Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk · two offices · SRA 667838

Suffolk solicitors at Low Green Barn and Guildhall Street.

Two Bury St Edmunds offices: Low Green Barn at Nowton (the head office and administration centre, with on-site parking, beside the 200-acre Victorian Nowton Park) and 9 Guildhall Street in the town centre (two doors from the Grade I 1220 Guildhall and the Buttermarket). A 90+ team across six locations, formed in 2020 by Graham Atkins and Robert Dellow from the older Atkins Solicitors and Atkins Thomson lineage. 1312 verified reviews at 4.9 out of 5 on the Bury St Edmunds desk. Residential conveyancing, wills and probate, family law, business and employment.

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2 Bury offices Nowton head office and Guildhall Street town centre

1312 verified reviews at 4.9 out of 5

MENTA Patron and founder sponsor of the MENTA Business Show

SRA 667838

The Atkins Dellow LLP head office at Low Green Barn, Nowton, Bury St Edmunds, the Suffolk barn that houses the firm’s administration centre beside Nowton Park.

Low Green Barn · Nowton · IP29 5ND Beside the 200-acre Nowton Park, on-site parking.

2 Bury offices, Nowton and Guildhall Street

90+ named team across the firm

1312 verified reviews at 4.9 out of 5

6 offices: Bury x 2, Sudbury, Halesworth, Framlingham, London

What the Bury desk does

Four lines of work, the same team across both Bury offices.

The Bury desk is not a generalist high-street practice with a thin spread across twelve services. It is four working lines, each with named lawyers, run from Low Green Barn for administration and from Guildhall Street for town-centre meetings. The same team handles the same matter regardless of which office you walk into.

Residential conveyancing

The line most often instructed at the front door of both Bury offices, and the largest single desk at the firm. Sales, purchases, transfers of equity, remortgages, new-build acquisitions, leasehold extensions, declarations of trust between unmarried buyers. The team works on every kind of West Suffolk property, from the Georgian terraces on Whiting Street and Guildhall Street to the village stock between Bury and Lavenham. Fixed-fee quotes given before any chargeable work starts.

Leads Katie Barker, Maia Creed, Lucy Bentley

Wills, probate and lasting powers of attorney

Wills (single, mirror, life-interest trust, discretionary), full estate administration on straightforward and taxable estates, lasting powers of attorney (health and welfare, and property and financial), care-home fee planning before the moment is forced, Court of Protection. The work to do in your sixties and seventies, not your eighties. Alan Caldwell and the wider Private Client desk handle Inheritance Tax planning, residence nil-rate band assessments, and the practical question of whether the family home is sold or transferred.

Leads Alan Caldwell, Wendy Dagnall, Rosalind Milner

Family and divorce

Divorce and financial remedies (including pension sharing), pre-nuptial agreements, cohabitation arrangements for unmarried couples, declarations of trust between joint owners, and arrangements for children under the Children Act. Nicola Clayton heads the team. The conduct is collaborative by default and adversarial only where the matter genuinely requires it, with Resolution membership and a calm, considered, written-throughout approach to high-emotion work.

Leads Nicola Clayton, Georgina Jones, Lucy Kilpatrick

Business, commercial property and employment

Company sales and acquisitions, commercial leases, commercial property purchase and sale (industrial, retail, mixed-use), shareholder agreements, restrictive covenants, employment contracts, settlement agreements, day-to-day HR advice and tribunal work. The business desk acts for SMEs from Bury, Stowmarket, Newmarket, Sudbury and the West Suffolk villages, and is the reason Atkins Dellow are a founder sponsor of the MENTA Business Show.

Leads George Bennett, Tim Colbran, Sharon Culley, Adrian Green

The two partners

Graham Atkins and Robert Dellow.

The firm is named after both partners. Each runs a distinct half of the practice and the wider team sits behind them: Graham continues the media-law and reputation work from the London office, Robert sets the strategy and runs the West Suffolk full-service practice from Bury.

Founding Partner

Graham Atkins

Trained at Dentons; 30 years in media law, privacy and reputation management

Founded the original Atkins Solicitors, then built Atkins Thomson into a Top Rank Legal 500 media-law firm before forming Atkins Dellow with Rob Dellow in 2020. Recognised in Legal 500, Chambers and Spears for "a flair for the tricky stuff". Acts on libel, privacy, reputation and complex commercial disputes, often where one of the matters is a person you have heard of. Continues to run the firm’s London office at 12B Queensberry Mews West by appointment.

