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    Esther S. Jeapes

    Practice Area Associate

    London +44-20-7959-8900
    jeapese@sullcrom.com
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    Esther Jeapes is head of UK Know-how for the London Office of Sullivan & Cromwell with a focus on mergers & acquisitions, corporate, capital markets and financial services.

    Before joining Sullivan & Cromwell she was head of M&A Know how at Shearman & Sterling. Before moving into a knowledge management role Esther spent more than 10 years as a corporate transactional lawyer in Slaughter and May and Shearman & Sterling, advising mainly on mergers & acquisitions, financial services, finance and equity capital markets.

    Before law school, Esther studied Politics Philosophy and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford University.

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    Experience

    Experience

    • Allianz SE, through its digital investments arm Allianz X, in its investment in Nasdaq-listed AlTi Global, Inc. of $250 million
    • AXA SA in its €5.4 billion sale of AXA Investment Managers to BNP Paribas
    • JC Flowers in its acquisition of a stake in LMAX 
    • Allianz SE on its divestment of an asset management business to Voya
    • ISDA on amendments to Master Agreement 
    • DV Trading on membership of trading venue 
    • Apollo advice on regulation of insurers
    • Digital Bridge on their acquisition of AMP
    • tZero on UK financial services regulatory matters
    • dYdX on UK regulation of Crypto
    • Uniswap Labs on UK regulation of Crypto
    • Galaxy Digital Holdings Limited on UK financial services regulatory matters
    • Nomura advice on MIFID transaction reporting 
    • CoreCommodity on a Joint Marketing Agreement with Reuters regarding the CoreCommodity CRB Index
    • NorthStar advice on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and a spin off IPO
    • Butterfield Bank on custody arrangements resulting from acquisition of custody business 
    • VeeFriends advice on NFTs, regulation and consumer law
    • Various clients on compliance with EMIR, AIFMD, MIFID II, Market Abuse
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises American International Group on $1.25 Billion Registered Notes Offering

      May 14, 2025
    • S&C Advises Foxconn in Formation of €1 Billion Auto Partnership with ZF Group

      July 31, 2023
    • S&C Advises Underwriters in Confluent IPO

      June 30, 2021
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • College of Law, London, Postgraduate Diploma in Law-CPE, 1993
    • University of Oxford, B.A., 1990

    Bar Admissions

    • England and Wales
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    Related Practices

    Related Practices

    • General Practice
    • Capital Markets
    • Europe
    • Financial Services
    • Financial Services Capital Markets
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
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