Law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bristol, has made its largest ever round of promotions with three new partners, a legal director, six associates and eight senior associates – a new role for the firm. The new partners are planning expert Ros Trotman and agricultural litigator Robert...
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 Giles Woodward, a partner in Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST Film you watched? The last film I saw at...
The way that blockchain and digital currencies are already revolutionising industries as diverse as recycling, energy, financial services and the law was explained at Bristol’s first Crypto Curry Club. Hosted by the Bristol office of law firm Thrings, the event brought together some of the leading minds in the...
Bristol firms are lining up to take to the tables for the return of the city’s Ping Pong Fight Club next month. Bristol Airport, Unite Students and Sustain IT Solutions are among the local businesses to have already signed up for the tournament and party on November 7, while...
David Pester, the long-serving managing partner of Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT, is to step down from the role next April. He will be replaced by corporate head John Wood, who has been elected to the post by the firm’s partnership. David Pester, pictured right, was first elected as...
Bristol is now “considered by some” as the UK’s second city for legal work, according to the latest edition of respected national industry guide The Legal 500. The city not only serves as a hub for many South West-based firms, but has also been a popular location for national...
Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has welcomed five trainee solicitors to its Bristol office as part of a 25-strong cohort joining its eight UK offices. The two-year training contracts give the trainees the opportunity to spend six months in four different business groups across the firm including real...
Cross-border transactional lawyers at Bristol-headquartered TLT have helped West of England manufacturing group Avon Rubber finance its £75m acquisition of US industrial group’s 3M’s personal ballistic protection business. Avon, which specialises in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) respiratory protection systems, said the deal would help deepen its long-standing...
IT and technology specialist Suzie Miles has been promoted to partner in the Bristol office of law firm Ashfords in the latest round of internal promotions. Suzie, pictured, is in an expert in software licensing, IT and business process outsourcing, e-commerce enterprise IT. Having joined Ashfords as a trainee...
Law firm Thrings has appointed inheritance and tax planning specialist Penny Munro as a senior associate in a move that further strengthens its private client team. Penny, pictured, has joined from Dorset & Wiltshire firm Farnfields Solicitors, where she worked for nearly seven years. She has more than 20...
The Bristol offices of financial and professional services firm Smith & Williamson and law firm Clarke Willmott have advised a Welsh specialist software firm on its major cross-border acquisition by a multi-billion dollar Japanese industrial group. Swansea-based RAP International specialises in risk assessment software used in high hazard industries by a client base comprising many...
South West law firm Foot Anstey, which has an office in Bristol, is welcoming an 11-strong cohort of trainees this month after a huge increase in applications. The number of individuals applying for training contracts at the firmed soared by 84% this year on 2018. This followed a concerted...
The banking and finance team in law firm Ashfords’ Bristol office has been boosted with the appointment of Ed Hobbs as a partner. Ed, pictured, joins from national firm Burges Salmon’s Bristol head office, where he worked for six years as a senior associate. Prior to that he spent...
