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...
Mogers Drewett, the Bath-based law firm, has strengthened its links with Team Bath Netball by becoming its education partner. The firm will fund Team Bath Netball’s school workshop programme while there are also plans to stage a corporate netball tournament with Team Bath Netball early next year to raise funds for a local charity....
Confidence among West of England firms has slumped to its lowest level since 2012 as they continue to react to the EU referendum, according to a new survey. The latest quarterly ICAEW Business Confidence Monitor (BCM), which gauges how businesses view the economic prospects facing them over coming year, shows confidence falling into negative...
Hundreds of business owners from across the West of England are expected to attend the annual Bath Business Show next month as it returns bigger and better than previous years. Last year’s sold out event attracted more than 450 delegates and 55 exhibitors and organisers believe this year’s show on October 14 will be...
