Our busy Employment team continues to grow, and we are recruiting for a specialist Business Immigration Associate to join us in either Manchester or Birmingham, with flexible hybrid working.
This opportunity is ideally suited to a Business Immigration lawyer. However, we would also be interested in speaking with candidates who have experience across a mix of business immigration, personal immigration and employment matters, provided they have a genuine interest in specialising in Business Immigration.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a Chambers UK and Legal 500-ranked team and work alongside several "Leading Individuals" recognised by The Legal 500.
Our Employment team enjoys an outstanding reputation in the market and is recognised as a National Leader. We continue to grow across the UK, offering resident employment expertise in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. We advise many well-known organisations across the retail, public and financial services sectors, providing a full range of employment and business immigration support.
Your Role
As a key addition to the team, day to day you can expect to be involved with high quality, varied work including:
- Advising on a varied caseload of business immigration matters including skilled worker and global mobility visa applications, with appropriate levels of Partner supervision
- Supporting sponsorship compliance and right to work audits, with the opportunity to take increasing ownership
- Supporting clients with immigration queries
- Providing immigration support on corporate transactions
- Collaborating with Partners and working closely with the wider national Employment team
- Building relationships with new clients and existing clients of the firm
- Developing your skills, knowledge and business immigration expertise
- Contributing to business development activity to strengthen the team and firm client base
Your Skills &Experience
You will be/have:
- A qualified Solicitor (SRA or Law Society Registered) with 1-3 years PQE in a business immigration, gained from a specialist immigration team or wider employment team
- A forward thinker, with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills, you will be self-motivated with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines
- Commercially aware with some exposure to business development, with the ability to maintain and nurture strong client relationships
- Able to develop a deep understanding of your client’s business needs, and act in the best interest of the firm and the client
- Able to contribute to our collaborative culture, with an ambition to assist in the development of junior team members
Your Team
TLT’s highly regarded Employment team is ranked in Chambers UK Guide and Legal 500 2025 and has enjoyed very strong growth in recent years. Our busy team of more than 60 specialists operates as a single national team across the three UK legal jurisdictions of England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. We have an enviable client base including many listed clients and have a particular focus in the financial services, retail, telecoms, future energy and public sectors. We have a supportive and open culture and supported by our Knowledge Lawyer team are committed to ongoing professional development of both technical and soft skills.
Our services include business reorganisations and redundancies, tactical advice on sensitive and reputational matters, practical support on day-to-day employment issues such as grievances and disciplinary matters, board-level support on corporate governance issues, employment tribunal representation, internal investigations, employee consultation and engagement, employment law training, specialist expertise in TUPE and outsourcing, and business immigration support.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.
Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients, recognised as their 1st tier adviser and being valued for our values. We do this in our unique way by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious for their success.
In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute to the success of TLT.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.
TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com
