Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has advised one of its longstanding landowner clients on the sale of a site near Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, which will be developed to build over 700 homes.

Womble Bond Dickinson has grown its private wealth team with a number of new appointments across the firm's UK offices. Five new lawyers and wealth professionals have joined the team in the past couple of months.

The headlines over the last few days have been dominated by the Government's plans to increase National Insurance Contribution rates by 1.25 percentage points in order to fund health and social care costs in England. Amongst all of this noise some investors may have missed that an identical increase to dividend tax rates has also been proposed.

The private wealth team at law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has been highly ranked in the 2021 Chambers and Partners High Net Worth guide, published last week (Friday 23 July). Published annually, the guide covers private wealth management work and related specialisms in key jurisdictions around the world, featuring leading lawyers and law firms of choice for individuals and families.

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has been awarded the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP) Platinum Employer Partner accreditation, the highest of three accreditation levels awarded under STEP's Employer Partnership Programme.

Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has strengthened its Private Wealth team in Newcastle with the recruitment of Alison Bragg who joins from Nicholson Portnell in Hexham.