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Mowgli Street Food Limited has won £3.45m of private equity funding to roll out its restaurants across the UK.

O’Connors is delighted to have won the ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Law Award’ at the Liverpool Law Society Legal Awards 2017 which took place at Titanic Hotel in Liverpool last Friday evening. The award was in recognition of the firm’s support to the UK legal sector.

Loading systems specialist Joloda International has undergone a buy-in management buyout (BIMBO) that “underpins and secures” the company’s future.

The founders of a Manchester-based law firm Hall Brown Family Law have hailed its first 12 months in business as “nothing short of fabulous” having attracted a number of very high profile clients.

We all know that nothing in life is certain. As the actor, director and philosopher Clint Eastwood once said: “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.” He also said he’d tried being reasonable and didn’t like it. They should teach this kind of philosophy in law school.

A Liverpool-headquartered property restoration specialist has repaid the investment made by funding provider Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF) three years ahead of schedule.

As the Queen starts to relax after her Christmas broadcast and I rise with a flush in my cheeks to carve our Cambridge Bronze, I will spare a thought for our cherished legal profession. Like the bird beneath my knife, it has had a good stuffing this year.

Had Isambard Kingdom Brunel been a lawyer and not an engineer, suspension bridges might have remained the domain of orthodontists and we might still be rowing wooden boats to the Balearics for our summer holidays.

With the Government, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Legal Services Board, the Law Society and the legal services regulators all flashing their sequined blouses like contestants on Strictly Dumb Downing, the idea of leaving a ‘secure’ job and setting up a new law firm is likely to feature alongside bareback-rodeo and base-jumping on most people’s personal risk register.

We’ve started serving English Brexit Tea in our office. Some say it leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste while others find it quite refreshing.