Business in East Anglia

Based in Bishop’s Stortford, we are a small team providing independent, tailored corporate finance services to our clients in East Anglia. At Forward, we help owners and managers of businesses to plan for and achieve their goals. Whether that is a business sale, structuring and completing a management buy-out or making a strategic acquisition, we are committed to delivering success for our clients. We are with you from the start to completion, ensuring your transaction is properly planned and efficiently executed. Planning, thinking and moving you FORWARD. Please visit us at www.forwardcf.co.uk How can we help? We focus only on transactions, helping business...

Property developer Jaynic concentrates its development activities throughout East Anglia with a focus on the A14 between Cambridge and Felixstowe with 7.39m sq ft of warehouse and business space under development or in the pipeline. In a joint venture with Mid-Suffolk Council it has just won planning consent for 2.45m sq ft of business, high-tech and warehouse space at the Gateway 14 site adjacent to Junction 50 of the A14 at Stowmarket. This site was further buoyed earlier in the year by the Government’s decision to award it freeport status and there is already strong interest from both business...

The firm: Thompson Smith and Puxon can trace its roots back to 1879 and has since grown to be one of the leading law firms in Essex, with 12 partners, some 70 employees, and offices in Colchester and Clacton. It offers a range of legal advice to businesses and individual clients. Its specialist practice areas, with accredited lawyers and attentive support staff, ensure clients receive the most professional and practical advice available.   Business services team: TSP looks after the business issues that matter to its clients whether they are large or small. The corporate and commercial team includes a number of...

Rogers & Norton is an established and successful law firm based in Norfolk, with offices in Norwich and Attleborough and meeting facilities in London, as it expands its services and client base. We offer a specialist range of legal services to both businesses and individuals and are committed to offering excellent service to all our clients. It is important to us that we ensure that all legal matters are dealt with the personal attention to detail and efficiency that they deserve. We use our proven, specialist expertise in all areas of the law to achieve the best possible outcomes. Rogers and Norton...

Sackers started as a traditional scrap merchant in the 1920’s. In today’s offering we’ve expanded to commercial waste disposal solutions and skip hire. With more and more pressure on businesses to take ownership of their environmental impact, we are offering a free waste audit to Suffolk businesses to identify where they can improve efficiencies, improve recycling ability, reduce carbon footprint and reduce vehicle movement. More often than not we can reduce costs too and we aim to reduce vehicle disturbance on your premises and ensure as much is recycled as possible.  Our own business goal is to recycle over 90% of what...

Ashtons Legal is an award winning law firm with a strong focus on customer service.  The legal teams provide a wide range of advice to businesses and private individuals regionally, nationally and internationally from offices across East Anglia. Ashtons Legal has specialist lawyers ready to help clients with: agriculture and estates, commercial property, corporate and commercial services, construction, dispute resolution, employment law, franchising, HR advice and transport and regulatory matters family law and mediation, private client matters including wills, powers of attorney, probate and tax and trusts, residential conveyancing, French legal services and inheritance disputes medical negligence, personal injury and industrial disease claims. Ashtons Legal...

At Larking Gowen, we’re here for the long term. Whether you’re a large organisation or an individual, we take the time to get to know you, your business and your goals. We forge long-term relationships, often through generations of families, so we’ll deliver timely advice whenever you or your business needs it. We'll work with you as your business grows, helping you make the right decisions along the way. Our values are about service and commitment, both to our clients and our people. We build strong, dedicated teams that share knowledge and expertise for the benefit of all our clients, delivering a friendly one-to-one...

Since its launch 12 years ago, Penn Commercial has grown to become one of the most respected commercial property agents in the east of England. The team of six, which is based in Fox's Marina, offers a wide ranging and award winning service to clients in a variety of sectors. The team is made up of negotiators, property managers and administrators and supported by consultants providing additional specialist services. Managing director, Vanessa Penn, said: "One of our key strengths is that we have a finger on the pulse of what is going on locally. We know where the demand is and how to...

Intellectual Property Protection, Advice & Strategy Our patent and trade mark attorneys provide practical, commercially-focused advice to businesses across the UK, Europe and worldwide. Services Patent Applications  Trade Mark Registration Design Registration IP Searches & Watching IP Renewals IP Oppositions & Litigation IP Advice & Strategy IP Portfolio Management IP Valuations IP Due Diligence For more information on how we can help please call 01206 571187 or email mail@sandersons.co.uk www.sandersons.co.uk What our clients think “They are absolutely superb – they have done a great job for us. They are responsive and know what they are doing. I don’t hesitate in putting anything into their hands. Their pricing...

About Grant Thornton UK LLP What does business need now? An adviser that offers a different experience. A better experience. One that delivers technical expertise and a service that goes beyond. Personal, proactive, and agile. That’s Grant Thornton. We are the UK member firm of a global network that employs 58,000 people in 135 countries. We combine global scale with local insight and understanding to give you the assurance, tax, and advisory services you need to realise your ambitions. We go beyond business as usual, so you can too. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships. Whether you’re growing in one...

