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The UK economic development
directory below (scroll down)
links to the websites of many economic development organizations (EDO's)
in the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
These are also known as investment promotion
agencies (IPA), local or regional development agencies (RDA's), or as
public-private partnerships such as industrial or community development
corporations and urban regeneration or renewal agencies.
The directory may also include major chambers
of commerce or industry organizations and professional associations which
provide useful information for reference by potential investors in their
region or industry sector. It also includes some links to
universities, such as for science and research parks or technology business
incubators. It also selectively provides suggested
contacts and
related content such as Area Profiles and Area Surveys as executive
summaries to highlight specific potential business locations.
Invest in Europe directory
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specialists whose capabilities may be helpful when planning and implementing
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Organizations which promote business investment in the
greater London region, also known as inward investment projects or foreign
direct investment (FDI) projects, are listed below. |
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United Kingdom |
Scope |
Contacts |
Website and other resources
Project
announcements |
Survey |
Profile |
| UK Trade &
Investment (formerly known as the Invest in Britain Bureau and as Invest UK) |
National |
|
www.uktradeinvestusa.com (for USA)
www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk
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No |
No |
| BT eLocations |
Telecom |
|
www.bt.com/btelocations |
No |
No |
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England |
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GDI :
Phil |
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| English Partnerships |
Developer |
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www.englishsites.com |
No |
No |
| Think London |
Metro |
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www.thinklondon.com |
No |
No |
| London
Development Agency |
Metro |
|
www.lda.gov.uk |
No |
No |
| London First
Centre |
Metro |
|
www.london-first.co.uk
www.lfc.co.uk |
No |
No |
|
London BioScience
Innovation Centre |
BioScience |
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www.londonbioscience.com |
No |
No |
| Locate in Kent |
Region |
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www.locateinkent.com
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No |
No |
| Sheffield
First |
Metro |
|
www.makeitinsheffield.com |
No |
No |
| Invest East of
England |
Region |
|
www.eeia.com
www.investeastofengland.com
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No |
No |
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East of England
Development Agency |
Region |
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www.eastofengland.uk.com |
No |
No |
| South East England
Development Agency, Guilford, Surrey |
Region |
TEL +44(0)1483
484200 |
www.seeda.co.uk |
No |
No |
| Surrey Research Park |
Research park |
|
www.surrey.ac.uk/research_park |
No |
No |
| South West RDA -
Southwest of England Regional Development Agency - SWRDA - Exeter |
Region |
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www.sw-england.com
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No |
No |
| The British
Midlands |
Region |
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www.thebritishmidlands.com |
No |
No |
| East Midlands
Development Agency - EMDA England's East Midlands |
Region |
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www.englandseastmidlands.com
www.emda.org.uk |
No |
No |
| Advantage West Midlands |
Region |
TEL +44(121)380
3500 |
www.thewestmidlandsregion.co.uk
www.advantagewm.co.uk |
No |
No |
| Aston Science Park,
Birmingham England |
Science park |
|
www.astonsciencepark.co.uk |
No |
No |
| Nottinghamshire County
Council Economic Development |
County |
|
www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk |
No |
No |
| BioCity Nottingham |
Biomedical science park |
|
www.biocity.co.uk |
No |
No |
| University of Warwick
Science Park Ltd., Coventry |
science park |
|
www.warwicksciencepark.co.uk |
No |
No |
| One NorthEast, Newcastle
upon Tyne |
Region |
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www.onenortheast.co.uk |
No |
No |
| The North of
England Inward Investment Agency |
Region |
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www.thenoe.com |
No |
No |
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County Durham Development Company (CDDC) |
County
 |
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www.wherebusinessgrows.com |
No
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No |
| Northumberland
County Council, northern England, north of Newcastle upon Tyne |
County |
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www.northumberland.gov.uk/invest/ |
No |
No |
| Tyne & Wear Development Co.,
northern England - Newcastle upon Tyne area |
County |
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www.tyne-wear.co.uk
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No |
No |
| Yorkshire Forward - and
BioScience Yorkshire initiative |
Region |
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www.yorkshire-forward.com
www.bioscience-yorkshire.com |
No |
No |
| Barnsley
Development Agency |
Metro |
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www.barnsleydevelopmentagency.co.uk |
No |
No |
| Rotherham Industrial Development
Office |
Metro |
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www.rido.org.uk |
No |
No |
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Bionow - northwest England |
Biotech sector |
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www.bionow.co.uk |
No |
No |
| The Mersey Partnership -
Invest Merseyside |
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http://investmerseyside.com/
www.investliverpoolcityregion.com |
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| Manchester Science Park
Limited |
Science park |
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www.mspl.co.uk |
No |
No |
| Warrington Borough
Council, northwest England |
Borough |
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www.warringtonuk.com |
No |
No |
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Wales |
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| Welsh Development Agency |
Region |
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www.invest-in-wales.com |
No |
No |
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WalesTrade International |
Trade promotion |
