Sarah Gogan
High Net Worth Guide 2024
Band 1 : Immigration: High Net Worth Individuals
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About
Provided by Sarah Gogan
Practice Areas
Sarah is a private client lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in a broad spectrum of UK immigration work. She is regarded in the industry as one of the leading lawyers in all aspects of personal immigration law, nationality, asylum and human rights law.
She acts for a wide range of clients from every part of the globe – household names and other prominent individuals, international families, UHNW and HNW individuals, professionals and business people, and stars recognised in the global entertainment industry.
Her work covers immigration applications under the Investor and Business categories of the UK immigration rules. This includes applications for partners and children including adoption and surrogacy. She also advises on Indefinite Leave to Remain/Settlement and British Nationality applications. She has vast experience in helping clients to find innovative legal solutions in the most complex immigration situations.
Her work focuses on personal immigration matters which are often problematic and require bespoke solutions. Sarah’s practice is notable for its success rate in respect of complex applications and/or problematic evidential issues. She is strategic and innovative in her approach and is non-litigious, proactive and solution driven. Her varied and extensive experience and technical knowledge of dealing with exceptional cases, and success in obtaining discretion for non-compliant applications, have put Sarah in the forefront of the market.
In addition, Sarah has a wide breadth of experience in contentious litigation cases for high profile individuals who are facing challenging circumstances and often require international protection. She has significant experience in advising high net worth individuals with regards to complex, politically sensitive protection cases involving political persecution as well as human rights-based applications.
Sarah’s clients often regard her as their trusted advisor and call upon her for advice on all of their personal and business interests.
Professional Memberships
Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA)
The Law Society
Chambers Review
High Net Worth
Sarah Gogan of Harbottle & Lewis is a trusted adviser to global families, wealthy individuals and entrepreneurs on immigration matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sarah Gogan is an exceptional immigration lawyer - very erudite, articulate and pragmatic. She is very client-focused and committed, and always goes the extra mile to resolve things in a timely way."
"Sarah Gogan is superb with client handling and has really good instincts."
"Sarah is really astute, commercial, hard-working and passionate. Clients respond really positively towards her. She is a leader in our field and part of the new guard of leading lawyers."
"Sarah is a very knowledgeable and versatile lawyer. She is able to work with a client at pace, and her knowledge of political asylum is second to none."
"Sarah Gogan is an exceptional immigration lawyer - very erudite, articulate and pragmatic. She is very client-focused and committed, and always goes the extra mile to resolve things in a timely way."
"Sarah Gogan is superb with client handling and has really good instincts."
"Sarah is really astute, commercial, hard-working and passionate. Clients respond really positively towards her. She is a leader in our field and part of the new guard of leading lawyers."
"Sarah is a very knowledgeable and versatile lawyer. She is able to work with a client at pace, and her knowledge of political asylum is second to none."