Investors and entrepreneurs

Our immigration team has earned its well-deserved reputation as a leader in the field through a combination of deep technical understanding, robust advice, and an ability to get results for clients. We have considerable expertise in complex personal immigration matters for high net worth individuals – particularly investors and entrepreneurs who require support tailored to their specific circumstances.

High net worth immigration guidance

At Penningtons Manches Cooper, our immigration team provides bespoke immigration solutions for high net worth individuals who wish to either set up a business or invest funds in the UK. We also work closely with leading experts in other practice areas within our firm to deliver integrated and compatible solutions for a much broader range of legal issues.

Our private client, family law and residential property teams can help individuals and their family members with pre-immigration tax planning, asset structuring, pre- and post-nuptial agreements and real estate purchases. We also collaborate with our corporate and employment teams to ensure that the visa requirements for setting up a business and recruiting staff are met.

Clients value the firm’s pragmatism. They are realistic and have an integrity which has won them their reputation.

Chambers UK

Clients can also benefit from the introductions we can effect for them with our trusted network of wealth managers, banks and life management specialists, whose advice and guidance can ease any difficulties arising from relocating business and family interests to the UK.

We value our unique position in the field of immigration and use this responsibly by raising issues with government representatives and by presenting solutions that seek to ameliorate our clients’ position, while maintaining the government’s objectives for immigration control.

Our immigration team is recommended in the latest edition of Chambers UK and The Legal 500, the leading directories for the legal profession.

How we help our clients

Investor visas, including extensions and accelerated settlement

Entrepreneur visas, including extensions and accelerated settlement

Entrepreneur teams

Family members of HNW individuals

British citizenship applications

Strategic immigration advice for those planning to move to the UK

Alternative immigration solutions

Liaising with senior contacts at the Home Office for HNW individuals

Appeals reconsiderations and judicial review applications

Recent work highlights

Large family relocation

Carefully planning the move to the UK of a family with young children and elderly dependants, easing their relocation by giving them access to the right advice on property acquisition, UK schooling and home management.

Reversal of Home Office decision

Being instructed on a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) refusal and overturning that refusal following representations to the Home Office that addressed its concern on genuineness grounds.

Investor with third party funds

Working with our corporate department on a client’s Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) application that relied on third party funds, and liaising with the Home Office policy team on the structure the client wanted for the investment.

UHNW businessman and philanthropist

Advising a successful online business entrepreneur on the establishment of his family investment company (FIC) to act as a central investment and governance vehicle for his children, wider family and future generations.

Complex international restructuring

Restructuring Singapore-based sub-groups of trading companies with a particular focus on UK tax efficiency for UK-based owners.

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