The boutique immigration offering at Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law is ‘excellent at providing concise information about complex areas of law’. The group advises on immigration issues relating to Sponsor Licences, takeovers, redundancies and down-sizing, across a broad range of sectors such as tech, engineering, media, sports and finance. The group is led by Vanessa Ganguin, who is an expert in all aspects of business and personal immigration, and also includes Philip Trott who advises businesses, HNW individuals and celebrities across a broad range of matters, and has particular expertise with complex immigration matters such as discretionary immigration applications outside the rules and appeals against adverse decisions. Ben Maitland's ‘exceptional knowledge in immigration’ includes Skilled Worker applications and Global Business Mobility routes.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team has an excellent standing amongst colleagues! They are knowledgeable and thoughtful lawyers - individually and collectively. ’

  • ‘Vanessa and Anushka are professional, pragmatic and personable. They give expert advice in an easy to understand manner and are always willing to help. It's clear from their advice and writing on the topic that they are absolute experts in their field. We recommend them wholeheartedly to all our clients’

  • ‘The team at VGIL are responsive and pragmatic in their advice, and are excellent at providing concise information about complex areas of law, that can be easily digested by clients. They have repeatedly shown themselves to be extremely flexible at short notice to provide urgent advice.’

  • ‘I have worked with Anushka Sinha and Ross Kennedy; both excellent, and very capable and thinking around situations to generate commercial options that clients may not have otherwise considered. Both very comfortable with client-facing work, and easy to engage.’

  • ‘Ben Maitland has been my contact at the practice for the last two years. He has exceptional knowledge in immigration and this has been demonstrated in the immigration advice and guidance he has provided. Ben is extremely helpful and always prompt in responding to my requests.’

  • ‘UK immigration law is made up of complex rules that change frequently and the team at Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law are all highly knowledgeable and able to explain the rules and changes in a clear and understandable way. Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law offers us a boutique service which is more involved than most law firms and bring an immense amount of knowledge and experience to spot potential problems before they arise. ’

  • ‘Ross Kennedy is always a very safe pair of hands to navigate the complex and constantly changing world of UK business immigration legislation. He is able to guide us through the complexities of the UK immigration rules in a friendly and confident way that, crucially, makes this hugely technical area easy to for us to understand. Ross is always very sharp and strategic.'

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Vanessa Ganguin

Other key lawyers

Philip Trott, Ben Maitland, Ross Kennedy