Rebecca Hone
Rebecca Hone is a director in Moore Kingston Smith’s legal practice and is our head of Immigration Legal Services. She is an experienced immigration law solicitor with a primary focus in business immigration, facilitating the seamless transfer of her clients’ international staff to the UK. Additionally, she secures sponsorship for domestic and overseas new hires/existing employees.
Rebecca’s clients range from SMEs to large multi-national corporates. She guides them through the complex process of applying for a sponsor licence to employ migrant workers, appointing herself as key personnel on their licences. This ensures full compliance with the UK’s transient immigration rules and adherence to the various sponsorship reporting and record-keeping duties.
Following Brexit, Rebecca increasingly advises global companies on expanding into the UK market, ensuring their UK entities are incorporated to comply with the sponsor licence requirements and allow for transferring EU/EEA staff to the UK. Rebecca is proactive and forward thinking on behalf of her clients, regularly providing innovative advice on unique matters where standard immigration and sponsorship routes are not possible.
She advises on all aspects of business immigration, including bespoke right-to-work training/advice for UK employers, litigating UKVI immigration enforcement notices/investigations, sponsor licence suspensions/rating downgrades, and illegal working civil penalties.
Rebecca has carved a niche for herself in the intricate area of mergers and acquisitions, successfully advising her clients on the sponsor licence implications resulting from a sale, purchase or takeover. She ensures that all parties to the transaction remain compliant with their sponsorship duties and right-to-work obligations, and advises on transferring sponsored workers to the new sponsoring entity.
Rebecca also specialises in private/personal immigration, providing tailored advice to individuals and their dependent family members, with the view to acquiring settlement/indefinite leave to remain and/or British citizenship.
