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Lloyds shareholders descend on Birmingham for crunch vote
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Lloyds Banking Group will ask 2.8 million private shareholders to back its £13.5 billion fundraising today as it looks set to stage the biggest deal of its kind in º£½ÇÊÓƵ history.
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Anthony Collins takes on consultant to green up clients
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Lawyers at Anthony Collins Solicitors have taken on an environmental consultancy to help them green up their property clients.
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Supreme Court lifts threat to free banking
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The immediate threat to free banking was lifted today by the Supreme Court.
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Mortgage lending hits a two-year high
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New figures show the number of mortgages approved for house purchase rose to its highest level for nearly two years during October as buyers continued to return to the market.
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Lloyds Banking Group reveals cash call details
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Lloyds Banking Group has set out details of a £13.5 billion º£½ÇÊÓƵ record cash call to the bank’s army of 2.8 million private shareholders.
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Law firm rankings to be published in The Birmingham Post
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Birmingham’s law firms will be eyeing up the competition with the publication of this year’s Chambers º£½ÇÊÓƵ legal ‘bible’.
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Lloyds Banking Group to axe another 700 workers
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The finance industry was hit with a pre-Christmas jobs blow today with news of more than 700 job losses.
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FBC Manby Bowdler licenses waste water technology worth millions to entrepreneur
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Regional firm FBC Manby Bowdler has licensed a new piece of technology that could revolutionise the food industry – and bring millions into a Midlands firm.
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Absolute Invoice Finance changes hands for second time in a year
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Absolute Invoice Finance, which has an operation in Birmingham on Great Charles Street, is changing hands after being merged with Aldermore Bank.
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Inflation rises for first time since February
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Official figures have shown the first pick-up in the rate of inflation since February.
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Wragge advises on £300m cancer drug deal for client Astex
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The life sciences team at Birmingham’s Wragge & Co has advised its client Astex Therapeutics on a linkup potentially worth £300m with healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline.
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Higgs & Sons to create 'largest legal office in the Black Country'
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Law firm Higgs & Sons is creating the largest legal office in the Black Country by combining two of its offices into one new building.
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Peter Brewer joins growing dispute team at Weightmans
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Weightmans has appointed associate Peter Brewer to its growing commercial dispute resolution and insolvency team in the Midlands.
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Higgs & Sons creates largest Black Country law office with Brierley Hill move
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Law firm Higgs & Sons is creating the largest legal office in the Black Country by combining two of its offices into one new building.
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British SMEs 'still struggling to access finance'
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The £200 billion injected into the financial system to boost lending has not filtered through to Britain’s small and medium-sized businesses, according to a new survey.
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New fines of £500k for law firms that lose data
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Law firms could be at risk of fines of up to half a million pounds if they lose personal information about clients.
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Lord mayor marks 100 years of youth justice in Birmingham
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A plaque has been put up to mark 100 years since the opening of the first youth court in Birmingham.
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Two new trainees for Alsters Kelley
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Warwickshire law firm Alsters Kelley has awarded training contracts to two of its team members – Anjalee Parmar and Balraj Singh Jagdev.
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US lawyers paid £3m to dispose of Solihull office
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American law firm Reed Smith paid more than £3 million to dispose of its Solihull office last year, it has emerged.
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Solihull firm S&U takes over rival J&C Smith
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Home credit and motor finance specialist S&U has bought out a Teesside-based rival.
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Private client duo are latest specialists at Frisby & Co
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Stafford law firm Frisby & Co has brought in two new specialist solicitors to its commercial and private client department.
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PwC warns of further job cuts for lawyers
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Job losses and potential mergers could be on the cards for some of Birmingham’s lawyers, financial experts have warned.
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Solihull firm S&U takes over rival J&C Smith
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Home credit and motor finance specialist S&U has bought out a Teesside-based rival.
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Challinors looking further afield
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While law firms are seeing new business come into Birmingham from London, one local outfit says hyper-local is the way to go for lawyers.
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