Carter Thomas Solicitors is noted for both its sector strength in education, working across businesses, independent schools, and universities, and its offering in relation to sponsor licences, utilising a sponsor licence platform to consistently ‘provide up-to-date information for clients’. Operating out of Sheffield, the firm also possesses capabilities to advise private clients, assisting a mix of tech, fashion, and creative entrepreneurs. Nichola Carter heads the practice, and is both ‘one of the foremost experts on sponsor licensing law’, and highly experienced in handling immigration mandates for education clients. The team has been bolstered with the promotion of Nick Gore to partner in April 2023, bringing his expertise in working on behalf of fashion designers and musicians. Associate Irfan Ali leads on business immigration services, including the sponsor licence platform.
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- 'Nichola Carter is exceptional! Always provides amazing response time, and clear and lucid advice. Nick Gore gives excellent responses and lucid, practical advice and is well versed in all relevant, rules, regulations and practices.'
- 'First class sector knowledge. Always available and responsive.'
- 'Nichola Carter's advice is always pitch perfect. Constant communication and always available when needed.'
- 'An exceptional team to work with. Very skilled, very polite.'
- 'Nick Gore is extremely skilled and knowledgeable. His assistance was excellent and exceptional.'
- 'As a team, Carter Thomas make great efforts to provide up-to-date information for clients in the form of regular legal updates via email and also webinars where individuals go through topics of relevance. The guidance received is always comprehensive and practical, including an element of hand-holding when it comes to submitting visa applications for both the employer and the employee. They help to make the complex manageable.'
- 'Nichola Carter is rightly regarded as one of the foremost experts on sponsor licensing law and the go-to lawyer when sponsors have problems.'
- 'I work primarily with Nick Gore, now a partner at Carter Thomas. He has always been the epitome of calm reassurance, offering practical advice and guidance on a variety of situations facing our company in the ever-increasingly complex post-Brexit world. I never hesitate to seek advice, and the responses I receive are always helpful.'
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