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www.walestrade.com |
No |
No |
| Cardiff & Newport Call
Centre Initiative |
contact centers |
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www.callcentrewales.co.uk
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No |
No |
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Scotland |
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| Scottish Development International |
Region
 |
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www.scottishdevelopmentinternational.com
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No |
No |
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BioDundee |
Biotech |
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www.biodundee.co.uk |
No |
No |
| Locate Dundee |
City |
+44(0)1382 434252
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www.locate-dundee.co.uk |
No |
No |
| Hillington Park Innovation
Centre, Glasgow |
Science park incubator |
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www.innovationcentre.org |
No |
No |
| Aberdeen Science and
Technology Parks |
Science park |
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www.astp.co.uk |
No |
No |
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Northern Ireland |
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| Invest Northern Ireland |
Region |
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www.investni.com |
No |
No |
| University of Ulster
Science Research Parks Ltd. (UUSRP Ltd.), Londonderry |
Science park |
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www.ulster.ac.uk/uusrp |
No |
No |
Explanation of column
headings above
- Organizations are generally sorted in
postal code order so that locations which are geographically close to each
other will usually (not always) be grouped together. This is a
selective directory, even though this directory is more comprehensive
than the very selective one we will maintain at the regional level to
highlight the organizations which support our work or are found to be of
frequent interest for the convenience of the executives and business
advisors we serve.
- Scope : is the area served by the
organization, and postal code. We may include thumbnail maps which
expand to show information about participating areas, or link directly to
good maps or GIS research tools on the organization's website.
- Contacts : relationship leader at GDI
Solutions for maintaining information about contacts in this area.
If there is a working relationship through our various GUIDE services, we
also list the key organization contact, phone, and optional e-mail.
- Website and other resources : Aside from
the main website link, we may include other direct links to highlight
special features of expected interest to executives, especially if they
might not be readily noticed by just visiting the website. A good
example of this is when relevant content is actually maintained somewhere
else, such as a regional website rather than the local one, so that one
would otherwise need to know to follow the available links between the
websites.
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The default
for all other columns is "No" unless the organization supports our work so
that we work together to organize and share timely additional research and
content.
- Survey : areas which have responded to our
GUIDE Network Survey, with a link to their response for convenience if
published (optional) and highlighted at the top. This is often
useful as an executive summary at the "long list" stage of location
selection.
- Profile : participates in our GUIDE Area
Profile service (also highlighted at the top of the page). This
involves a closer working relationship to maintain more timely and
detailed knowledge of the area throughout the year, and also involves a
more detailed executive summary on the website, with many relevant links.
If there are significant incentives in the area, we may also link to a
GUIDE Incentives Profile.
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All area representatives are encouraged to reply to the free
GUIDE Network
Survey, which consists of very basic questions to help maintain
timely knowledge about many areas for referral purposes. Area
representatives : see
how to
participate. Current service pricing
is listed on the
Order Form (Adobe Acrobat .PDF file). Refer also to any
special offers. Please
help us to help you by supporting our work.
Executives who use this service are encouraged to
respond to our free
Executive Survey, which helps us to continuously improve.
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The presence, absence,
or position of any organization on these lists,
or their position on the lists, does not imply any endorsement or opinion about their services,
nor by them about our own. The selections are simply intended to be helpful to executives who may be
unaware of such contacts, or how to reach their websites quickly.
Please contact us directly for relevant introductions or any additional
contacts, market knowledge, and research which we don't publish. |
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The
directory
above is a "long list" extension of our contacts directory for the
larger European
region,
following the same structure as our
global contact directories.
These area representatives
would typically include
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a department of commerce
or industry or local government office
- greater
metro city or county area chamber of commerce
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county economic
development agency
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industrial development
corporation or council - IDC
-
public-private
partnership for business
development, community development
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investment promotion
agency - IPA
-
industry cluster development initiatives, business
incubators, technology parks
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regional or global professional B2B networking
organizations, business partnering, joint venture development, or strategic
business alliance services
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trade and investment
promotion offices
We welcome
reciprocal links
from relevant organizations. |
Despite the
wide variety of names for such economic development organizations, and
variances in the scope of their services, the ones we list are generally
actively involved in efforts to attract, expand, and retain business
investment projects in their areas (offices, factories, etc.), including the
attraction of foreign direct investment projects (FDI). This typically
includes support services, financial incentives, and information for
corporate site selection decisions as well as local business retention and
expansion services.
