A lawyer with more than a decade of experience acting for some of the UK’s richest people in complex divorce cases has joined regional law firm Royds Withy King’s Bath head office as a partner. Will MacFarlane, pictured, specialises in complex financial settlements on divorce, acting for clients with significant assets including businesses, offshore...
Bath law firm Mowbray Woodwards has strengthened its private client and family team with two key appointments. Jane Bamford-Graham joins the family team as an associate solicitor from Reeds Solicitors while Eirian Whitehead has become a member of its growing private client team as a solicitor. Jane, pictured right, is member of the Law...
Thrings, the regional law firm with a base in Bath, has restated its commitment to the London legal market by relocating its office there to a prime City location. The firm, which has had a base in the capital since 2007, has signed a 10-year lease on 5,640 sq ft (523 sq m) of...
Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Meg Moss, a specialist divorce lawyer and partner at Bath law firm Mowbray Woodwards, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Darkest Hour – really powerful with superb...
Bath’s ethical organisations have just two days left to submit their entries to the region’s Fairtrade Business Awards. Applications for the prestigious contest – now in its sixth year – close at midnight on Sunday. The awards recognise the contribution that businesses, organisations and institutes in the region make in support of Fairtrade by...
Bath-headquartered regional law firm Royds Withy King has strengthened its business development and marketing team with three senior hires as it seeks to increase its profile and revenues through a new strategy based on industry sectors. The arrival of Kevin Peake as director of business development, marketing and communications, along with Michael Cracknell as...
Amongst all the fears and anxieties facing a separating couple there is often a big question mark over the future of a family business, writes Meg Moss, partner & family solicitor at Mowbray Woodwards. This might range from a modest venture, run by a husband and wife in partnership, or a family-run limited company,...
Bath businesses have been urged to engage with their local communities to create programmes that help disadvantaged jobseekers into employment. The call to action came from a meeting of some of the South West’s most influential executives hosted by Business in the Community (BITC). The event drew on existing programmes that support inclusive employment...
Twelve leading individuals from the West of England’s business community have joined the board of the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The appointments, made at the LEP’s meeting on Wednesday, will boost it in bringing together representatives from business and universities with elected leaders to shape and develop the region’s future. LEP chair Prof Steve...
Specialist divorce and family law solicitor Sarah Jackson, a partner in the Bath office of regional firm BLB Solicitors, has become one of only a handful of lawyers in the UK to be able to consult directly with children during family mediation cases. Sarah, pictured, who heads BLB’s family team and has more than...
