B P Collins LLP — England

Gerrards Cross, London, Thame36 lawyers

About

- B P Collins LLP - Thame - London - 40 Gracechurch Street B P Collins LLP is a consistently successful law firm dedicated to delivering robust legal solutions for both commercial and private clients through all stages of their business or personal life. The firm operates in London, Ickenham, Gerrards Cross and Thame. The firm: The firm specialises in tailored, innovative and effective legal advice for all clients, ranging from business start-ups to multinationals, and successful entrepreneurs to retired professionals. For over 59 years, the firm has developed an enviable reputation for competence and excellence. It has a solid track record of winning cases, solving clients’ problems, managing risk, safeguarding and growing wealth, and providing peace of mind. B P Collins continues to hold the Law Society’s Practice Management Standard (Lexcel) and other Law Society quality schemes. - Types of work undertaken Corporate: the team works with investors, business owners and UK branches of international businesses, amongst others. They are renowned for flexibility and responsiveness and greatly value communication with clients to formulate the right strategy to take forward. Commercial: this team of experts work in partnership with clients to protect them and limit their liability. Their knowledge and experience enable them to guide clients through challenges and ensure consistency and quality of service and brand. They are meticulous in their approach and often act as a second opinion to in-house teams to ensure legal budgets go further. They help clients prevent costly and negative situations. Employment: this established and dedicated team is well known for tackling difficult and sensitive issues. They manage a diverse case load, acting for employers and C-suite employees. The size of the practice allows for individual specialisms in its core areas of corporate support, employment rights and benefits, contracts, executive terminations, business immigration, discrimination and dismissal claims, protection of confidentiality and business transfers. The team regularly challenges existing case law. Dispute resolution: the firm’s sizable, and growing, litigation team includes several experts in their respective fields and qualified mediators. Its continuing growth and diversity ensure that the team’s solid track record of winning cases before courts of all levels is maintained. The team offers rapid, clear and practical advice on 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. Its highly successful property litigation team enables the firm to handle landlord and tenant disputes for many clients. A specialist construction disputes team supports the firm’s property clients and a growing criminal disputes team deal with professional discipline, regulatory investigations, business crime and fraud as well as services relating to driving offenses, illegal encampments, victim's rights and mental health. Commercial and residential property: the team boasts recognised field leaders with longstanding experience in commercial and residential development, waste and gravel industries, the retail sector and creative industries. They offer expert advice regarding secured lending, sales and leasebacks, joint ventures, development agreements, commercial acquisitions residential investment and trust-related work. The team also advises on the challenging impact of environmental law on property ownership and transactions. Support is provided to the corporate practice in undertaking acquisitions, refinancing and disposals, and the team provides residential property services to individuals with significant assets. Family: this skilled and respected team contains a breadth of experience that attracts a variety of high-profile family and divorce cases. They advise high-net-worth clients on their divorce or separation, foreign assets, pensions and pre-nuptial agreements. Where children are involved, the team help with decisions about their care and the financial arrangements for them. They are committed to a constructive approach to resolving family matters. 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 and legal services specifically for not-for-profit organisations and issues affecting the elderly, an area that traditional practices rarely cover. The team has recognised strength in estate planning and administrations and trusts, including offshore trusts. It increasingly handles international tax and domicile issues for a diverse range of wealthy clients. ### Memberships - Law Society - Solicitors Regulation Authority ### Staffing Figures - 23 Number of UK partners - 64 Number of other UK fee-earners

Office locations

Gerrards Cross

B P Collins LLP 20 Station Road Gerrards Cross SL9 8EL South East

+01753889995 enquiries@bpcollins.co.uk

London

B P Collins LLP 40 Gracechurch Street London EC3V 0BT

+01753889995 enquiries@bpcollins.co.uk

Thame

B P Collins LLP 12a Bell Lane Thame OX9 3AL South East

+441844397397 enquiries@bpcollins.co.uk

Practice areas

CorporateCommercial ContractsEmploymentDispute ResolutionReal EstateProperty LitigationConstructionIntellectual PropertyInsolvencyBusiness Crime & FraudRegulatory & DisciplinaryImmigration

Lawyers in this office

Alex Zachary

Partner and Practice Group Leader · Corporate / M&A

Alison Taylor

Partner and Practice Group Leader · Commercial Property

Beth Miel

Senior Associate · Corporate / M&A

Craig Williams

Partner · Litigation

David Smellie

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Dominic Ibbs

Principal Lawyer · Private Client

Ella Moxey

Associate · Family

Elliott Brookes

Partner and head of the Property Disputes team. · Real Estate

Emma Eastwood

Associate · Family

Emma Hurrell

Partner · Wills, Trusts & Probate

Emma Leavesley

Emma is a Partner in the Family Law team. She has a broad range of experience and specialises in all aspects of family law including divorce and separation, finances, arrangements for children and advising on the breakdown of cohabitating relationships. Emma is also experienced in preparing pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements and separation agreements. Experience Emma qualified as a solicitor in 2010. Her training, which focused on family law, was at a firm in West London. Over 10 years ago, Emma began working in the Thames Valley and has worked at a regional heavyweight firm and also at a Top Tier, Top 100 firm in Oxford for 4 years prior to moving to BP Collins. She has worked with clients from a diverse range of backgrounds including in the film industry, the arts, the medical profession, the motor industry and in academia. She is meticulous in her approach and works hard for clients to help them achieve the best possible outcome. She thinks strategically, pragmatically and constructively. Emma is a member of Resolution and is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in complex financial remedies and private law children matters. Emma has also completed her mediation training. Specialisms Emma is known for her empathetic approach with clients, which has seen her support and advise vulnerable clients through challenging cases, particularly those relating to children. Emma has completed her Mental Health First Aider training through Mental Health First Aid England which has assisted Emma in her awareness of the impact that a divorce and separation can have on an individual’s mental health. · Family

