Simon Kenny, Partner - Immigration and Global Mobility at Spencer West

Simon is an immigration lawyer working with individuals, companies and universities to handle compliance issues. These include new individual immigration applications, permission to work, illegal working penalties and sponsor licence suspension.

He specialises in Skilled Worker and sponsor licence applications, right-to-work processes and defences to civil penalties.  He also has significant experience in managing global immigration programmes and post-Brexit immigration compliance in respect of business travellers working across the EEA.   

Simon has been listed as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in every edition of the Legal 500 since 2015.  He was individually commended in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards in 2019 for research and analysis conducted following a Freedom of Information Act request regarding Certificate of Sponsorship allocations.  This featured as a headline news story across numerous national newspapers.  Simon was an immigration officer for several years and, after becoming a solicitor, an immigration manager in Big 4 professional services companies. That provided him with a focus on achieving the best outcomes for clients with reference to wider global mobility issues and creativity in finding solutions which work. This experience informs his immigration advice and helps ensure other legal issues related to immigration are identified at an early stage in considering an assignment.