Nichola heads Penningtons' highly rated immigration team and is widely regarded as the UK's leading expert on sponsorship and global talent strategy matters. Renowned for seeing the wider picture and presenting creative strategic solutions to issues clients face, Nichola and her team also work hard to guide those who operate in the corporate and education sectors through the myriad of risks inherent in the points based system. Frequently influencing senior Government members and officials behind the scenes, Nichola works with clients on strategies to attract global talent and prepares them for policy changes which will impact their business models. Nichola and her team also represent clients who are subject to unlawful decisions and they acted for English UK in its ground breaking judicial review challenge in 2010. Nichola also has significant experience advising high net worth individuals, globally recognised performers and those who would like to remain in the UK due to family and/or compassionate reasons.
Nichola teaches immigration law to other practitioners and has appeared in numerous press interviews, including BBC and Sky News. She is recommended by both Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession, where she is noted as having 'great commercial sense and commitment to the subject matter' and The Legal 500, where she is described as being 'easy to work with'. Nichola has spoken about immigration policy at numerous events organised by the International Bar Association, the British Chambers of Commerce, the Association of MBAs, the Law Society and the Independent Schools Council.