A pilot community scheme launched by a group of Bristol firms to help budding young actors join Bristol Old Vic’s Young Company has awarded its first bursaries. The payments, at the end of the first year of the three-year pilot scheme, have been made to six talented youngsters who...
Bristol-based national law firm TLT has acted for international IT services group Sword in its £11.7m cross-border acquisition of UK-based Active Risk Group. NYSE-Euronext Paris-listed Sword operates in 15 countries with 1,000-plus staff. The acquisition of Active Risk Group's risk management software is a significant purchase for the group...
Expert advice from lawyers at Thrings, the M4 corridor legal firm with an office in Bristol, has helped save an iconic Bath pub. The Bell Inn, a popular live music venue on the city’s bohemian Walcot Street, was threatened with permanent closure when its former owners decided to sell. ...
Islamic finance specialists at West law firm Foot Anstey have worked on the £40m-plus acquisition of a student housing scheme by Gulf investors operating through a shari’ah-compliant real estate firm chaired by former Dragons’ Den star James Caan. London-based independent property advisory firm 90 North Real Estate Partners serves...
Bristol’s professional services sector is the most vibrant outside London, according to Blusource, the fast-growing legal, accountancy and banking sectors recruitment consultancy which opened an office in the city six month ago. Blusource, which launched its office in Temple Quay at the start of the year, has recently sealed...
We thought BrandSoup was alone in having opinions about the advisability or otherwise of government agencies getting “creative” with logos (see our recent blog – Bonfire of the Quango Logos). But following revelations of the US NSA’s acquisitive attitude to everyone’s emails and Facebook postings, this thorny topic is...
Directors and managers can gain tips on some of the most-common challenges of running a business through a new range of electronic booklets available for download on the new-look website of M4 corridor law firm Thrings. The booklets, written by commercial lawyers at the firm, which has an office in...
Bristol boutique law firm Temple Bright has provided support to cheese importer Futura Foods UK in a deal to sell a 50% stake in the business to Danish dairy company Nordex Foods. The pan-European deal is the latest in a long line of food industry successes for Temple Bright...
Bristol-based national law firm TLT has become the first in the UK to be recognised for making significant steps to ensure its legal services are accessible to clients who are deaf or have some level of hearing loss. It yesterday received the Deaf Law Quality Mark accreditation from the...
The Bristol office of national law firm Bond Dickinson has advised the management team at mixing console manufacturer Allen & Heath on their acquisition of the business. The £43m debt and equity deal was backed by independent private equity fund manager Electra Partners. Bond Dickinson has a long-standing relationship...
Bristol-headquartered national law firm TLT has appointed Mark Sage as an associate in its family team. Mark has more than 15 years' experience advising clients involved in family breakdowns, divorce, dissolution and separation and has extensive experience of international cases representing UK expats across the world. He is a...
More than a quarter of West law firms are at risk of failure in the next 12 months, according to an alarming new report. But the research by R3, the insolvency trade body, shows that the West’s expected failure rate of 28% over the next year is lower than...
Business turnaround and insolvency specialist Wilson Field has opened an office in Bristol as part of an expansion that takes it into the South West and Wales markets for the first time. The firm, formed in Sheffield in 2001, has opened its South West base at Broad Quay House...