Partner

Robert Dellow

LLB (Hons) Law, College of Law Guildford

Sets the firm’s strategy and direction and mentors the team on individual client matters. Has independently managed a practice since his late twenties, and brings the calm, measured, pragmatic problem-solving the wider firm runs on. Previous roles at Atkins Thomson, Whatley Lane Solicitors and BDH Solicitors. Practises across business law, commercial property, family and relationships, private client, probate, wills, LPAs and residential conveyancing.

The firm, in six years and three names

2020, Atkins and Dellow put their names together.

Atkins Dellow LLP was incorporated at Companies House on 2 January 2020 (number OC430143), bringing together Graham Atkins’s older media-law practice and Robert Dellow’s West Suffolk full-service work. The lineage runs longer than the LLP filing suggests. Graham founded the original Atkins Solicitors, then built Atkins Thomson into a Top Rank Legal 500 firm for libel, privacy and reputation matters, acting for prime ministers, world leaders and household names on the cases that get on the front page.

The new firm settled its administration centre at Low Green Barn in Nowton, in the village two miles south-east of Bury St Edmunds beside the 200-acre Victorian Nowton Park. The park’s lime avenue (planted around 1880) is one of the finest in the country and the 10.8 metre totem pole in its North American arboretum is, quietly, one of the more unexpected sights in Suffolk. The town centre meeting office at 9 Guildhall Street followed shortly after, in the Grade II Georgian frontage two doors from the Grade I 1220 Guildhall where Bury Town Council has met since the thirteenth century.

Today the firm runs from six addresses: the two Bury offices, plus Sudbury, Halesworth, Framlingham, and a by-appointment London office at 12B Queensberry Mews West where the media work continues. The team is 90+ named lawyers and support staff, with named practice leads in residential conveyancing, wills and probate, family, business law, commercial property and employment. The Bury St Edmunds desk alone holds 1312 verified reviews at 4.9 out of 5 on ReviewSolicitors, one of the highest review counts of any solicitor in Suffolk.

“Thank you very much for your wise advice. You have single handedly restored the reputation of the legal profession in my eyes.” S.K., a Bury St Edmunds client of Robert Dellow

1990s Graham Atkins founds Atkins Solicitors, the first firm in the lineage that becomes Atkins Dellow.

2000s Atkins Solicitors becomes Atkins Thomson and is recognised as a Top Rank Legal 500 firm for media, privacy and reputation work, acting for prime ministers, celebrities and heads of state on the matters that get on the front page.

2020 Graham Atkins and Robert Dellow form Atkins Dellow LLP, incorporated at Companies House on 2 January 2020 under number OC430143. The Bury head office settles at Low Green Barn, Nowton, beside the 200-acre Victorian Nowton Park.

2021 The Guildhall Street town centre office opens at number 9, two doors from the Grade I 1220 Guildhall and the Bury Town Council’s own meeting hall.

2023 The firm becomes a patron of MENTA, the Suffolk and Norfolk SME charity, and a founder sponsor of the MENTA Business Show, giving free expert advice hours to growing businesses across the region.

2024 The Sudbury, Halesworth, Framlingham and London offices come fully online, taking the firm to six locations and 90+ named team members across Suffolk and South Kensington.

2026 1312 verified reviews at 4.9 out of 5 on ReviewSolicitors’s Bury record. Two Bury offices, six locations, SRA 667838.

MENTA patron · founder sponsor of the MENTA Business Show

A West Suffolk firm with a small-business spine.

Atkins Dellow are a patron of MENTA, the Suffolk and Norfolk SME charity that has given more than 156 hours of free expert advice to growing businesses across the region in the past twelve months alone. The business desk at Bury is the reason: George Bennett, Tim Colbran, Sharon Culley and Adrian Green spend a meaningful share of their week with founders, shareholders and HR leads on the matters that come up in the first five years of a company’s life. Restrictive covenants. The shareholders’ agreement nobody wrote at incorporation. The settlement on a difficult exit. The lease renewal that turns up uninvited.

The firm is also a founder sponsor of the MENTA Business Show, the annual trade fair that brings hundreds of Suffolk and Norfolk SMEs together in Bury St Edmunds. The patronage is not a sponsorship logo on a poster; it is hours of partner time given for free, in the same town the firm has its head office, to the same kind of business the firm acts for paid. The St Nicholas Hospice cycle ride is another local sponsorship; you can read the firm’s account of the April 2026 ride on the website.

Reviews

1312 verified reviews at 4.9 out of 5.

Across the Bury St Edmunds desk on ReviewSolicitors. One of the highest review counts of any solicitor in Suffolk. Three drawn from the record below.

