An epic Land’s End-to-Bristol cycle challenge along with auctions, raffles, dress-down days and a firm-wide bake off helped Bristol law firm Barcan+Kirby raise more than £12,000 for its charity of the year. The range of activities meant the firm, which has six offices in and around the city, ended...
Bristol-headquartered law firm Bevan Brittan has donated £5,000 to St Peter’s Hospice, the city charity that cares for adults with life-limiting illnesses. The donation is part of a total of £20,000 the firm is giving nationally to charities this Christmas across its four office locations, which also include Leeds,...
South West law firm Foot Anstey has advised long-standing client independent children’s media company Silvergate Media on its acquisition by global giant Sony Pictures Television (SPT). London-based Silvergate’s assets include the 2019 BAFTA-winning Netflix children’s animation series Hilda and a 49% interest in a joint venture with Beijing-based Wanda,...
Two specialist higher education lawyers at Bristol-headquartered law firm VWV have been promoted to partner. Robin Rajanah and Bob Fahy work closely with higher education institutions and providers across the UK, advising them on a wide range of employment and complex property matters. Robin, pictured right, who is based...
A particular problem with social media is that it blurs the professional and the personal, the business and the individual – there may be a clear commercial objective to all this tweeting and blogging, but it’s the authentically human voice that makes an account stand out. A business may...
International law firm Osborne Clarke has been linked with a possible move from its Bristol office, where it employs more than 600 people, to a flagship new development in the city. Construction work has recently started on Halo, pictured right, a speculative 116,000 sq ft office scheme on the...
Bristol-headquartered law firms TLT and Burges Salmon have acted on a multi-million pound debt funding for a London-based battery storage firm. Burges Salmon’s energy team advised Zenobē Energy on the £25m limited recourse debt from Santander UK, while TLT advised the bank, a long-standing client. Zenobē Energy is one...
The importance of having a strategic plan for business growth was underpinned at an event hosted by Bristol-based law firm Gregg Latchams’ In-house Lawyer service (IHL) and Bristol Business News. Called ‘Growing your business on solid foundations’, the seminar was aimed at helping the owners of start-up and scale-up...
The new owners of Bristol mobile telecoms equipment manufacturer CL Electrical Controls are planning to grow the business, including moving to a larger site, after buying it in a management buy-out put together with city-based law firm Meade King. The firm, based in Winterbourne, also makes systems that control...
Another growth phase is on the cards at Bristol-based Molson Group, the UK’s largest independent distributor of capital equipment to the construction and waste management sectors, after it secured a further £11m investment. In a deal put together in Bristol by city-based advisers, Molson received the funding from the...
Leading licensing lawyer Ewen Macgregor has joined TLT’s licensing team, further building on Bristol-headquartered national law firm’s specialisms in the leisure, food & drink and retail & consumer goods sectors, in which it acts for many of the UK’s leading brands. Ewen, pictured, joins from Bristol and London firm...
A support worker at a unique charity dedicated to helping people with brain tumours is being sponsored by the Bristol office of national law firm Clarke Willmott. The firm has teamed up with Thornbury-based Brain Tumour Support to help Trish Moroney in her role in the geographical areas where...
South West law firm Foot Anstey has advised fast-growing media group Future on the latest in a string of acquisitions. Bath-based Future, whose titles include FourFourTwo, How It Works and Total Film, paid £23.5m for London-based Barcroft Studios, which operates a YouTube channel with 9m subscribers and 63m followers...
