National accountancy firm Grant Thornton has expanded its South West and Wales corporate finance advisory team after what it described as an exceptional period of deal activity. Adam Hughes has joined the team from NatWest Structured Finance to lead its debt advisory function while two young dealmakers, James Smart and Thomas Bew, have also...
Time Finance, the Bath-headquartered alternative finance provider, has expanded its national sales presence with the arrival of Jonathan Johnson as a business development manager in its invoice finance team. The firm said the appointment reflected its ambitious growth plans to expand while helping more businesses access the funding they need to grow and...
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has appointed former Somerset defence electronics industry executive Steve Hill as the new chair of its South West region. Steve, pictured, has been vice-chair since July and succeeds Muir Macdonald following the completion of his three-year term as chair. In his new role Steve will be the voice for South...
If Covid has taught us anything, it is the importance of relationships. It has made us re-evaluate who we see, how we are perceived and how we care for others. This is true of our personal relationships but equally true of the working relationships we have with clients, partners and employees. The current recruitment...
Regional accountancy group Bishop Fleming plans to grow its VAT offering following the appointment of a specialist tax partner. Len Dean joins as VAT partner and will head its VAT team. The move takes the partnership at the firm, which has an office in Bath, to 34 while following recent record recruitment its overall headcount...
Business groups have welcomed a number of measures in Wednesday’s Budget but said Chancellor Rishi Sunak could have done more to encourage investment. The CBI, which speaks on behalf of 190,000 businesses of all sizes and sectors, described it overall as business friendly, with its director-general Tony Danker saying the Chancellor had shown a...
National commercial property and investment company LCP has promoted Adam Martin, associate director in its South West, to director. Adam, pictured, joined LCP in 2019 and has more than 13 years’ experience in commercial property. He will remain head of the office in Bristol - which opened in 2019 – with responsibility for the asset management of...
Last week Bath Business News revealed how the area’s top law firms and their highly performing individuals were celebrating their inclusion in the UK’s most-respected legal directory in practice areas spanning corporate and commercial, employment and dispute resolution. Here we continue our coverage by looking at how they performed in areas such as family law, commercial property and...
Lizzy Painter, a solicitor in the Bath head office of law firm Royds Withy King, has become the new regional chair of a group representing the professional voice of young people in the UK built environment industry. Generation for Change (G4C) aims to drive change in the industry by developing and connecting its future...
Bath’s top law firms and their highly performing individuals are celebrating their inclusion in the UK’s most-respected legal directory – demonstrating once again the depth of expertise in the city. The Legal 500 is the leading annual guide to law firms and solicitors in the UK, with sections highlighting the best in the regions...
