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West Wales law firm Redkite Solicitors advised Cypriot-owned renewable energy company Egnedol on one of the most significant land purchases in Pembrokeshire. The deal saw the purchase of the former Gulf refinery at Waterston and the Royal Naval Armaments Dept (RNAD) Blackbridge site in Milford Haven. Egnedol intends to create a new renewable energy facility at the site, an investment which could rise up to £1.6billion over the next five years and hopes to create 560 jobs during the first phase of the investment. The renewable energy facility will convert biomass into a biogas to be used to produce green electricity or green liquid fuels. The heat and carbon dioxide captured from this process is to be used in food production businesses at the site. Egnedol also hopes to partner with Welsh universities to create a research and development facility on the site to develop further sustainable technologies. Partner Lucy Morris and associate Alun Price advised on the property...

West Wales law firm Redkite Law LLP has opened an office in the city centre of Cardiff. Redkite Law is an established law firm which has been serving the counties of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire for more than 100 years and is founded on the principle of specialist legal expertise. Its team of solicitors provide a full range of services to include company commercial, dispute resolution, employment, commercial property, family, wills, probate and estates, tax planning and trusts, conveyancing and injury claims and are proud to offer their services in both English and Welsh. The new Cardiff office is situated on Cathedral Road where Associate Solicitor Louise Irvine, and Solicitor Catrin Reed, will be based. Both Louise and Catrin specialise in family law and private client work. They will be joined by the Head of Company and Commercial, partner Paul James, who has not only recently been listed by the Western Mail in this year's Top 35 business and professional men in W...

The legal team at Redkite has beaten off stiff competition to win the right to represent the new legal super brand called QualitySolicitors in Camarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Redkite will now be rebranded as QualitySolicitors Redkite. “The name changes, but we remain your ‘local’ solicitors for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire,” said QualitySolicitors Redkite managing partner Luke Smith. “Our very strong identity, with staff who care passionately about the community and the people of West Wales, stays very firmly in place. “But the new branding will give us benefits throughout the region by being part of the biggest new brand in the legal market in the UK.” QualitySolicitors is expanding fast to becoming a household name, with strong media and television campaigns. The game changing group now has 220 branches across the UK and has ambitions to be present in every major UK town and city. Mr Smith (pictured above) said the Redkite team was delighted to be chosen as the only law f...