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Adam and Alice discuss a merger for a global law firm, an accountancy firm's new office in Birmingham and a 700-home development in Birmingham.

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00:00A merger for a global law firm, an accountancy firm's new office and a 700 home development

00:05in Yorkshire.

00:06All featuring today's Business Briefing, brought to you by Shawbrooke.

00:09Good morning, Alex.

00:11Good morning, Adam. Are you okay?

00:15I'm very well, thank you. Are you?

00:18Good. Yeah, really good.

00:19Good. I'll kick us off today with a significant story for an accountancy firm, Bishop Fleming,

00:24which currently has offices spanning from Worcester in the West Midlands to Truro in

00:28the South West.

00:29We'll actually be adding Birmingham to its footprint from this month.

00:33The new Birmingham office, which is to be based in the Colmore Business District, will

00:37be announced in the coming weeks, but it's set to be the firm's ninth office and one

00:43of its largest.

00:44The firm's Birmingham plans are part of its Better Growth business strategy, which is

00:48designed to sort of double the size of the business organically.

00:52Now the company actually plans to add several hundred people to its headcount over the next

00:56few years, and I know Birmingham is a big part of this.

01:00Yeah, really good news for Birmingham and its talent pool.

01:02Certainly.

01:03Well, from an accountancy firm to a law firm, Clyde & Co, which, as you know, has offices

01:08across the UK and internationally, has merged with Dallas company Tillman Batchelor.

01:13So the move aims to support the expansion of its North American and international insurance

01:18practice.

01:19Tillman Batchelor specialises in the defence of first party and bad faith insurance litigation.

01:25They also provide advice and consultation.

01:29So as a result of the deal, Mark Tillman and Colin Batchelor from the firm have joined

01:33Clyde & Co's Dallas office.

01:35Their team of six people have also moved over.

01:38Now Carolina Gordon, who's Clyde & Co's senior partner, said the merger further reinforces

01:42its position as the leader in insurance coverage litigation.

01:47And we're moving on to a different note now, entering the world of property.

01:51Vistri Group and Miller Homes have acquired a site in Huddersfield, which has outline

01:55planning permission for 700 properties.

01:57The site, which is 3.5 kilometres southwest of the town centre, is located on a former

02:02industrial area and agricultural land.

02:05Now Vistri will build 469 mixed-tenure homes, including 50% affordable or private rented

02:10housing, with Miller Homes building 231 for the private market.

02:15The development will also include a care home and a convenience store, with the plans also

02:21providing a total of £1.3 million towards local schools and £900k towards local highways

02:27and sustainable transport improvements.

02:29Excellent.

02:30We're seeing a lot of these big schemes, aren't we, on former industrial sites coming forward?

02:33Definitely.

02:34It's becoming more common.

02:35Yeah.

02:36Well, to finish off, storage firm Storage Giant has revealed plans to expand into North

02:42Wales and the North West following its best ever year.

02:45So the business is actually headquartered in Newport, and in its last financial year

02:50they secured more than 6,000 additional customers.

02:53So obviously they've seen lots of growth, and they now want to expand that even further,

02:57and they're actively targeting sites in the North West and further afield.

03:02So a further eight sites are in the pipeline development, and they're set to complete in

03:07the next three years.

03:08There's also plans in place for bases in Kidderminster, Whitney and Willinghall.

03:12So yeah, really good news for them.

03:14Great.

03:15Thanks for that, Alice.

03:16That's it from us today.

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