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B P Collins

COLLINS HOUSE, 32-38 STATION ROAD, GERRARDS CROSS, SL9 8EL
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Work 01753 889995
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Fax 01753 889851
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40256 GERRARDS CROSS
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www.bpcollins.co.uk
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B P Collins is a consistently successful full-service law firm which delivers robust legal solutions for both commercial and private clients

The firm: The firm specialises in tailored, innovative and effective legal advice for all clients – from business start-ups to multinationals, from successful entrepreneurs to retired professionals. For more than 40 years, the firm has developed an enviable reputation for competence and quality. The firm has a solid track-record of winning cases, solving clients’ problems, safeguarding clients’ interests and giving clients peace of mind. B P Collins continues to hold the Law Society’s Practice Management Standard (LEXCEL).

Types of work undertaken: Corporate and commercial: covering the full range of clients’ needs including acquisitions and disposals, shareholder issues and complex commercial contracts. The team provides solutions to successful entrepreneurs, growing businesses, inward investors and mid-tier corporates and takes a genuine interest in building long-term relationships based on an understanding of clients’ businesses, their aims and aspirations, and the challenges that they face.

Employment: the size of the team allows for individual specialisms within its core areas of corporate support, employment rights and benefits, contracts, executive terminations, discrimination and dismissal claims, protection of confidentiality and business transfers. The team has been particularly prominent in the legal press over the last 12 months, handling a number of widely reported discrimination cases including Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes.

Litigation and dispute resolution: a sizable team, including several experts in their field and four qualified mediators. The partners’ continuing growth and diversity of expertise ensures that their solid track-record of winning cases across the range of courts is maintained. The team offers rapid, clear and practical advice regarding all commercial contract disputes, construction, partnership and shareholder disputes, IP and IT disputes, factoring and trade finance, fraud and insolvency to large and successful businesses across the UK. The burgeoning expertise in the property litigation team enables the firm to handle landlord and tenant disputes for a growing number of clients.

Commercial and residential property: a key strength of the team is its ability to field people with longstanding experience in commercial and residential development, the waste and gravel industries, the retail sector, secured lending, sales and leasebacks, joint ventures, development agreements, industrial, commercial and residential investment, agricultural and trust-related work. The team includes recognised leaders, advising on the increasing impact of environmental law on property ownership and transactions. Support is also provided to the corporate practice when undertaking acquisitions, refinancing and disposals and provides residential property services to a constituency of individuals with significant assets.

Family: this skilled and respected team comprises members of Resolution and is qualified to practice collaborative law. Their breadth of experience covers advising high-net-worth clients on their foreign assets, pensions and pre-nuptial agreements and attracts a variety of high-profile cases. The team specialises in matrimonial cases for professionals requiring expert advice on matters ranging from pension arrangements to the valuation of business shares, as well as the more common aspects of contact and maintenance.

Private client: legal directories continue to regard the team as one of the best in the Thames Valley. They provide a dedicated trust administration service, legal services specifically for not-for-profit organisations and advice on issues affecting the elderly, not often found in traditional practices. Lauded by clients and peers, the team has strength in estate planning and administration and trusts, which increasingly encompasses international tax work to include offshore trusts.

Number of UK partners 20
Number of other UK fee-earners 37

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