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Siobhan is a Partner and Solicitor in the London office, where she manages a large team of lawyers and immigration professionals. She works with major corporate clients, providing strategic immigration and compliance support across the EMEA region and has built an extensive network of both corporate and private clients across a diverse range of industry sectors, including healthcare, hospitality, finance, media and communications. Siobhan partners with her clients to establish best in class immigration programmes advising on workforce planning, process/change management and remote working and talent management.

Siobhan provides consultations and strategic advice to both the business and employees on crisis management and impact thereof, including more recently with Brexit, COVID-19 and the Ukraine crisis.

Siobhan also provides strategic and tactical advice on client immigration sponsor obligations and Day 1 compliance concerns, company restructuring, mergers and divestitures and audits to help ensure that reporting and record keeping is robust, and illegal working checks are infallible. She has a lengthy history sitting on several working groups with the UKVI, where she represented the interests of clients and is fully involved with the Home Office and various groups regarding the ongoing implications of Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic and currently the Ukraine crisis. Siobhan also advises clients on social security requirements in the context of immigration. She provides technical advice and analysis in relation to compliance of multinational companies and their employees in line with the current social security legislation including the EU Regulations, UK and U.S. domestic legislation. She assists companies in obtaining A1/Certificate of coverage, Certificate of Retention and Exemption of social security liability.

Siobhan is the UK Regional Partner for Diversity, Equality & Inclusion and the Global Partner for Environmental, Social and Governance, championing and leading the European approach. She is also the lead partner for the European Mentoring programme and is a Mental Health Ambassador for the firm.

Siobhan is a regular author and contributor to immigration articles and seminars (e.g., LexisNexis and Best Start Human Resources). She is also a frequent speaker and panelist at various seminars and corporate events in the UK including the Global Mobility Leaders Exchange and various FEM Global Mobility Summits.

Education

  • College of Law, London, Legal Practice Course, 2002
  • College of Law, London, Graduate Diploma in Law, 2001
  • University of Reading, M.A., 1997
  • Leicester University, B.A., 1996

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Awards

Recommended in The Legal 500 Directory United Kingdom, 2011

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Legal Qualifications: Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Member, Law Society of England and Wales

Member, Immigration Law Practitioners' Association

Publications and lectures

Co-author, “Brexit: What’s next?”, BestStart Human Resources, Vol. 12, No. 2, May 2019.

Co-author, “Brexit: Preparing for a Future UK Social Security System.” Fragomen Blog, 1 January 2019.

Co-author, “Thinking Ahead: Brexit –‘No Deal’ and Social Security.” Fragomen Blog, October 2018.

Speaker, “Immigration & social security: The increasing need for day one compliance.” Fragomen EMEA Conference, Brussels, Belgium, September 2018.

Co-author, “Social Security post-Brexit in the UK and EU.” Fragomen Blog, July 2018.

Speaker, “Emotional Intelligence and Culture.” Fragomen EMEA Senior Training, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2018.

Co-author, “Brexit – are you prepared?” BestStart Human Resources, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2017.

Speaker, “Guaranteeing robust compliance in tax, immigration and payroll.” FEM EMEA Summit 2016, UK, 11 November 2016.

Speaker, “Refresher of the Points Based System, potential upcoming rule changes and compliance.” Fragomen breakfast briefing, London, UK, 21 April 2016.

Speaker, “New Immigration Bill.” LexisNexis Webinar, 26 February 2016.

Speaker, “Tier 5 - Government authorised exchange.” LexisNexis Webinar, 13 October 2015.

Author, “Business Visitors – Breaking the law.” British American Business, Vol. 1,  July 2015.

Author, “The right to work - what does this mean for UK employers?” HR Heads Up, Vol. 8, No. 1, February 2015.

Speaker, “Immigration and what you need to do to prevent illegal working.” Fragomen Webinar, online, 26 June 2014.

Co-author, “Indefinite Leave to Remain – Consultation on Changes Announced.” Lexology, 9 June 2011.

Co-author, “Preparing for the Permanent Quota.” Mondaq, 3 February 2011.

Co-author, “Annual Limit on the Cap of Migrant Workers Announced.” V/Lex, January 2010.

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Sustainability and Immigration: Applying a Sustainable Lens to Immigration ConsiderationsRead more

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GM’s Top 100 Diversity Champions - The Big RevealRead more

The Immigration Conversation
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Sustainability and Immigration: Applying a Sustainable Lens to Immigration ConsiderationsRead more

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Sustainability and Immigration: Applying a Sustainable Lens to Immigration ConsiderationsRead more

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