Bristol businesses suspected of flouting measures aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus could be visited by a new team of Covid Secure Marshals being set up by the city council. The council said it is to have “at least 16” of the marshals operating around the city...
Nearly 6,500 Bristol businesses were in ‘significant financial distress’ between July and September as the coronavirus pandemic hit the city, according to a new report. The total of 6,476 was a 4% increase in the number of firms struggling in the previous three months, according to the figures from...
National law firm Clarke Willmott, which has an office in Bristol, has joined the legal panel of Business Energy Claims, the organisation tackling energy broker mis-selling. The panel, which has a number of legal specialists, assists in helping businesses recover hidden commissions and losses from mis-sold energy contracts. Business...
Bristol-headquartered law firm VWV has secured a seven-figure finance facility from HSBC UK to support its ongoing growth strategy and ensure it is well-placed to adapt to the changing economy. The facility gives VWV, which moved its full banking to HSBC earlier this year, the financial headroom and the...
Bristol firms are being urged to prepare now for the end of the Brexit transition period on January 1 next year, despite many questions of how it will work in practice remaining unanswered. The government has launched a campaign for businesses with the strapline ‘Time is running out’ as...
Bristol Law Society has secured a deal to use its city centre base as a ‘Nightingale Court’ building to ease pressure on Bristol Crown Court caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The temporary courts will occupy the conference room, boardroom and three mediation rooms in the 1,800 sq ft Colston...
Business West, the group that runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce, has welcomed the latest government job and self-employment support measures – but warned that many firms, including those in the city’s vital hospitality and events sectors, continue to miss out. The new support package was announced yesterday by Chancellor...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has advised innovative commercial property developer Sätila Studios on two exciting schemes in the heart of the capital. Clerkenwell-based Sätila Studios, a small privately owned company run by brothers Ted and Oliver Grebelius, originally from Gothenburg, Sweden, has a mission to buy and reinvent buildings and...
The complex legal issues around the use of driverless pods on public roads and pavements have been addressed by a multi-disciplinary team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon. The firm has produced a report on the regulatory environment for the revolutionary vehicles as part of its work with...
The Bristol office of national law firm Clarke Willmott has extended its support for a leading muscular dystrophy charity after fundraising activities were halted by the coronavirus pandemic. Clarke Willmott named Duchenne UK as its official office charity in February last year after partner Oliver Smedley’s son was diagnosed...
A partner in the Bristol office of international law firm Osborne Clarke has been appointed to a high-level government body that helps shape the UK’s future trade policy. Competition and trade partner Marc Shrimpling, pictured, is the only solicitor on the Strategic Trade Advisory Group (STAG), which is chaired...
Firms will ‘despair’ over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s comments today that they should prepare for a no-deal Brexit, the region’s biggest business organisation said. Describing the move as “another period of political theatre”, Business West managing director Phil Smith, pictured, said firms across the West of England were already...
International property consultancy Avison Young has signed up to the Bristol Property Inclusion Charter, which supports and drives diversity and inclusion in the property sector across the city. Founded by Karl Brown, a partner in the commercial property team in Clarke Willmott, the charter is the UK’s first city-wide...
