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Law firm Mills & Reeve pleased with modest income rise
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Law firm Mills & Reeve saw a small rise in sales and profits over the last year, while many rivals struggled to keep sales up.
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Shoosmiths team advises on £3.2m telecoms acquisition
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Midlands lawyers at Shoosmiths have advised the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) on its financial backing of a double acquisition by the GCI Telecoms Group.
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Financial services firm launches will writing service
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Sutton Coldfield-based financial services firm Towergate Financial will be linking up with a law firm to offer a will writing service for clients.
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Shakespeare Putsman appoints chartered surveyor as equity partner
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Birmingham law firm Shakespeare Putsman has started its first week working in a combined office after merging with local rivals Needham & James.
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John Bright Trophy: Dan Faizey's over to remember - or forget
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Crowd pleaser Dan Faizey continued his reign at as the tournament’s most unpredictable cricketer.
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Improvement for law firm Hammonds as partner profits rise by a third
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Law firm Hammonds has seen its per-partner profits rise by nearly a third, even as the firm as a whole shrank by six per cent.
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Ralph Lewis, head of No5 Chambers in Birmingham, dies
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Ralph Lewis QC, one of the best-known-names in the Bar in Birmingham, has died following a battle with cancer.
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LaSer º£½ÇÊÓƵ ready to join West Midlands £1bn club
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The billion-pound business club in the West Midlands is set to receive another member, after credit firm LaSer º£½ÇÊÓƵ said it will be recording a ten-figure turnover before the end of the year.
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St Philips Chambers launches mediation spin-off company
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Birmingham’s St Philips Chambers is launching a separate company of mediators and arbitrators to compete for work with solicitors and other barristers.
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Law firm sets up university course to fight mortgage fraud
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Midland firm Challinors has set up a joint venture with Birmingham loss adjuster QuestGates to create one of the first official mortgage fraud investigation qualifications in the country.
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HBJ Gateley Wareing wins Chinese auto work
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Midlands-based corporate lawyers at HBJ Gateley Wareing will be advising China’s third-largest car-maker after the it opened a research and development facility in the region.
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Bloomer Heaven and AFH agree joint venture
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A Birmingham-based accountancy firm has formed a joint venture with an independent wealth management and financial advice company.
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Barclays Corporate finances Birmingham student property development
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Barclays Corporate has provided senior debt finance to Liverpool-based developers The Iliad Group for a new £38 million student property development near Aston University in Birmingham.
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Clement Keys helps mac win back VAT
Banking & Finance
Accountancy firm Clement Keys has helped the relaunched Midland Arts Centre - now known as mac - to claim back £221,000 in wrongly-charged VAT.
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Nine new directors for law firm Wragge and Co
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Birmingham legal giant Wragge & Co has appointed nine new directors in a number of specialist practice areas.
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Mortgages set to become even more scare
Banking & Finance
Mortgage availability is expected to worsen during the third quarter of the year as lenders find it harder to raise funds.
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Lloyds Banking Group axes 650 jobs
Banking & Finance
Lloyds Banking Group said today that it would axe another 650 jobs and shut a site in Nottingham as part of a raft of changes.
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Buyout values soar in first half of 2010
Banking & Finance
The overall value of buyouts in the West Midlands for the first half of 2010 has already far exceeded last year’s whole-year figures, according to new research.
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KPMG through to John Bright Trophy semi-finals
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In a succession of  beautiful sunny summer evenings, runs flowed in the Lord’s Taverners John Bright Trophy last week and KPMG with their third successive win reached the corporate tournament semi-finals.
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Lawyers at Clarke Willmott advise on Edgbaston Priory tennis club development
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Lawyers at Clarke Willmott have been taken on by the Edgbaston Priory Club to advise on the development the club hopes mill make it a national player in the tennis world.
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Pain of VAT increase will spread beyond retailers, says PwC
Banking & Finance
The impact of the VAT increase announced in the chancellors Emergency Budget on Tuesday is going to have an effect far beyond the high street, according to tax experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in the Midlands.
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Arden Partners chief to step down and promote firm in India
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The head of Birmingham stockbroker Arden Partners has stepped down – to start a new job expanding the firm in India.
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Government to close 20 courts buildings in the West Midlands
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The Government has announced plans to close 20 court buildings across the West Midlands and Warwickshire.
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Partner profits jump by a third at law firm Pinsent Masons
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International law firm Pinsent Masons – which has a thriving Birmingham office on Colmore Square – saw partner profit levels jump by nearly a third in the last year, even as the company contracted.
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