Thrings wins at inaugural entrepreneur awards event in Bristol

By Peter Davison

5 October 2023

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Thrings have been recognised at the first-ever EntreConf Awards

Law firm Thrings’ efforts to support fledgling businesses and start-ups across the South West has been recognised at the first-ever EntreConf Awards.

The awards event, which was held at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery on Thursday, September 28, is a celebration of entrepreneurialism in the region, recognising the biggest success stories across a range of categories. A brand-new event, the awards support the long-running conference of the same name.

Picking up the award for Best Legal Advisor, Thrings was well represented on the night with partners Kate Westbrook and Mike Tomlin joined by fellow lawyers from the corporate and commercial team Joe Watkins and Georgina James.

In recognising Thrings as the winner, the judges’ feedback highlighted the firm’s long-standing role in bringing entrepreneurs and funders together, helping to broker successful business relationships on behalf of their clients.

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Kate Westbrook, head of commercial, who accepted the award on behalf of the firm, said: “It is an absolute privilege to have won the first EntreConf legal award and to have shared the stage with some very worthy winners on what was a fantastic night.

“Lawyers are really just the supporting act for entrepreneurs, helping them to take the necessary risks that lead to their success and it is always a delight to see our clients go on to achieve their goals. This award is very much the icing on the cake."

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.