Suggestions are welcome, and please report any broken links. |
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Contact information for relationship leaders at Global
Direct Investment Solutions (GDI Solutions) |
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Please
contact us for project assistance. As this business grows,
relationship leaders in Europe will develop and
maintain working relationships among more area representatives, professional service
providers, and corporate executives who are responsible for major projects.
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| Name |
e-mail |
Phone |
Fax and Websites |
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Bruce Donnelly,
President
Global Direct
Investment Solutions
PO Box 439, Fox River Grove IL 60021 |
bruce@gdi-solutions.com |
847-304-4655
(Chicago suburbs) |
FAX 847-304-5375
www.gdi-solutions.com
www.ontheshortlist.com |
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Phil
Eadon
Partners4Technology International
Delta Promotions &
Marketing Ltd.
Washington,
England, United Kingdom (UK)
located in Northern England near the cities of Durham,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sunderland |
phil.eadon@partners4technology.com |
EU mobile :
from UK dial as
(078) 3473 0929
from US dial as
(011)+44-783-473-0929
Office :
from UK dial as (0)191-415-7340
from US dial as
(011)+44-191-415-7340
country code is 44, Durham is 191 |
www.partners4technology.com
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This directory selectively highlights
participating economic development organizations and professional service
provider contacts in the Europe region by
including more relevant links to useful content than just the local website.
The directory may also identify other contacts of potential interest to
executives and business advisors on a selective basis, as in the case of the
following initial examples. We work together with EDO's to share timely
knowledge about the benefits of their areas as we serve potential investors and
advisors who are responsible for business location or site selection decisions
for foreign direct investment (FDI)
or capital investment projects such as new factories or offices, expansion projects, business
relocation, and consolidation of operations as in post-merger integration
situations.
Related services support
global B2B
technology partnering in cooperation with local economic development
organizations or IPA's.
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Other sources of information
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The following additional sources of information are included here for ease of
reference. Refer also to the list of US
Government and related information sources for
these or other countries, or the Research
section. Have you found other good sources, or local
contacts for economic development and investment support? Please let us
know so that we may share them with others. |
| Source |
Website |
| Europa - The
European Union Online and EuroStat - for EU
statistics, Panorama - Portraits of the Regions, etc. |
http://europa.eu.int/index.htm
http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat
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| The Financial
Times - and FDI Magazine, by FT Business |
www.ft.com
www.fdimagazine.com
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Corporate Location
magazine (also known for a while as SDI - Strategic Direct Investor ) is published by Euromoney
Institutional Investor Plc. |
www.corporatelocation.com |
| Invest in the
UK - private publication with reports supported by advertising about
economic development in the various UK regions |
www.invest-in-the-uk.com |
| The Economist |
www.economist.com |
| The Economist Intelligence Unit, publishes
market research for subscribers |
www.eiu.com |
| International
Herald Tribune |
www.iht.com
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| BBC World Service, and
Global Business Programme |
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business |
| European
Business magazine |
http://europeanbusiness.eu.com/ |
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| British
foreign policy news and travel advisories |
http://www.fco.gov.uk |
| Information
about the UK |
www.i-uk.com
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| Focus -
information for member expatriates living in London or the rest of the UK |
www.focus-info.org |
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| Confederation
of British Industry |
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BIA - UK BioIndustry
Association |
www.bioindustry.org |
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| U.S.
Commercial Service: Showcase Europe - export promotion |
http://www.buyusa.gov/europe |
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| BURA - British
Urban Regeneration Association - a forum to exchange private and public
sector ideas and best practices about regeneration of urban areas |
www.bura.org.uk |
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Corporate Real Estate Firms
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Search global commercial real estate websites |
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This section will be used
for convenience to highlight major corporate real estate firms with
operations in the region.
See also the
global CRE
list, which can be used to find local offices of firms which may not be
highlighted below.
We also provide selective
major property listings for the region, with links to the real
estate firms and agents involved. |
| CB Richard
Ellis |
www.cbre.com |
| Colliers
International - UK (Belfast NI, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, London,
Manchester) |
www.colliers.com - global, main website for all areas, as
locations may change
www.colliercre.co.uk |
| Cushman &
Wakefield - Healey & Baker |
www.cushwake.com |
| FPD Savills
(UK) |
www.savills.co.uk |
| Grubb &
Ellis Knight Frank |
www.grubb-ellis.com
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| King Sturge |
http://www.kingsturge.com
www.kingsturge.co.uk |
| Strutt &
Parker |
http://www.struttandparker.com |
| Chesterton
International |
www.chesterton.co.uk
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| GVA Grimley -
GVA Worldwide |
www.gvagrimley.co.uk
www.gvaworldwide.com
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| NAI Fuller
Peiser |
www.naiglobal.com
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| ATIS REAL
Weatheralls Ltd. - Atisreal is a BNP Paribas Company - BNP Paribas Real
Estate; CRESA Partners in the USA has ties to Atisreal |
http://www.atisrealweatheralls.com
http://www.atisreal.com/ |
| Regus -
furnished, staffed, and equipped offices on short-term leases, plus meeting
rooms, videoconferencing, and temporary (daily) space which may be useful to
project teams needing a place to operate in an area during planning or
startup work |
www.regus.com
for list of offices in over 300 locations worldwide, including the United Kingdom |
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Project Management, Architecture, Engineering,
Interior Design, and Construction |
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This section will be used to
highlight major firms within the region, as well as global firms with
significant experience in the region.
