Glaisyers ETL were featured in The Business Desk.
National law firm Glaisyers ETL has opened its first office in Liverpool, which will serve the owner-managed sector in the city and surrounding areas, with plans to hit £1m turnover within the first two years.
The opening, in The Plaza, in the central business district’s Old Hall Street, adds to its existing footprint in Manchester and London.
Glaisyers has, since 2018, been part of ETL GLOBAL, a German-based international professional services network which employs more than 15,000 tax, audit, accountancy and legal professionals across more than 50 countries.
The Liverpool office will initially focus on corporate and commercial law.
It is being led by new corporate partner Adrian Rogers, who has joined Glaisyers from Knights. He is working alongside David Jones, executive partner at Glaisyers ETL and overall head of ETL Global UK’s legal arm, who also lives in Liverpool.
Mr Rogers’ new role represents a professional homecoming, having spent the first 15 years of his legal career at Brabners, where he qualified as a solicitor and rose to the position of partner in its Liverpool office.
In 2017 he joined the Manchester firm Turner Parkinson, which became part of Knights in 2018, and held the role of corporate partner there.
Mr Rogers said: “Glaisyers is an innovative, entrepreneurial and growing firm, with an ambition that matches my own, so when David Jones offered me the opportunity to be part of the team, help grow the ETL network and come home to Liverpool, it was a very quick and simple decision.”
He said three staff will be based in the office initially, with plans to grow the team: “There’s no limit on what we’re trying to do here. There’s more space within the building if we need to relocate,” he added.
David Jones said the target is for the Liverpool team to achieve turnover of £1m within two years, with a focus on a couple of sectors in particular: “We’re looking at the sports side, particularly football, being based in Liverpool. We have a specialism in football clubs.”