Kerry Garcia > Stevens & Bolton LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Stevens & Bolton LLP Offices
WEY HOUSE
FARNHAM ROAD
GUILDFORD
GU1 4YD
England
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Kerry Garcia
Work Department
Employment and immigration.
Position
Partner and head of the employment, pensions and immigration team. Undertakes both immigration and employment work, mainly for employers. Experienced in all aspects of business immigration law. Advises employers and individuals (including investors) in relation to the points based immigration system. This includes assisting employers with the sponsorship registration process, carrying out audits to check compliance with sponsors’ obligations, assigning certificates of sponsorship and entry clearance and extension applications. Also advises in relation to indefinite leave to remain and naturalisation. Also advises in relation to all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including drafting contracts and staff handbooks, advising on dismissals and termination packages, redundancies and reorganisations, discrimination, family friendly rights and advising in relation to and preparing for tribunal claims. Kerry has a particular expertise in relation to TUPE in connection with acquisitions and outsourcing.
Career
Trained: Dentons (then Denton Wilde Sapte); qualified: 2002; joined Stevens & Bolton: 2006; made partner in present firm: 2013.
Memberships
Employment Lawyers Association, Immigration Lawyers Association.
Education
Exeter College, Oxford University; College of Law, Store Street, London; Law with German Law, 1st class, MA (Oxon) (1999), LPC – Distinction (2000).
Leisure
Swimming, travel, family and reading.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
(Leading individuals)Stevens & Bolton LLP offers ‘clear advice delivered by proactive, engaging lawyers’ covering the full range of employment issues from day-to-day HR advice to Employment Tribunal litigation and a ‘specialism in immigration’. Recently, practice head Kerry Garcia has focused on growing the business immigration offering with clients highlighting her as an ‘excellent black letter lawyer but also a sound communicator’. Lloyd Davey, who is a member of the firm’s inward investment team, provides contentious and non-contentious advice in the technology, media and retail sectors. The ‘bright, engaging and articulate’ Hannah Ford assists both employers and senior executives with all aspects of employment law. Andy Williams joined the team from Charles Russell Speechlys LLP in August 2022 and focuses on negotiating severance packages and advising large corporates on reorganisations, TUPE transfers and changes to contracts.
South East > Employment > Immigration
(Leading individuals)The ‘knowledgeable’ team Stevens & Bolton LLP is thoroughly experienced in business immigration and is geared to assist clients with sponsor licence issues arising from changes in corporate structures, sales, and TUPE transfers. Head of the team Kerry Garcia utilises her expertise in employment law to advise clients on matters where immigration and employment issues overlap, while Jackie Penlington is adept in naturalisation and registration applications. All of the individuals that have been mentioned are located in Guilford.
Lawyer Rankings
- Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex South East > Employment
- Immigration South East > Employment
- Leading individuals South East > Employment > Immigration
- Leading individuals South East > Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation