Immigration.

Nick heads Kingsley Napley’s immigration team which advises multinational clients on immigration and global mobility issues. The team advises high net worth investors, entrepreneurs and high profile clients on all aspects of UK immigration and citizenship, with a recognised reputation for dealing with the most complex UK and EU law cases. Nick is regularly consulted by policy makers in the UK and EU and is actively involved in lobbying on behalf of businesses. He is known as an expert in EU immigration law and has litigated key test cases before the European Court of Justice.

Nick is a regular conference speaker and has written chapters on immigration in numerous publications, including ‘OUP Global Immigration Handbook’ and ‘LexisNexis Business Immigration Guide’. He was rapporteur to the Euopean Commission on the annual report on free movement from 1996-2005. He has also acted as a consultant to the OECD and International Labour Organisation on highly skilled migration issues.

Qualified 1996; Kingsley Napley 1997; partner 2003; head of the firm’s immigration practice 2009.

Bilingual French.

Nick is an Officer of the Immigration and Nationality Committee of the International Bar Association and a founding member of the European Immigration Lawyers' Network (EILN). He is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA), American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA), American Bar Association (ABA), Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), the Law Society, and Justice.

Hertford College, Oxford (1989 BA); Guildford College of Law