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New tax director at Ernst & Young
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Ernst & Young has taken on a new entrepreneurial tax specialist.
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Decision to hold interest rates tipped to boost Midland exporters
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Midland business leaders have welcomed the decision by the Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to keep interest rates at an all time low of 0.5 per cent, despite fears of surging inflation and commodity prices.
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Focus Solutions shareholders agree Standard Life takeover
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Shareholders of Midland software firm Focus Solutions have accepted a £42 million offer for a takeover by Standard Life.
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Endless snaps up Niagara Lasalle in £27m deal
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Willenhall-based steel firm Niagara Lasalle (Ƶ) has been taken over by investor Endless in a £27 million deal.
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Rates set to stay unchanged despite inflationary pressure
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The Bank of England is expected to leave interest rates untouched on Thursday despite fears over surging inflation and commodity prices.
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Wragge & Co litigators score design rights victory for Dyson in China
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Wragge & Co’s intellectual property team has secured a significant victory for global design and engineering business Dyson in a high-profile design rights case.
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KPMG partner joins Birmingham Press Club board
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KPMG partner Ian Greaves has joined the board of Birmingham Press Club.
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Law firm Weightmans in merger talks
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Birmingham law firm Weightmans has revealed that it is in merger talks with north-west firm Mace and Jones and Vizards Wyeth, based in the south-east.
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Eversheds aiming to grow local client base, says new senior partner
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The new senior partner at one of Birmingham’s top law firms has said growing its local client base will be one of his priorities after taking on the role.
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BCRS loan helps firm through downturn
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Loans company Black Country Reinvestment Society has helped an electrical company grow its business through the recession.
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Firms expect private equity bounce
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Business leaders in the Midlands are expecting a bounce in private equity-backed deal activity in the first quarter of 2011, according to new research.
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Barclays Corporate adds to debt finance
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Barclays Corporate has boosted its Midland-based debt finance team with the appointment of Stephanie Ferries and the recent promotion of Andy McDonald.
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Chantrey Vellacott DFK set for move to The Calthorpe Estate
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Chantrey Vellacott DFK is relocating its Birmingham office to a flagship property on The Calthorpe Estate in Edgbaston.
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Midlands sees 45 per cent drop in administrations
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The region saw a rapid fall in administrations last year according to new research – but experts warn that companies are still walking a tight rope to survive.
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Linpac sells non-core firms in Midland-advised deal
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Solihull-based plastic packaging manufacturer Linpac Group has sold five non-core businesses to a private equity firm in a deal advised in the West Midlands.
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David Beswick named senior partner at Eversheds
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International law firm Eversheds has announced HR partner David Beswick as its new senior partner in Birmingham.
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Birmingham law firm Hammonds completes merger with Squire Sanders
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One of Birmingham’s top law firms has begun trading following the completion of its merger with a giant US law practice.
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Hammonds completes its merger with US law practice
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One of Birmingham’s top law firms has completed its merger with a giant US law practice.
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Weightmans recognised for its dedication to equality
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Weightmans has been recognised for its dedication to equality in the workplace in the 2010 Diversity League Table.
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Solicitors raise £10,000 for charity
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Harrison Clark solicitors has raised £10,000 for charity as part of Will Aid’s “Make a Will Month”.The regional law firm donated the time of two of its associate solicitors from its Cheltenham and Worcester offices, Hayley Sanders and Rhian Rees, to take part in the national campaign which not only encourages people to make a will but also raises money for some of the Ƶ’s leading charities.
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Birmingham-based legal trainee elected to Junior Lawyers Division national committee
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Birmingham-based legal trainee Sarah Bolt has been elected to the national executive committee of the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD).Ms Bolt, who works in the commercial litigation and insolvency team within the Birmingham office of Irwin Mitchell, began the role in December 2010.
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Businessman fights on over assault case
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A businessman who was left in a coma and on a life support machine for 15 days after a violent nightclub attack is renewing pressure on the Crown Prosecution Service to bring fresh charges against his assailant.
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Rewarding December for Clearwater
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Birmingham-based Clearwater Corporate Finance has scooped three awards in December and is expecting an increase in cross-border deals in 2011.
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Finance4Business moves head office to Warwickshire
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A growing financial brokerage is moving its head office from Derby to Warwickshire as it rolls out plans to expand the number of franchises it operates.
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