B P Collins LLP

B P Collins LLP: solicitors for businesses and individuals across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and London

B P Collins LLP is a firm of solicitors whose work is organised around two broad client groups, businesses and individuals, and whose offices are located in Gerrards Cross, Thame, West London and the City. The firm presents itself as drawing on more than 60 years of legal practice and describes its lawyers as dedicated to advising companies and private clients.

Its stated coverage spans Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and London, with the four offices distributed across those areas. The firm also maintains a client portal and lists payment options among its client-facing services.

Corporate and commercial work

On the business side, the corporate practice covers business structures, employee ownership trusts, general corporate advice and compliance, incentive schemes, investment and fundraising, lending and security, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity and venture capital. The firm publishes a section on its own deals.

The commercial team handles commercial contracts, a contract review service, data, intellectual property, and technology, digital and e-commerce matters. Sector experience is presented for construction, creative industries, environment, food and beverage, insurance, pharmaceutical and healthcare, retail, sports and leisure, and technology and IP.

Criminal law, regulatory and dispute resolution

The criminal law practice covers criminal defence, appeals against conviction and/or sentence, assault, bribery and corruption, business crime and fraud, cyber crime, harassment, noise abatement, police interviews, release under investigation, sexual allegations, theft and road traffic offences, including drink driving penalties and driving offences. Additional strands include higher education, professional discipline, regulatory investigations and prosecutions, unauthorised encampments, and victims' rights.

Dispute resolution includes advocacy solicitors, commercial disputes (contract, debt recovery, injunctions, regulatory, shareholder, technology and IP, and construction disputes, plus adjudication), contested probate, trusts and wills, and mediation. Personal disputes cover defamation, professional negligence and property disputes, with property litigation addressing adverse possession, boundary and co-ownership disputes, commercial break clauses, commercial tenant breaches, covenant disputes, dilapidations, easement disputes, the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, landlord and tenant disputes, landlord or tenant default, lease disputes, mortgage disputes, professional negligence property, residential possession, repairs and dilapidations, rights of light, tenant insolvency and trespass.

Employment, partnerships and insolvency

Employment work is delivered under the HR2Help banner, with advice for employers on disciplinary and grievance, discrimination claims, dismissals, employee competition and post-termination restrictions, employee data subject access requests, employer settlement agreements, employment contracts and agreements, employment tribunals and court claims, flexible working, maternity, paternity, parental and family rights, policies and procedures, redundancy, TUPE transfers, whistleblowing and workplace investigations. The same area includes business immigration, business start-up, HR consultancy, HR health checks, HR support, HR training, and redundancy and outplacement.

For partnerships and LLPs, the firm lists discrimination in partnerships and LLPs and team moves in partnerships and LLPs. Insolvency work covers insolvency and restructuring for businesses and personal insolvency for individuals. Notary services are offered separately for business and individual clients.

Property: commercial, residential and development

Commercial property work includes acquisitions and disposals, commercial property finance, landlord and tenant advice, lease advice and portfolio management. Residential property covers joint ownership, lettings advice, mortgages, residential conveyancing and property development. The property litigation service overlaps with the dispute resolution practice and covers the range of landlord and tenant, boundary, easement, dilapidations and possession matters listed above.

Private client: family, wills and estates

Divorce and family work covers abuse and coercive behaviour, child law, civil partnership, cohabitation, divorce, financial matters, modern families, neurodiversity in families, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. The wills, trusts and probate practice includes Court of Protection and deputyship, independent administration, disputed probate, trusts and wills, inheritance tax and estate planning, long-term care planning, powers of attorney, probate, deeds of variation, intestacy, trusts, will executor and wills.

Contested probate, trusts and wills are handled within dispute resolution, including Inheritance Act claims, removing a personal representative, trust and estate disputes and will disputes.

Recognition and firm profile

The firm reports that Chambers UK, described in its own news section as one of the UK's leading legal directories, announced its results for 2027 with B P Collins LLP retaining strong rankings for its practices and lawyers. The firm also publishes corporate social responsibility and equality, diversity and inclusion information, and describes its use of legal technology and its approach to price transparency.

Recruitment activity is set out in detail: current vacancies, early careers, apprenticeships, a trainee programme, a Law Insight Day, profiles of trainees, paralegal roles, a vacation scheme and a trainee blog. The site also lists committees and team pages for corporate and commercial, criminal, dispute resolution, family, employment, private client, commercial property, property litigation and residential property, along with advice for recruitment agencies, client feedback and a complaints procedure.