Gillian Price

Principal lawyer · Real Estate

Greg Clark

Senior Associate · Employment

Holly McNeil

Associate · Corporate / M&A

Imogen Pike

Solicitor · Dispute Resolution

Javita Malhotra

Javita is a Partner in the family team and is experienced in advising on all aspects of family law including divorce and separation, financial matters, disputes relating to children and separation in respect of unmarried couples. Javita qualified as a solicitor in 2011 and since then has established a wide-ranging family practice. Her expertise includes providing advice on and drafting prenuptial and postnuptial agreements to protect pre-acquired assets or future wealth. She has worked at firms in the Thames Valley for the last 6 years. Javita has a dogged determination to ensure that her clients' best interests are met whilst also providing support and reassurance to her clients in order to meet their objectives. Javita has been ranked as both a “rising star” and a “leading associate” in the Legal 500 directory which noted that she attended to the client’s needs “impeccably” and that they were “confident of a good outcome” from the point of first contact. She is also a member of Resolution and strives to take a pragmatic approach to settling client matters. Javita has a particular specialism in complex high value financial matters with multi-jurisdictional issues as well as extensive experience in advising in complex disputes relating to children. · Family

Jo Davis

Partner and Employment Practice Group Leader · Employment

Jonathan Moss

Jonathan heads up the criminal law team at B P Collins LLP. He specialises in all areas of criminal defence, including road traffic and regulatory law. He has acquired an in-depth knowledge in these areas of law and he can advise and attend any interviews under caution conducted by authorities such as the Police, Environment Agency, Environmental Health, HMRC, Department for Work and Pensions and other Government departments. He will also prepare any case, should you or your company ever be required to attend a criminal court. Jonothan can also advise on options available including assisting with your Victims' Right to Review, should you be the victim of crime and the CPS or Police unreasonably refuse to prosecute an offender in your case. Jonothan has been able to set aside initial decisions made by the authorities by making challenges to an investigation and holding to account those whose duty it is to prosecute cases. Experience With over 30 years of experience, Jonathan has represented numerous individuals and companies across the Thames Valley who have been investigated by the authorities over a wide range of issues, including large-scale fraud cases, environmental breaches, dangerous dog cases, and fatal road traffic matters. He has also taken two cases to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the UK. Jonothan is accredited individually by The Law Society for his expertise in Criminal Litigation. · Criminal Litigation

Kathryn Fielder

Partner · Employment

Laura Mortimer

Partner · Family

Lucy Wood

Partner and Practice Group Leader · Wills, Trusts & Probate

Manjot Dhillon

Senior Associate · Real Estate

Maria Mowberry

Partner · Real Estate

Martina Razaq

Partner · Real Estate

Matthew Brandis

Partner and Practice Group Leader · Litigation

Matthew Tebbot

Matthew is a partner in the residential property department and deals with a wide range of residential property matters. His main emphasis is on the acquisition and disposal of both leasehold and freehold properties for high-net-worth individuals, developers and property investment companies. Specific areas of expertise include resolving title matters, portfolio acquisition, re-financing, sales and purchases at auction, freehold estate disposals, residential development sales, new-build purchases, luxury senior living sales and purchases, equity release, voluntary lease extensions and landlord and tenant matters. Experience Matthew has acted on the purchase of a £52m penthouse apartment and sales of apartments worth over £30m. Matthew is a trusted advisor to one of London’s largest landlords, for whom he has worked on several portfolio acquisitions and block disposals and numerous leasehold and freehold sales and purchases. Matthew has overseen the sales of new apartments at some of London’s most prestigious developments and has worked for some of the UK’s largest property developers. · Real Estate

Naadim Shamji

Naadim is a Senior Associate in the Private Client team. He works with clients from a variety of backgrounds, principally across Buckinghamshire and London. He advises on all aspects of private client work including wills, estate planning, inheritance tax, loan agreements, trusts, lasting powers of attorney, court of protection applications (including deputyships) and probate, among other areas. Specialisms Naadim has particular expertise advising on asset protection, typically through the use of trusts and loans agreements. A common scenario he assists with is parents seeking to advance money to their adult children (e.g. towards the purchase of a property) while protecting their capital in the event their children later divorce. Naadim has assisted on a number of complex Court of Protection applications. Other achievements In addition to two degrees, Naadim holds a Diploma in Trusts and Estates from the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP). Naadim achieved a Merit overall, and a Distinction on the paper for Taxation of Trusts and Estates, the hardest paper in the Diploma. Naadim is a Full Member of STEP. He is entitled to use of the designation ‘TEP’ (Trust and Estate Practitioner). Naadim is also included on the Pro Bono Recognition list for 2024 and 2025 for the work he completes in his spare time. Naadim has assisted with an application to the High Court to have a missing person declared dead, one of only a handful of such applications a year. Naadim currently serves in a voluntary capacity as a member of Legal Committee of the Ismaili National Council (UK) and was appointed in 2023 to the National Conciliation and Arbitration Board for the UK by the Aga Khan. He is also a trained facilitator on Ethical Wealth Transfer and Inheritance Planning for the Ismaili community. · Private Client