Law firm Shakespeare Martineau unveils Bristol promotions

By Peter Davison

17 May 2023

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Clockwise from left: Heledd Wyn, Richard Hill, Emma Burnett, Nick Jones

Law firm Shakespeare Martineau has announced two Bristol-based promotions and confirmed the hub’s office head and deputy.

Becoming an equity member in legal and professional services group Ampa, of which Shakespeare Martineau is a leading legal brand, is partner Heledd Wyn.

Heledd is a private client expert at the firm’s Bristol hub. Specialising in future planning, Heledd provides advice and guidance in respect of wills, powers of attorney, long-term care, and asset protection for both private individuals and business owners. She also provides advice on inheritance tax and trusts.

In the South West residential conveyancing team, Emma Burnett has been promoted to associate.

Specialising in property law, Emma acts for clients wishing to buy or sell, complete transfers and re-mortgage residential property.

Emma has developed a breadth of experience across a range of property transactions from small retirement flats to large property portfolio work, as well as assisting people with the extension of their lease terms.

Meanwhile, commercial property partner Richard Hill will retain his role as head of the Bristol office for a further three years, supported by new deputy Nick Jones, employment partner in the South West hub.

Across a three-year term, the office heads will lead plans to grow the firm in Bristol, which employs nearly 60 people – playing a critical role in shaping a positive and collaborative culture with the regional business community and in supporting local people.

The appointments and promotions are part of Shakespeare Martineau’s ongoing commitment to reinforcing and strengthening its footprint and expertise in the UK – providing legal and professional services support to businesses, leaders and people at the heart of communities.ecr

Richard Hill said: “Location means a lot to us and our clients and, unlike other firms that are retreating from local office footprints, we are expanding.

"As well as widening our talent pool, this benefits our clients by giving them direct access to legal experts who know and are embedded in the local market, and who are supported by our full-service national offering.”

Heledd said: “I’m so thrilled to have been promoted into the membership. There are huge opportunities available to me and the wider team from being part of Ampa; from additional training, a greater pool of experts to specialist support from business operations teams. It’s great to see the firm investing in its people and in Bristol.”

Shakespeare Martineau, as part of legal and professional services group Ampa, is a certified B Corporation, meaning it is legally required to consider the impact of business decisions on its people, customers, suppliers, communities and environment, ensuring a balance between purpose and profit.

Ampa, which employs more than 1,400 people over 18 hubs across the UK, is recruiting lateral hires and teams and proactively looking for like-minded businesses to join the group.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.