Tanya (Tetyana) Laidlaw is a highly experienced Immigration Partner at W Legal, bringing over 20 years of expertise in UK immigration law. She qualified at a West End law firm, where she successfully established and developed the Immigration Department before joining W Legal.
With a deep understanding of both personal and business immigration, Tanya provides strategic advice to international clients, guiding them through complex immigration matters, including visa applications, sponsorships, and settlement routes. She is particularly known for her ability to find innovative solutions for challenging cases and navigating the intricacies of UK immigration law.
Tanya is a recognized speaker at legal forums, conferences, and business seminars, where she shares her expertise on UK immigration policies, compliance, and visa strategies. She provides both online and in-person presentations on key immigration topics, keeping businesses and individuals informed about the latest regulatory changes and best practices.
Her insightful talks and training sessions have been highly regarded by corporate clients, HR professionals, legal practitioners, and entrepreneurs seeking to understand the UK’s evolving immigration landscape.
Tanya holds an exceptional 5.0 rating on ReviewSolicitors, with clients praising her professionalism, swift communication, and strategic problem-solving skills. She is frequently recommended for her ability to simplify legal complexities and deliver successful results.
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Lisa has particular expertise in bribery and corruption, money laundering, fraud, tax evasion and market abuse matters and has acted for clients in some of the most high-profile cases brought by the SFO, FCA, CPS and other UK and international prosecution authorities. Many of those cases involved complex cross boarder issues such as requests made pursuant to mutual legal assistance treaties, double jeopardy, human rights, and extradition. Lisa has also successfully challenged decisions made by different prosecuting authorities in judicial review proceedings and under the victims right to review scheme.
In addition, Lisa has considerable experience acting for clients in civil fraud and director misfeasance cases, civil tax matters brought by HMRC, as well as personal and company insolvency matters.
Lisa is well known and respected in the industry as someone who can provide pragmatic and results oriented advice.
W Legal Limited is not a partnership and the term “partner” applied to a person does not denote that such person is in partnership with W Legal Limited or with any other partner, consultant, director, officer, employee or agent of W Legal Limited. The term is used to describe a person’s seniority and experience.
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