Malini Skandachanmugarasan

Practice Areas

Malini is a partner in the Immigration team and leads the firm's growing personal and private client immigration practice. She is one of the UK's leading immigration lawyers advising both organisations and individuals and specialising in UK immigration law, Nationality law and European law for over a decade.

The Legal 500 marks her out as a Next Generation Partner, and Who’s Who Legal as a Future Leader “providing the right solutions” to complex immigration issues. She is also ranked by Chambers for her Personal Immigration work.

Her clients range from financial institutions and UK start ups to high net worth individuals, senior executives and international families.

In addition to her considerable experience in business immigration with a focus on companies looking to set up in the UK, Malini's day to day practice involves regularly advising on personal immigration assisting private clients with all UK immigration applications to the point of British Citizenship. Her practice has a particular emphasis on applications based on partnership, family and private life, human rights and discretionary leave outside the Immigration Rules.

Career

Qualified in 2007.

Specialist in Immigration Law since 2007.

Joined Doyle Clayton in 2020 as a Legal Director. Promoted to Partner in January 2022.

Professional Memberships

Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA).

International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA).

Publications

Malini regularly contributes to publications including LexisNexis and provides legal commentary in the general media including The Guardian and LBC Radio.