eight years at the Stroud-based energy pioneer. While there...
Bristol law firm Meade King has promoted three staff to partner level in its property and professional negligence teams. The three are Jodie Purdue, who works in Meade King’s residential property team, commercial property lawyer Heidi Bateman, and Simon Price, a lawyer in its dispute resolution and litigation department....
Fast-growing national logistics group Kinaxia has entered the South West market with the acquisition of Yate-based commercial transport operator David Hathaway. The move comes as founder David Hathaway, who launched the business in 1976 as a coal merchant, retires and hands over the reins to his three sons already...
Bristol-based European patent and trade mark attorneys Haseltine Lake has merged with a Yorkshire boutique intellectual property (IP) law firm to create what it is calling a “new powerhouse” for the sector. The combined firm has created an international business employing nearly 200 people across seven locations – Bristol,...
Bristol businesses looking for a corporate challenge can join a 470km cycle ride to Paris to and help raise money for the city’s hospitals. Now in its fifth year, the event will include 80 cyclists taking a new route from the centre of Bristol to the French capital, where...
Specialist corporate law firm Greenaway Scott has promoted associate director Lorna Bolton, who heads its Bristol office, to director. The firm, which focuses on fast-growth clients and mergers and acquisitions, launched the office at Temple Quay last autumn – adding to its existing regional offices in Cardiff and Swansea...
Pensions expert Claire Rankin has left Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon to join the local office of rival international legal practice Osborne Clarke as a partner. BClaire, pictured, is a highly regarded pensions practitioner who specialises in non-contentious pensions law. She arrives at Osborne Clarke after nine years with...
TLT is making up two associates and two legal directors to partner in a move that, along with a series of other promotions, improves the Bristol-headquartered national firm’s gender diversity at a senior level. The newly promoted partners are corporate lawyer Nina Searle, pictured, and regulatory lawyer Duncan Reed,...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon is to open an office in Edinburgh next month having secured three high-calibre partners from top-quality independent Scottish firms. The firm, which also has an office London, said the move recognised and responded to the needs of its clients and also aligned with...
Freeths has become the latest national law firm to open a base in Bristol as the city continues to grow in standing as one of the strongest legal centres outside London. The office, at Temple Quay, Bristol Temple Quarter, will be headed by a real estate specialist but will...
Two new partners have been appointed to transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson’s (WBD) Bristol base as part of a series of senior promotions across its UK offices. Joining the partnership are managing associates Sasha Hinton and Laura Brodie. Sasha, pictured right, a member of the firm’s property disputes...
Bristol-headquartered specialist legal and business services provider Jordans Group has rebranded as Vistra nearly two-and-a-half years after it was taken over by the corporate services multinational of the same name. Established more than 150 years ago, the group brings together a unique team of lawyers, accountants, trust managers, data...
Joanne Easterbrook has been reappointed as senior partner of Bristol-headquartered national law firm Bevan Brittan while two partners have been appointed to its board. Joanne, pictured, became senior partner in 2016 and will now hold the post for a further three-year term with effect from May 1 – the...
