Home working was imposed by necessity and has been a success. It is now the norm. Now nearly half of all employers are offering regular homeworking to more than half the workforce. The simple fact is that it’s all great news for business in terms of reducing the costs of leasing office premises and...
A team of corporate and employment lawyers from Bath-headquartered Royds Withy King has advised on a major cross-border deal in the drinks canning industry. Ireland-headquartered Bevcraft Group, which has mobile canning, can distribution and decoration facilities in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands, acquired competitor Them That Can with advice provided by Royds Withy...
Bath businesses are being invited to support a transformational skills programme that will create opportunities in the green economy for young people from the city. Green Skills for Jobs and Entrepreneurship has been launched against a backdrop of economic recovery following the Covid pandemic and the demand for 50,000 new jobs in the region by...
Bath-based workplace design-and-build consultancy Interaction has landed a multi million-pound contract to design international law firm Osborne Clarke’s new flagship office in Bristol. Interaction, which describes itself as on a mission to banish boring workplaces, will fit-out the interior of the new showpiece building, set to be one of the UK’s greenest office schemes...
Bath-headquartered national law firm Stone King has appointed Graeme Beattie to its international and cross-border team as a solicitor. Graeme will support the team’s clients on matters related to international succession, cross-border planning and overseas probate work, primarily for individuals and charities. Graeme previously worked for Nerine Fiduciary Group in St Peter Port, Guernsey, and...
Leading on more than 40 transactions worth a total of £150m-plus over the past year has put Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy Kings’s social care team in the running for a major award. The team has been shortlisted in the ‘Legal Advisers of the Year – Transactional’ category of the influential trade publication Health...
Bath change management consultancy Nine Feet Tall teamed up with Bristol Law Society to host an interactive workshop to discuss how law firms can adapt to the ever-changing legal landscape. Across the sector, the disruption of the pandemic, an increase in cybercrime and new regulations imposed by Brexit have meant firms have had to...
Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King has further boosted its expertise in insolvency dispute resolution with the appointment of Julie Killip as a partner. Julie, pictured, has joined from the London office of international commercial law firm Ince, where she spent nearly eight years as a partner and joint head of restructuring and insolvency. ...
BLB Solicitors, the regional law firm with offices in Bath, Bradford on Avon and Trowbridge, has promoted the heads of two of its team members to directors. Caroline Entwistle and Sarah Loveless joined the firm in 2019 and 2020 respectively, although both have practised in the area for many years. Caroline, pictured right, who...
Regional law firm Goughs Solicitors is offering to write not-for-profit and discounted Wills next month as part of its charity-of- the-year partnership with the Youth Adventure Trust. Single and joint Wills will be offered at a 50% discount by Goughs, with all proceeds going to the Youth Adventure Trust, the charity that uses...
