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Collyer Bristow LLP
St Martin’s Court
10 Paternoster Row
London
EC4M 7EJ
England
St Martin’s Court
10 Paternoster Row
London
EC4M 7EJ
England
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Charles Avens

+44 20 7468 7234 [email protected]
Work Department
Immigration
Position
Charles is Head of Immigration, specialising in Personal and Corporate immigration to the U.K.
Charles provides advice and support to high-net-worth individuals and their families (and family offices) wishing to relocate; to international entrepreneurs and investors; and to both UK companies wishing to employ foreign nationals (recruiting from abroad or transferring employees to the UK from an overseas office) and to foreign businesses wishing to start a business in the UK.
Career
Work highlights
- Assisting a Spanish telecommunications company to bring key engineers to the UK to start on high value infrastructure projects using the new Senior /Specialist worker visa under the new Global Business Mobility Route
- Assisting a large Indian Cosmetics Company apply for a UK sponsor licence in order to bring senior management to the UK to operate the new UK subsidiary
- Providing immigration advice and assistance to a large US software Company based in California, on bringing staff into the UK using both skilled worker visas and senior/specialist worker visas using the GBM route
- Successfully applying for an Innovator visa for a Mexican business professional, so he could set up a new and innovative business model in the UK
- Applying for a UK Ancestry visa for a South African national, who received a decision on the application within 7 days of submission of the application
- Assisting a US TV personality apply for a UK Innovator visa
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Private client > Family
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory