Spencer West
About Spencer West
Based in the City of London our firm prides itself on advising with the business owner’s eye. Many of our lawyers are business people in their own right or have worked in-house. We see issues from your perspective and are uniquely placed to help advise you and your business.
Our Partners offer valuable and technical expertise to many different sized businesses based across a number of industries. With a background of leading City, national and international law firms and with our lawyers having an average of over 20,000 hours developing expertise, we believe they are leaders in their chosen field.
Our firm has a strong ethos, providing a collaborative and a multi-disciplinary approach. We work as part of your team – to help you deliver the best results for your business.
We see ourselves as business lawyers to the business community.
Samar Shams
I help companies and individuals move the UK and around the world. My years of experience include responsibility for immigration knowledge for an international firm in the City of London. My expertise in this notoriously complex and changing field is therefore detailed and practical.
I assist companies in setting up in the UK and with sponsoring skilled workers. I have a strong track record of helping companies ensure compliance with sponsorship and right to work requirements.
I engage with policy makers and stakeholders on immigration issues. I regularly speak and write on immigration and future of work topics and I am an expert trainer.
“Samar is a really pro-active and skilled advisor. She helped us in immigration matters better than anyone else. I warmly recommend Samar in all immigration processes. She’s a real key contact and she’s the right person to help a new company who would like to setup operations in London or in the UK.”
“Samar made the application process as smooth and painless as I could have wished for. That my application succeeded in record time is no doubt thanks to her excellent offices. I recommend her in the strongest terms.”
“Samar is so approachable, obviously very knowledgeable and very kind.”
“great trainer” “excellent presenter” “very informative and easy to understand”
Other Partners
Haiqiao Lou and Josh Yam
With over 10 years combined experience within the UK property legal industry, we will be joining and heading a new residential conveyancing team at Spencer West LLP offering clients a full range of residential conveyancing services.
With both our language capabilities (Josh speaks Canonese and Haiqiao speaks Mandarin), UK connections and a fresh approach, we aim to work closely with and build lasting relationships with clients and agents providing a truly unique and tailored service during the course of your UK property projects and beyond. We have particular expertise in assisting high net worth overseas investors deal with new build properties and below are a selection of our career highlights to date:
Josh Yam
Haiqiao Lou
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