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Financial, Professional & Business Services
Liverpool offers companies all the business-critical ingredients for profitable back and middle-office functions. Whether it’s an outsourcing operation, customer services or shared services centre, you’ll find everything you need here.
More than 41,000 people in Liverpool are employed in our financial and professional sector, equating to16 per cent of all Liverpool jobs, which in turn accounts for 15 per cent of Liverpool’s total GVA.
Liverpool is one of the UK’s leading financial centres. Wealth management is a particular strength and Liverpool is ranked as the top location outside of London, with global firms such as Pershing (subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation) and Investec Wealth and Investment, as well as Rathbones Investment Management who employ more than 700 people in the city.
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Largest wealth management centre outside of London -
6 million workforce within an hour's drive -
Operating costs a fraction of other financial centres -
41,000 people emplyed in the sector
Liverpool’s legal sector is well-established and thriving. Major firms such as Hill Dickinson, DWF, Brabners, Weightmans, DLA, Morecrofts and Riverview Law are represented, with many having their headquarters here.
A major centre for eCommerce, Liverpool offers companies all the business-critical ingredients to create a profitable online retail operation. We’re enthusiastic early-adopters of new business models with many major players based here.
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Highly competitive operating costs -
Global financial centre -
Equipped to excel at customer service
Latest Financial, Professional & Business Services news
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Sutcliffe welcomes experienced executive associate to its team, as company continues to grow throughout the North West
Civil and structural engineering firm, Sutcliffe, has grown its headcount further throughout the first month of 2023, welcoming one of the region’s few female Chartered Structural Engineers Kate Watson, as executive associate to the company.
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Insurance giant returns to Liverpool after a decade away
Leading insurer Direct Line is set to take 17,000 sq ft of office space in Liverpool, as it returns to the city for the first time in ten years.
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Accountancy Firm Cowgills relocates to new Liverpool home
Accountancy firm Cowgills is moving its Liverpool office little more than a year after establishing a base in the city centre.
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London Law firm relocates to new permanent Liverpool base after doubling in size
A London law firm that established a base in Liverpool in 2019 is moving to a ‘permanent’ office in the city after its team more than doubles in size.
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‘Invest in Liverpool’, says Manchester entrepreneur
Source: LBN Daily Manchester finance entrepreneur Paul Cheetham-Karcz invested £1.4m in a new Liverpool base for his business Sedulo in 2021 and is now urging other business people to follow his lead. Sedulo founder Paul Cheetham-Karcz in Liverpool A Manchester businessman who invested £1.4m in a new Liverpool base in 2021 is urging other entrepreneurs to […]
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Corporate law firm opens first Liverpool office
Primas Law partners outside the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. Picture by Hannah Jones
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Liverpool records largest letting in a year
High Street Solicitors has taken almost 15,000 sq ft at No 1 Tithebarn, relocating from Cotton Exchange on Old Hall Street.