Jepp Associates

Transactions that define a legacy.

Jepp Associates is a boutique corporate and commercial practice. We act on mergers, acquisitions, investment and exits, and on the structures behind them, for ambitious companies and the owners who built them.

About the firm

Who we are.

Jepp Associates acts for a select group of companies and the people behind them. What defines the firm is its standard of care: advice tailored to each client and carried through an ongoing working relationship, one that deepens as the business does.

“The best corporate advice sounds like it came from inside the business. Our job is to know a client's company well enough that when the defining transaction arrives, we are already fluent in it.”
Catherine Baines Managing Partner
Catherine Baines

Highly selective

We take on only a small number of clients, and everything else about the firm follows from that choice.

Counsel to the people

We act first for the people behind the company, and represent the company's interests through theirs.

Relationships measured in decades

Clients stay with us for the life of the business, not just the life of a deal.

Discretion is standard

Confidentiality and professionalism in every engagement, without ever being asked.

What we do

Our focus.

The work covers the whole life of a business: from formation through growth, dispute and departure to exit. Whatever the moment demands, the answer comes from a firm that already knows the whole picture.

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Corporate & Commercial

The transactions that carry a company from formation to exit.

  • Mergers, acquisitions & disposals
  • Corporate structuring & shareholder agreements
  • Commercial contracts
  • Succession, exit & sale planning

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Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Every dispute prepared as though it will be tried, which is usually what settles it.

  • Commercial & contractual disputes
  • Shareholder & partnership disputes
  • Mediation & arbitration
  • Debt recovery & enforcement

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Employment & Immigration

The people side of growth, handled before it ever becomes a dispute.

  • Contracts, policies & handbooks
  • Settlement agreements & exits
  • Employment tribunal representation
  • Business immigration & visas
120+

Acquisitions, disposals and restructurings led to completion over two decades

90%

Of new work comes from existing clients and their referrals

£150m+

In transaction value advised on

In our clients' words

They have been part of every acquisition since the first one, and each has been more complex than the last.
What began as one small acquisition is now a group of six companies and several hundred employees. They led the legal side of every step, and they were advising on the ambition, not just the transaction in front of them. Group chief executive, manufacturing
Merging two family businesses is not just a legal exercise. They understood that from the start.
There were three generations and two sets of advisers in the room, and they kept the commercial logic and the family politics moving in the same direction. It completed on terms everyone could live with. Joint managing director, following a merger
The sale was complicated and it was personal. They handled both.
They understood that the price was not the only thing being negotiated, and they told me plainly where my position was weak. It completed on terms I can live with. Retiring proprietor, engineering business

Enquiries

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Office
260 Dewsbury RoadWakefield WF2 9BY, England

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