We are pleased to have released another list of the free legal workshop sessions due to take place in 2013 on various topics of interest to businesses in South and West Wales.

Forthcoming workshops are taking place in Swansea and Haverfordwest over the spring and summer. If there is nothing that interests you at the moment, please do check our events page on a regular basis as we arrange them according to demand from our clients and contacts.

The Welsh economy as a whole is heavily reliant on SMEs, and they represent more than 90% of all businesses in west Wales. Securing finance and expertise is a key ingredient in helping many SMEs grow and evolve.

The recent introduction of a £40million Wales SME Investment Fund and £6million Wales Micro-business Loan Fund has allowed fund management company, Finance Wales,  to cater to an even wider range of businesses, including many which may not have qualified for investment through the Wales JEREMIE Fund.

Individuals and professionals across south-west Wales whose lives have been touched by brain injury are being urged to help raise funds for leading brain injury support charity, Headway, by attending the inaugural Headway Carmarthenshire Ball.

In recent years the Revenue has been keen to tighten up the rules relating to Inheritance Tax on agricultural property. Beverly Jones, Associate Solicitor in the Rural Practice team at JCP Solicitors explains more: