Brabners LLP’s robust immigration team offers comprehensive expertise in business immigration, including sponsor licence applications and bespoke compliance support services. Its breadth is evidenced by the variety of sectors in which it operates, spanning healthcare, leisure, medical, technology, and sport. Increasingly, the team is tasked with supporting immigration due diligence linked to corporate transactions. Practice head Ikram Malik is a versatile immigration lawyer who regularly advises businesses on becoming approved sponsor licence holders with the Home Office. Based in the Liverpool office, Brendan McAleese is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, providing crucial support to a range of clients.
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- ‘A consistently knowledgeable team.’
- ‘A friendly, helpful member of the team.’
- ‘It is very much appreciated from our end, the knowledge of the team that we work with directly — Mr Ikram Malik and Brendan McAleese.'
- ‘Mr Ikram Malik and Mr Brendan McAleese both have very professional approaches, with an easy touch to transform the most complex legal terms into lay terms so that the average person is able to understand.'
- ‘Dealing with Brabners has been extremely satisfying.'
- ‘Ikram Malik has been helping our organisation throughout the processes. This was an absolute minefield; however, Ikram has been extremely wonderful and helpful.'
Key clients
- Alfred H Knight International
- Caring Homes Group
- Bryter
- DJB Care Services
- Devizes Road Practice
- The Green Cocoa Lab
- F37 Foundry
- Hill & Smith Holdings
- Heron Tennis Centre
Work highlights
Act as sole provider of immigration advice to Alfred H Knight International Limited.
Act as partners of the Caring Homes Group, supporting their in-house immigration consultant with any queries.
Advised DJB Care Services Ltd and prepared their application for a sponsor licence.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
Ikram Malik
Other key lawyers
Brendan McAleese