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Immigration

Kingsley Napley LLP

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One of the core strengths of Kingsley Napley LLP‘s immigration practice is its ability to leverage the resources of the firm’s broad offering, with human rights, appeals, and overstay matters being run out of the firm’s international protection group, and the business immigration team calling upon related offerings in real estate and private client. Nicolas Rollason heads the ’very large‘ practice, and has ’exceptional knowledge and experience.’ Key contacts for business immigration are Ilda De Sousa, Marcia Longson, and Kim Vowden, who advise the practice’s client base of major financial bodies and multinational companies. They are also noted for their work in relation to human rights, appeals, and overstays, where they work alongside the ‘outstanding’ Katie Newbury and associate Oliver Oldman, who head up much of the firm’s specialist immigration private client work.

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Testimonials

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  • 'They are extremely responsive and very clear in their advice.'
  • 'Katie Newbury is excellent in all immigration areas related to adoption and surrogacy. I have worked with her for years and trust her judgment from the immigration side of thing. She is knowledgeable and pragmatic.'
  • 'Kingsley Napley are at the top of their game for private immigration work. Their cases are meticulously well-prepared and well resourced. They are strategic in their approach, thinking in terms of, for example, publicity and press management as well as management of the case in court.'
  • 'I have worked closely this year with Oliver Oldman and Katie Newbury. Both have been outstanding in their approach, providing a service which was second to none. Their client case skills were outstanding. Oliver is meticulous in his approach to the law and case management. Katie is extremely clever and committed to her clients.'
  • 'The team is very large which means that clients can expect a partner or associate plus two junior members, ensuring prompt and efficient responses to calls, emails and a very high level of client engagement.'
  • 'Nicolas Rollason has exceptional knowledge and experience. Katie Newbury and Oliver Oldman are both highly experienced in personal and business immigration and asylum matters.'
  • 'Extremely knowledgeable and very responsive!'
  • 'Katie Newbury is an excellent partner and provided outstanding case management and team oversight. She ensured the team was always on track and that I was always fully appraised of what to expect. She has an encyclopaedic knowledge of immigration law and was very attuned to the nuances of the Home Office at the time. Her insights were invaluable and saved me both time and money.'

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Nicolas Rollason

Nicolas Rollason

Hall of fameKingsley Napley LLP

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.

Rising stars

Leading individuals

Ilda De Sousa

Ilda De Sousa

Kingsley Napley LLP

Ilda is a partner in the immigration team with more than 19 years of UK corporate immigration law experience, managing large company clients as well as handling complex matters for individuals, British nationality applications, appeals, judicial reviews and applications under European Law including Brexit related advice. Ilda also has extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of the Points Based System, including assisting employers with sponsor licence applications, to include advising on their compliance obligations. Equally, she has extensive experience in advising entrepreneurs and high-net worth individuals. Ilda has spoken on matters of immigration law for several distinguished organisations throughout her career. She has also written several articles on a variety of subjects relating to UK Immigration law.

Marcia Longdon

Marcia Longdon

Kingsley Napley LLP

Marcia joined as a partner in the immigration team in January 2014. She has practised in the area of immigration, nationality and European law since 1998. Marcia is a leading expert on corporate immigration covering mergers and acquisitions. She is incredibly knowledgeable with HR policy, compliance and risk analysis; reporting and audit planning; high touch service planning for executives and VIPs; business traveller compliance; cost and budgeting as well as global project planning. Marcia also provides training to HR professionals and practitioners on all aspects of immigration law.

Next Generation Partners

Katie Newbury

Katie Newbury

Kingsley Napley LLP

Katie is a Partner in Kingsley Napley’s Immigration team and she heads up the Private Client Immigration team within the department. She advises on all aspects of UK personal immigration with an emphasis on more complex matters. She also specialises in applications for high net worth individuals and those in the tech industry, nationality and human rights matters and claims for international protection. She has a particular interest in complicated family applications including those with international adoption and surrogacy elements, working closely with Kingsley Napley’s Family & Divorce team and contributing articles on this subject to the legal press. Katie writes and speaks regularly on UK immigration developments.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nicolas Rollason

Other key lawyers

Ilda de Sousa, Marcia Longdon, Kim Vowden, Katie Newbury, Oliver Oldman

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