Davies and Partners Solicitors has promoted Nayur Zahoor to legal director in its Bristol office and head of its dedicated wills, trust and probate team in a move that supports its continuing expansion plans. Nayur, pictured, has more than 18 years’ experience specialising in private client work and joined...
Bristol not-for-profit business support organisation BRAVE Enterprise is running a series of practical training workshops during October to help promote, protect and grow small businesses. The sessions, which are being held at BRAVE’s offices in Upper York Street, include: Starting in Business Workshop Date: October 24 Time: 10am –...
A new welcome space for visitors to a community food-growing project has been created by more than 100 employees from Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon’s operations department. The two-week project, the second in collaboration with Avon Wildlife Trust, involved the Burges Salmon volunteer workforce clearing and replacing old...
Specialist intellectual property (IP) firm Mewburn Ellis has further expanded its Bristol team with the appointment of partner Andrew Mears. A qualified patent attorney in the UK, Europe and Singapore, Andrew, pictured, joins Mewburn Ellis’s well-established engineering group from rival Withers & Rogers’ Bristol office, where he worked for...
Business West’s Skills West team is running a series of business skills workshops throughout autumn covering topics ranging from recruitment and flexible working to apprenticeships for small and medium-sized businesses and developing the workforce. The workshops take place across the West of England and are open to businesses from...
Nine new trainees have joined Bristol-headquartered law firm VWV, taking the total number to 23 - the highest-ever total for the firm. In addition to offering seats across all four of its offices in Bristol, London, Birmingham and Watford, VWV has introduced new seats, including charities in London and planning...
TLT, the Bristol-headquartered national law firm, has launched a regulatory affairs consultancy service to help digital businesses prepare for – and shape – public policy and regulation. The firm said the move created a unique industry knowledge base for mid-tier companies, putting them on a more equal footing with...
Housing law expert Paul Butterworth this week took up his new role as a partner in Regional law firm Ashfords’ Bristol-based real estate team. Paul, whose appointment was announced in June, was previously a senior partner in the property team at Bristol-headquartered national firm TLT. During just over 15...
National law firm Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth has appointed a new family law solicitor to its Bristol office. Satya Bagga joins from Bristol and Portishead firm Metcalfes Solicitors as a newly qualified solicitor to the family law team. She has recently completed a focused training contract with a 12-month...
The venture capital team at Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has advised long-standing client Sussex Place Ventures on its part in a $10m (£7.53m) investment in healthcare tech firm Endomag. London-based Sussex Place Ventures joined London and Cambridge-based tech-focused investor Draper Esprit on the C round funding, which Endomag...
Bristol law firm Meade King has appointed experienced commercial property lawyer Manjinder Kang to its growing team. Manjinder, pictured, joins from the Bath office of national firm Stone King, where she was a commercial property licensed conveyancer advising individuals and businesses of all sizes. Prior to that she worked...
Bristol businesses are being challenged to come up with new and exciting ways to raise funds for city charities and voluntary groups as the first Bristol Giving Day approaches. Staged by Quartet Community Foundation, the independent charity that works across the West of England to support local philanthropists in...
The Bristol office of transatlantic law firm (WBD) Womble Bond Dickinson has donated around 200kg of food and drinks to East Bristol Foodbank as it faced one of its busiest periods over the summer school holidays. The donation was part of a firm-wide effort to support foodbanks across the...
