Bristol Water has officially launched a business incubator to boost innovation and create a new raft of suppliers. Called The Workshop, it encourages small, start-up businesses to help solve business challenges. Businesses can take advantage of Bristol Water’s equipment and facilities, access to data and physical assets, access to...
More than 50 staff at national law firm TLT abseiled down the side of its iconic 15 storey One Redcliff Street headquarters building in a fundraiser for Children’s Hospice South West, the firm’s charity of the year. Staff are aiming to raise more than £7,000 as part of a...
Osborne Clarke was named Large Law Firm of the Year and Kelcey & Hall Firm of the Year with up to 15 Partners at the Bristol Law Society annual awards dinner last night. Osborne Clarke employment lawyer Phillip Chivers made it a double for his firm by landing the...
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is staged in Bristol next week for its seventh year to once again support women to build and grow sustainable businesses. Hundreds of women self-starters are expected to attend the day-long event on Friday, October 19, to hear, learn from and be inspired by...
UWE Bristol pro vice-chancellor Donna Whitehead is among a group of business leaders from across the country competing to gain national recognition as one of the UK’s top board-level entrepreneurs. Donna, pictured, who is also executive dean of the university’s Faculty of Business and Law, will line up alongside...
A free cyber security workshop for small firms is being staged next week by Bristol business support organisation Brave Enterprise as police warn that SMEs are being targeted by online criminals. The presentation on Wednesday, October 17, will teach small business owners how to protect themselves from the latest...
The Bristol office of transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has welcomed its 2018 trainee intake. The six first-year trainee solicitors – Ben Powell, Samuel Urry, Sian Burns, Lucy Thorn, Harry Rouse and Joe Perry – are now working in the office’s corporate & commercial, dispute resolution, real estate...
Lawyers at Bristol-based Meade King have completed their 300th deal involving dental practices as it continues to grow its leading position in the sector. The firm, nationally recognised for its high-quality commercial and regulatory to dentists, is now advising on a further 89 dental practice sales or purchases. Its...
South West law firm Foot Anstey has appointed Patrick Wetherall as a partner in its real estate division. He joins from the Bristol office of transatlantic firm Womble Bond Dickinson, where he practised for 16 years and was a partner for 10. Patrick, pictured, a property litigation specialist, has...
