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Shakespeare Martineau LLP

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Head of department at Shakespeare Martineau LLP is Tijen Ahmet. Ahmet specialises in business immigration matters and is particularly recognised for her work on UK sponsorship under the points-based system. Ahmet divides her time between the London and Birmingham offices and has extensive experience of working with multi-national businesses on a whole host of issues. She regularly advises global clients’ HR and mobility teams on international recruitment.

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  • ‘The team was very welcoming and responsive to our requirements’.

Key clients

  • European real estate client
  • Transport client
  • A higher education university
  • Games manufacturing client
  • Peak NDT Limited

Work highlights

  • Supported an Italy-based real estate client with preparing their UK operations to transfer specialist staff from their overseas operations to the UK, including Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, German, Austria and Czech Republic.
  • Supported a transport client with the transfer of staff to the UK to support with the growth of a multi-million pound project.
  • Providing high level support to a university client with sponsorship of higher education teaching professional, and right to work queries for international students, as well as general compliance of their worker sponsor licence.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Tijen Ahmet