Prettys Solicitors is one of the Eastern region's leading law firms with extensive experience in providing legal services and advising on law for businesses, public sector, social enterprises and individuals. Our firm offers trusted legal assistance across East Anglia, London, the UK and overseas. Our client service is second to none and we draw on our legal expertise to deliver great results and peace of mind on every occasion. Providing expert advice in every area Our business clients benefit from exceptional legal advice on corporate and commercial law, employment law, health and care, commercial property, dispute resolution, transport and logistics, tech and retail....

Gotelee Solicitors LLP is a full service law firm in Suffolk. The firm has a well established presence throughout the County acting for private individuals, families in business and organisations. We are competitive on price, offering fixed fees across many areas of law. Our offices are based in Ipswich, Hadleigh, Felixstowe and Woodbridge. Gotelee is the largest purely Suffolk law firm and is proud of its heritage in the county. Our reputation is one of reliability with a genuine focus on client care. Our commercial lawyers are well known and respected in the business community and our private client teams demonstrate...

- East Anglia’s leading Facilities Management and contract services provider High-profile contract wins and major new ventures are ensuring that Norse Commercial Services is the leading East Anglian based Facilities Management (FM) and contract services provider, and one of the region’s biggest success stories. Bosses at Norse are delighted that the fast-growing company is boosting the regional economy and providing job security, as it develops new business both across the Eastern Counties and nationally. “Every day of every year, Norse’s work is touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in communities here in the East of England, and many...

Birketts is a top 100 UK law firm with offices in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, Norwich and London.  Our lawyers deliver expert legal advice combined with a high quality and personalised service.  Our clients trust us to achieve a solution that is right for them however difficult or challenging the circumstances.  That trust has been earned over time and sets the standard upon which our reputation is based. Alongside our core business areas of corporate and commercial, commercial property, commercial and personal litigation and private client law, we have leading solicitors in specialist areas of the law such as shipping and...

At Barclays, we are fully committed to supporting our clients, in particular, helping them to fulfil their growth potential.  In this Brexit era many businesses will be reassessing their plans for growth and may need to re-plan or increase the resilience of their finances. It's in times like these when strong banks should stand tall and help ensure the stability in our economy by continuing our commitment to lend – and that is exactly what Barclays is doing. We continue to enjoy working with existing and new clients and aim to ensure they are at the heart of everything we do....

Scrutton Bland is a leading provider of financial services to both business and private clients. From our offices in Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, we have been providing tax, accountancy, insurance and independent financial planning advice to clients throughout the UK for over one hundred years. With so many specialists working together, we can deliver a broad range of professional advisory services to our clients, but our approach is more than that. Our philosophy is simple: we believe in delivering clear, jargon-free advice and in finding effective solutions for our clients. Jason Fayers Managing Partner Tel: 0330 058 6559 Email: hello@scruttonbland.co.uk Web: www.scruttonbland.co.uk...

Fenn Wright is East Anglia’s leading, independently owned partnership of chartered surveyors, commercial property experts and estate agents, employing over 150 people. Our surveyors and agents offer an unrivalled range of professional skills and local market knowledge, and we aim to provide industry-leading levels of service. We have a network of offices across Essex and Suffolk with great links to London and represent a wide spectrum of clients. Whether working with investors and developers, landlords and tenants, property companies, pension funds, business owners, private individuals or local authorities, we know the sector inside out and are on hand to help with all...

Meet Cambridge is the official conference and events bureau for venues at the University of Cambridge, the Colleges, hotels and other unique properties in and around the city. With a choice of over 50 spaces in and around Cambridge, from ancient Tudor College halls to contemporary lecture theatres, the Meet Cambridge portfolio has a venue for every type of event and budget, both in-person and hybrid. The service is free of charge, saves you time and there’s no obligation. With one quick enquiry the team at Meet Cambridge can check availability at all suitable venues for you. Versatile spaces There’s huge versatility, with many...

Based in Ipswich, Inform Direct is a creator of award-winning company secretarial software which helps both business owners and accountancy practices to meet statutory obligations for limited companies. The software currently supports compliance for more than 200,000 companies throughout the UK and is regularly reviewed and updated to meet emerging requirements. For business owners If you are an entrepreneur or director, Inform Direct makes it easy for you to manage statutory company records, including Companies House filings and updates. This means you no longer need to manually maintain paper records or struggle with complex, outdated software which gives you more time to focus...

While Wyboston Lakes Resort is well-known for its superb conference, training and leisure facilities, it also offers a wide choice of first class workplace solutions designed for today’s way of working. Wyboston Lakes Resort has developed Landing Pad, a multi-faceted workplace solution offering serviced offices, branded space for training and coworking options. With ‘adaptability’ at the core, the Wyboston Lakes Resort’s experienced team is committed to creating and maintaining a space that works for the business, its owners and their teams, and is flexible for their changing needs. The serviced office proposition also includes a new build opportunity of 11,000 sq...