Thank you very much for your wise advice. You have single handedly restored the reputation of the legal profession in my eyes.

S.K. Client of Robert Dellow, on private client work

Specialist expertise in conveyancing, wills, probate, LPAs, trusts and settlement agreements, delivered with clear, accurate legal advice and efficient outcomes.

ReviewSolicitors summary Drawn from 1,312 verified reviews of the Bury St Edmunds desk

Empathy, patience and a personal, compassionate approach during what was a very difficult time. Plain English throughout, no jargon, no surprises on the bill.

Conveyancing client Bury St Edmunds, 2025

Source: ReviewSolicitors Bury St Edmunds listing, all reviews verified at point of submission. Last checked 25 May 2026.

First instruction

Tell us briefly what the matter is and we will reply with the right desk.

The form below goes straight to client.care@atkinsdellow.com. A real person reads it the same working day and routes you to the right Bury desk (conveyancing, wills and LPAs, family, or business and employment). If you would rather pick up the phone, the Nowton head office is 01284 767766 and the Guildhall Street office is 01284 331800. The switchboard is 0330 912 8338.

Visit

Two Bury offices. Same team, same file, your choice of door.

Low Green Barn at Nowton is the head office and administration centre with on-site parking. 9 Guildhall Street is the town centre meeting office, two doors from the Grade I Guildhall. Hours Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 at both. Closed weekends.

Low Green Barn, Nowton, Bury St Edmunds IP29 5ND. Head office and administration centre. On-site parking, beside Nowton Park. Direct line 01284 767766. Open in Google Maps ↗

9 Guildhall Street, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1PR. Town centre meeting office. Two doors from the Grade I 1220 Guildhall, four minutes from the Buttermarket. Direct line 01284 331800. Open in Google Maps ↗

Frequently asked

Five questions the front desk hears most often.

Are you the same firm as Atkins Thomson? What happened to Atkins Thomson?

The same lineage. Graham Atkins founded the original Atkins Solicitors, then built Atkins Thomson into a Top Rank Legal 500 firm for media, privacy and reputation work. In January 2020 Graham and Robert Dellow incorporated Atkins Dellow LLP at Companies House (number OC430143) to bring together the media-law practice and a wider full-service West Suffolk team. The Bury head office is at Low Green Barn, Nowton; the London office at 12B Queensberry Mews West, where the privacy and reputation work continues, is by appointment. Atkins Dellow is the present and ongoing form of the firm.

Do you offer fixed fees for a straightforward will, LPA or probate?

Yes. The Bury Private Client desk publishes fixed fees on the most-instructed work: a straightforward single will, mirror wills for a couple, a single LPA, paired property-and-financial and health-and-welfare LPAs, and a fixed-fee Obtaining Probate option where the estate is genuinely straightforward. Where a taxable estate needs full administration we quote on hourly with a written estimate before any chargeable work begins. The same fixed-fee structure applies to standard residential conveyancing on West Suffolk properties.

Which Bury office should I visit, the one by Nowton Park or the one on Guildhall Street?

A rule of thumb: Low Green Barn at Nowton is the head office and administration centre with on-site parking, easiest for first-instruction meetings on a will, an LPA or a conveyance when you are driving in from the villages. 9 Guildhall Street is the town centre meeting office, two doors from the Grade I Guildhall and the Buttermarket, easiest for walk-ins and lunchtime appointments. Either way the same team handles the matter, and the file moves between offices as the work needs. Each office has its own direct phone (01284 767766 for Nowton, 01284 331800 for Guildhall Street).

Can you do my house sale and the conveyancing on the new place at the same time?

Yes, and the conveyancing team is set up to run a linked sale-and-purchase chain as a single file with a single point of contact, which keeps the dates aligned and avoids the most common cause of a chain falling apart (two solicitors at opposite ends of a chain finding out about a critical question at different times). Sales, purchases, transfers of equity, remortgages, new-build acquisitions and leasehold extensions all sit within the same desk. Fixed-fee quotes given before any chargeable work starts.

Can you help with a divorce and the related child-arrangements matter through the same team?

Yes. The Family desk, led by Nicola Clayton with Georgina Jones and Lucy Kilpatrick, handles the financial remedies and the Children Act arrangements on the same file rather than passing it across two desks. The conduct is collaborative by default (Resolution membership) and adversarial only where the matter genuinely requires it. Pre-nuptial agreements and cohabitation arrangements for unmarried couples are also drafted on the same desk. If the matter involves a contested matrimonial home, the conveyancing and family teams coordinate so the property side is moving at the same time as the financial side.