A new regional Prince’s Trust development committee has been set up by a group of leading business figures to help the organisation raise vital funds to support young people. The committee aims is to raise more than £1m during 2016-17 to go directly towards The Prince’s Trust in the region and help bring to...
An experienced solicitor who knows Bath’s property scene inside and out has joined law firm Royds Withy King’s residential property, farms and estates team in the city. Nicky Banks, pictured, who has almost 30 years’ practical experience of property law, arrives from Bath law firm Mogers Drewett. Prior to that she worked at another...
Business leaders from Bath and across the West of England will get their first chance to hear the views of the CBI’s recently appointed president and its incoming regional chair at the organisation’s annual dinner next week. The event is traditionally a high point of the region’s business calendar, attracting hundreds of senior businessmen...
Bath College is setting up a business academy to give students valuable industry experience at top companies across the region. More than 30 companies have been invited to attend the launch of the Bath Academy of Business at Bath College next Thursday (Sept 29). The evening will bring together potential partners and students who...
Bath’s largest law firm Royds Withy King is in the running for the region’s most prestigious legal award. The firm, the result of the recent merger between Withy King, which has two offices in Bath, and city of London practice Royds, is on the three-strong shortlist for the title of Bristol Law Society Law Firm...
Bath Business Show has announced its full seminar programme offering a wealth of invaluable advice and inspirational support for the city’s entrepreneurs. All the show’s seminars are free to attend and places can now be booked online. The speakers have been chosen to inspire as well as deliver wisdom. Among them is James Buckley...
Bath’s top law firms have been praised in the UK’s leading independent guide to the sector. Regional law firms Thrings and Royds Withy King, both of which have large offices in the town, are ranked among the South West’s ‘regional heavyweights’ by the Legal 500, which was published yesterday, while a number of their partners and specialists –...
A team of Bath-based corporate advisers have helped the UK subsidiary of a French firm with a major acquisition that involved complex cross-border negotiations. The corporate and commercial team at law firm Royds Withy King, tax advisers at Bishop Fleming and specialist technology merger and acquisition (M&A) advisers ICON Corporate Finance advised on the...
Eight Bath lawyers have been named among the leading individuals in the South West’s legal sector. The eight appear in the latest issue of Legal 500, the respected guide to legal services in the UK. They line up alongside ‘go-to’ lawyers from major legal firms in Bristol. Stuart Brazington and Louise Hart from the...
Bath law firm Mogers Drewett’s family team has launched a service dealing with surrogacy, fertility and adoption in response to the growing need for specialist legal advice in this fast-moving area. The service will offer advice on legal planning in surrogacy including international surrogacy, parental orders, pre-conception agreements, donor co-parenting agreements, donor disputes, embryo storage...