See also the selective global
lists of location
consultants and
project management
services. |
| DEGW - large
office environment planning, facility requirements definition |
www.degw.com
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| Gazeley Properties Limited |
www.gazeley.com
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| Panattoni
Development |
www.panattoni.com
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| ProLogis (REIT, global distribution facilities) |
www.prologis.com
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| Atkins Group - Hanscomb Faithful & Gould -
independent
project management, owner representation, quantity surveyors |
www.hanscombfgould.com |
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Tax and Legal Consultants - and
reference sources for international law, tax, finance, and intellectual
property issues |
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This section will be used to
highlight major firms within the region, as well as global firms with
significant experience in the region.
See also the selective global
lists of tax
advisors and
international legal advisors, as most such firms have European
operations or affiliates. |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers |
www.pwcglobal.com
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| Ernst & Young - their
European Investment Monitor, in cooperation with Oxford Intelligence, tracks
corporate investment trends in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in
Europe |
www.ey.com |
| Deloitte & Touche - and
country guides |
www.deloitte.com
www.deloittewebguides.com
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| Baker & McKenzie |
www.bakerinfo.com
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| Covington & Burling;
over 500 lawyers, offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, London,
Brussels; specialists in international life sciences, intellectual property |
www.cov.com |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
(UK) - offices in 18 countries, over 2400 lawyers |
www.freshfields.com
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| Morrison & Foerster LLP
- patent and intellectual property, venture financing, partnering, M&A, public offerings,
technology transfers, tax strategies, litigation; offices in Beijing,
Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and various US
cities |
www.mofo.com |
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| Hieros Gamos - legal
research center, global listing of law firms |
www.hg.org |
| Lex Mundi - global
association of law firms |
www.lexmundi.org
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| Juris International -
reference sources for international law, and also provides lists of business
lawyer associations worldwide |
www.jurisint.org
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| International Tax Review -
a Euromoney Plc publication |
http://www.legalmediagroup.com/internationaltaxreview/ |
| International Financial
Law Review - Legal Media Group - Euromoney Institutional Investor plc -
publishes country directories and descriptions of law firms |
www.legalmediagroup.com/iflr/ |
| Managing Intellectual
Property - Legal Media Group - Euromoney |
www.legalmediagroup.com/mip/ |
| European Market Entry
Consulting |
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| Atlantic
Bridge Limited - specialist in CE marking issues |
http://www.atlanticbridge.co.uk |
| Location
Strategy Management |
http://www.lsm.net |
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PricewaterhouseCoopers UK "Pathfinder" service - in the tax practice, to
help clients through typical startup issues for establishing new offices in the country |
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Partners4Technology - multi-industry global B2B partnering service,
"matchmaking" online supported by local economic development partners and
periodic InterTech
networking events, with a particular focus on technology company
introductions among SME's |
www.partners4technology.com |
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Ports, Rail, Airports and Logistics services |
| BAA - British Airports
Authority |
www.baa.co.uk
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| Exel Logistics - UK based
global supply chain management firm |
www.exel.com |
| British Airways World Cargo |
www.baworldcargo.com |
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Relocation Services |
| TEAM
Relocations |
http://www.teamrelocations.com |
| UK Relocation
Services - sponsor of TIRA Network The International Relocation Associates |
http://www.ukrelocation.com |
|
Executive Search - refer to our
global HR directory including the section
on relocation and compliance services for expatriate assignments |
| AEA
International Search - network includes Cook Associates in the USA, Michael
Stern Associates in Canada, Alexander Hughes in Europe |
www.aeainternationalsearch.com
www.alexander-hughes.com
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| Bench
International - specialized in pharmaceutical and biotechnology executive
search, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Basingstoke UK for
European searches |
www.benchinternational.com |
| R.J. Watkins &
Company - Executive Recruiting Consultants, based in San Diego with offices
in San Francisco, Campbell CA and London; also associated with angel
investor / venture capital groups |
http://www.rjwatkins.com
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Universities |
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Banks
This list will identify some major banks in the
UK for convenience, and particularly those which are actively involved in
providing services to foreign companies as they invest in setting up new
operations in the UK, since there are many banks in the UK. See also the selective
global list in the corporate development and finance section. |
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