Disaster recovery expert LWG has relocated its British workforce from the nearby town of Reading, on the outskirts of London, to a more central location to be closer to its main clients and potential rivals.
“Central London is home to some of the largest and oldest insurers and is considered by many to be the insurance capital of the world,” explained Mamoon Alyah, LWG’s executive director of UK operations.
“We strongly believe that being closer to our clients allows us to deliver our high-quality service with increased responsiveness at a time when insurers are pressing for conclusive findings in shorter time frames.”
The move to central London office space was also partly driven by the company’s need for more square footage to house its growing workforce, itself swelled by increasing demand for its consultancy services.
LWG’s British operations will now be headquartered in its central London office, one of 17 operating bases the company has around the world.
Earlier this month, a report from Cushman & Wakefield’s commercial property analysts put London ahead of Paris, Frankfurt and every other location in the world as the best city on earth to do business.
Editor’s notes: In 2017, LWG Consulting rebranded as Envista Forensics. The Illinois-headquartered firm employed 600 professionals worldwide and operated out of 30 office locations.
The firm’s London office was based on Gracechurch Street in the City. It also had another UK office in Woking at Goldvale House on Church Street.
Woking flexible office space providers also offer a range of flexible office space and workspace solutions to other companies, such as serviced offices, fitted and managed offices and coworking memberships.
These have become increasingly popular with hybrid-working businesses seeking a satellite ‘spoke’ office to their London ‘hub’ office, as the Surrey town is just 10 minutes from the M25 motorway.
In January 2024, Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) announced that, following its letting to information technology company Clinisys in 2023, it had let a further 25,000 square feet of office space across two floors at its Goldsworth Place office development in Woking.
US toothpaste and consumer products group Colgate would move into the scheme in mid-2024, once internal works were completed, and would make the building its UK headquarters.
Office rents at the scheme were quoted at £38.50 per square foot per annum at the time of the deal.
As of June 2026, Envista Forensics had no physical office presence in London or any other location in the UK or Europe. It had multiple offices in the Americas, Asia and Oceania.
The firm advised that it had transitioned to a hybrid, mobile-based workforce, resulting in a reduction in its physical footprint in the UK. It also advised that emergency loss requests would continue to be fully supported by its UK team.