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Lewis Silkin
Arbor
255 Blackfriars Rd
LONDON
SE1 9AX
England

Work Department

Employment, Immigration and Reward

Position

Partner

Career

Naomi has many years’ experience helping businesses and private clients to navigate UK immigration law. Naomi joined Lewis Silkin in February 2017 as a Senior Associate and following promotion became a Managing Associate in April 2018. Before joining the firm she gained ten years’ experience in UK immigration law at top ranked immigration practices in London.

Memberships

Naomi is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association and regularly contributes to Home Office and Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) projects.

Education

Naomi holds a double degree awarded by the University of Technology Sydney in 2005 and 2006 for a Bachelor of Arts, Communications in Social Inquiry and a Bachelor of Laws.

Naomi qualified as a solicitor in New South Wales, Australia in 2008 after completing the Practical Law Training and then in England and Wales in January 2010 after completing the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test.

Naomi has also completed a short course in Global Migration from Oxford University since then and has specialised in UK immigration law since 2007.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Employment > Immigration

(Next Generation Partners)

Naomi Hanrahan-Soar  – Lewis Silkin

Drawing on its strengths as an international full-service firm, Lewis Silkin advises multinational corporates as well as start-ups on all their business immigration needs in sectors such as financial services, tech, oil and gas and sports. The group has extensive experience with applications like Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility and Global Talent, and has additional expertise in the full range of Sponsor Licenses issues, including obtainment, overturning revocations, civil penalties under illegal working legislation, compliance and audits. Leading the team, Andrew Osborne advises across the full range of business and personal immigration, including strategic advice relating to recruitment, right to work and applications outside immigration rules. Supinder Singh Sian regularly advises on UK in-bound immigration and global mobility programs with niche capabilities in International Agreement Contractual Service Supplier sponsorship, whilst Stephen O’Flaherty has particular expertise advising on a broad range of immigration issues in the tech and sports sector. The ‘excellentNaomi Hanrahan-Soar who is an expert in Sponsor License compliance issues and immigration work relating to M&A, and the ‘steadfast and impressiveSam Koppel, who has broad experience advising on UK and global immigration projects, are also key contacts.