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Nick Rollason is a partner and head of Business Immigration. He advises on all areas of UK immigration and nationality law and has particular expertise in providing strategic advice to businesses on their global immigration needs. Recognised as 'very experienced, knowledgeable and highly diligent' (Legal 500), Nick has over 25 years’ experience in advising corporations and individuals, providing strategic advice on UK and global immigration and citizenship solutions and often advising in the most complex of cases. Nick is a recognised expert in EU immigration law and has litigated key test cases before the European Court of Justice. Nick is listed as a leading figure in Chambers UK and and ranked as a leading individual in Legal 500 UK 2020. He is listed in International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Law, The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom and the Citywealth Leaders List. He is also listed in Who's Who Legal as a Thought Leader in Corporate Immigration, 2019. He is regularly consulted by the UK immigration authorities on proposed changes to UK immigration rules and policy and is a regular press commentator, conference speaker and contributor to immigration publications. He has given evidence to the UK Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee on skilled migration and is a former Rapporteur for the European Commission’s Annual Free movement report. He has been a consultant to the OECD and the ILO on migration matters and he currently acts as an officer for the International Bar Association’s Immigration and Nationality Committee. Nick leads Kingsley Napley’s responses on the UK’s post-Brexit immigration policy design. Nick studied history at Hertford College, Oxford and holds a Masters in Public Policy from the London School of Economics. He started his career at Baileys Shaw & Gillett in 1994 before joining Kingsley Napley in 1997 and becoming a partner in 2003.