Flying visits? Challenges for UK lawyers working in the EU post Brexit – France

Ilda de Sousa, Partner at Kingsley Napley, discusses the challenges that a post no-deal Brexit will have on UK-based lawyers working in France and French lawyers working in the UK with Karl Waheed, Founder of Karl Waheed Avocats. From a regulatory perspective, Jessica Clay, Senior Associate at Kingsley Napley, provides an overview of what law firms should be doing for their employees when flying them in and out of France.

About Ilda de Sousa

Ilda de Sousa is a Partner in the Immigration team at Kingsley Napley. She is a South African-qualified attorney and a British-qualified solicitor with more than ten years of UK corporate immigration law experience, managing large company clients as well as handling complex matters for individuals, British nationality applications, appeals, judicial reviews and applications under European law, including Brexit-related advice. She also has extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of the Points Based System and in advising investors, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals.

About Jessica Clay

Jessica Clay is a Senior Associate with over a decade of experience specialising in legal services regulation. Jessica advises clients on complying with regulatory obligations, understanding the importance of legal ethics within regulation, regulatory investigations and public law matters, including reviewing regulatory frameworks and decision-making processes. Outside the legal services sector, she acts both for and against the regulators of the accountancy and actuarial professions.

About Karl Waheed

Karl Waheed, founder of Karl Waheed Avocats, is a member of both the New York (1987) and Paris (1993) Bars.

He regularly participates in conferences organised by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Union Internationale des Avocats, lecturing on topics of special interest to international mobility experts. He has had articles published by the International Bar Association and in the Bulletin de Migration du gouvernement français and La Revue du personnel.