Samantha O’Sullivan, a solicitor with more than 25 years’ experience in private client and charity law work, has joined Wiltshire law firm Withy King as a consultant. Samantha, pictured, joins Withy King’s expanding private client practice from Bath law firm Mogers, where she was a partner. Based in its Swindon and Marlborough offices, the...
Turnover at law firm Thrings, which has its largest office in Swindon, rose by 4% to £21.5m in the year to last April, it has revealed. Profits increased by 12% to £4.9m. The firm, which also has offices in Bristol, Bath and London, has 51 members and employs 305 people, 180 of them fee-earners....
Accountants PwC have launched their annual search for the region’s best companies with the 2014 West of England Business of the Year Awards – the region’s most prestigious business accolades. Previous winners of the awards, now in their 26th year, read like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies, including Dyson, MITIE and,...
Swindon law firm Withy King provides a round-up of a few of the latest legal developments which may affect directors, in business as well as their private lives. Tax implications for home owners After MPs got caught ‘flipping’ their homes for a CGT (Capital Gains Tax) advantage, it must have grated. Chancellor George Osborne...
Withy King has strengthened its corporate and commercial law team in its Swindon office with the appointment of Rishi Ladwa as an associate. Rishi, pictured, who joins from Wansbroughs Solicitors in Devizes, advises clients on a wide range of issues including acquisitions and disposals; LLP, partnership and shareholders’ agreements; company formations, re-organisations and share...
Law firm Withy King, which has an office in Swindon, has been named as one of as the UK’s Top 100 Best Mid-Sized Companies to Work For. It has also been awarded the highly sought after Best Companies’ two-star accreditation. Inclusion in The Sunday Times table recognises the firm’s outstanding levels of staff engagement...
West law firm Thrings – which has its largest office in Swindon – has advised the shareholders of Wiltshire-based fuel distribution business Watson on its £117m sale to a major US group. As revealed by Swindon Business News a week ago, family-owned Watson, which began trading in 1957 and now has nearly 50 depots across...
Construction work has started on the UK’s largest solar power farm, thanks to the latest collaboration between law firm Thrings, which has its largest office in Swindon, and Royal Wootton Bassett-based land agency WebbPaton. Agricultural land specialists at Thrings and WebbPaton acted on behalf of the landowner of the 230-acre site near Didcot, including...
Chippenham-based renewable electricity supplier Good Energy is taking legal advice following a challenge to its plans to build a 28 megawatt (MW) solar energy site in East Dorset. The firm, which received planning consent for the project in November, said it understood a claim had been submitted to the Administrative Court for a judicial...
Stone King, the law firm with an office in Melksham, has appointed Rupert Poole as IT director as it continues to expand its specialist legal services to individuals and organisations. Rupert, pictured, joins from technology outsourcing and consultancy firm Principality IT in South Wales where he was IT director working with a wide range...
