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New PE backing for specialist technical distributor
17 Apr 2024
A distributor of critical products to the process and manufacturing industries has secured new private equity backing.
NVM Private Equity has backed a management buyout at MRO+ Solutions, with the business acquired from Cairngorm Capital Partners.
NVM Private Equity has backed a management buyout at MRO+ Solutions, with the business acquired from Cairngorm Capital Partners.
The end of Multiple Dwellings Relief: a blow to Build to Rent
07 Mar 2024
The ability to apply for Multiple Dwellings Relief (MDR) is essential to the delivery of vitally needed housing by the Build to Rent (BTR) sector. How concerned should you be by the recent Spring Budget announcing the abolition of MDR for transactions with an effective date on or after 1 June 2024?
Spring Budget 2024: top tax takeaways
07 Mar 2024
Following the Chancellor's Spring Budget announcement on 6 March 2024, Ronan Lowney, Tax Partner at Womble Bond Dickinson, shares his top takeaways from his area of expertise.
Accelerating future aims as WBD helps The AA motor into a new home
14 Feb 2024
The UK’s leading roadside assistance provider, The AA, has agreed a deal with support from international law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) to move into new premises housed in the historic Grade II listed redevelopment of Basingstoke's Mountbatten House.
Moving from its former home of Fanum House where the organisation had been based for 50 years, The AA will now operate out of nearby development The Plant, a redesign of Mountbatten House which delivers a modern, best-in-class office fit for the needs of the association.
Moving from its former home of Fanum House where the organisation had been based for 50 years, The AA will now operate out of nearby development The Plant, a redesign of Mountbatten House which delivers a modern, best-in-class office fit for the needs of the association.
Womble Bond Dickinson advises Bovill on acquisition by Ocorian
12 Feb 2024
Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised specialist regulatory consultancy firm Bovill on its acquisition by Ocorian, a specialist global provider of financial and corporate administration services and regulatory solutions.
The acquisition of Bovill will enhance Ocorian's global regulatory and compliance platform to meet growing demand from asset managers and financial institutions for regulatory advice and compliance support.
The acquisition of Bovill will enhance Ocorian's global regulatory and compliance platform to meet growing demand from asset managers and financial institutions for regulatory advice and compliance support.
Womble Bond Dickinson advises Keswick on pre-pack deal acquisition
31 Jul 2023
International law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has advised Keswick Flooring, one the UK's leading online direct to consumer hard flooring brands, and a subsidiary of Nestware Holdings, the sister company of household brand Carpetright, on its acquisition of Coventry-headquartered UK Flooring Direct (UKFD).
Womble Bond Dickinson advises Drummond Central on its transition to employee ownership
27 Apr 2023
International law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised Newcastle-based Drummond Central, a 60-strong independent creative agency, on its transition to employee ownership. This sees the business being acquired by a newly formed Employee Ownership Trust, thus ensuring it continues to run in a way that protects the agency and all its people.
Budget 2023 Comment: Everything, Everywhere, Enterprise, Employment, EIS, Energy costs and (err) a big giveaway for pensions
16 Mar 2023
Wednesday marked the first Spring Budget for Chancellor Jeremy Hunt following his Autumn Statement last November. He built it around four 'Es'.
With mild echoes of the ill-fated mini-Budget under Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, albeit with less than that full-splurge agenda, plus full OBR input and prior consultation on many if not all policy changes, this was a pro-growth budget. Hence, given some improved news on the public finances, there were measures aimed at incentivising business investment ("Enterprise"), keeping people in work ("Employment"), announcement of phased changes to support working families with early years education and wrapround childcare, that having been identified as an important supply-side reform ("Education") and initiatives to address geographic disparities in the UK ("Everywhere").
With mild echoes of the ill-fated mini-Budget under Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, albeit with less than that full-splurge agenda, plus full OBR input and prior consultation on many if not all policy changes, this was a pro-growth budget. Hence, given some improved news on the public finances, there were measures aimed at incentivising business investment ("Enterprise"), keeping people in work ("Employment"), announcement of phased changes to support working families with early years education and wrapround childcare, that having been identified as an important supply-side reform ("Education") and initiatives to address geographic disparities in the UK ("Everywhere").
WBD advises shareholders of EnAppSys on sale to global private equity investor
31 Jan 2023
International law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised the shareholders of EnAppSys, a data and analytics provider, on its acquisition by The Riverside Company, a global private equity investor focused on the middle market.
Continuation of the Off-Payroll Working rules and what this means for business
19 Oct 2022
The previous Chancellor announced in the recent mini-Budget that the Government was intending to scrap the Off-Payroll Working rules from 6 April 2023. On 17 October 2022 however the Government confirmed that this is no longer the case.
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