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Save time with combined Escrow and Paying Agent Services

Computershare understands the need for an escrow and paying agent that can tailor an agreement to your specifications, ensuring the expedient setup and efficient administration of your escrow account.

Benefits
  • Quick account setup
  • Streamlined Know Your Customer (KYC) process
  • On-time funds disbursement
  • Investment optimization for balances held in escrow, including interest bearing and non-interest bearing deposits
  • Cross-border capabilities
  • Regulatory compliance for tax, reporting, and KYC
Our Clients:

We work with a variety of clients involved in:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Asset purchases and divestitures
  • Litigation services
  • Bankruptcy asset sales
  • Set-aside accounts required by federal or state regulation
  • Real estate transactions
  • Vendor contract disputes
 
Escrow Services
  • M&A Holdback and Indemnity
  • Working Capital
  • Purchase Price Adjustment
  • Earn-Out
  • Performance Guarantee
  • Subscription Escrows
Capabilities
  • Real-time online reporting to inform stakeholders of payment status, compliance status and tax verification
  • Paying agent portal for receiving proceeds, providing shareholder acknowledgments, and verifying shareholder tax status, available 24/7
  • Dedicated team to handle recordkeeping, oversee payment files, and ensure proper exchange or cancellation of equity
  • In-house document review specialists
  • Templated agreements
  • Escrows under U.S. and Canadian law
  • Distribution of consideration in cash or stock
 
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  • 75+ currencies

    foreign exchange and distributions

  • $1.3 trillion

    in funds movement

*Data for the 12-months ending 06/30/2024. DUA includes all issues within the paying agency system of record. All totals are in USD. CAD to USD exchange rate .73 on 06/30/2024.

We cross borders

Unlike many banks, we can hold and distribute your escrow funds directly in foreign currencies and with support in your local time zone. Through our affiliate global banking partners, we can facilitate foreign currency payments, so that you can set up your escrow with a U.S. partner rather than a separate international division of a regional bank. We make escrows involving cross-border or emerging markets transactions easier.

 

Computershare does not provide legal or tax accounting services for its customers. Customers should always consult their own professional tax and legal advisors in connection with any effort to qualify a particular transaction for favorable treatment under applicable tax laws and regulations.

 

Why Computershare?

Computershare Corporate Trust is an industry leader with USD$5.8 trillion of debt under administration, USD$342.7 billion in assets under administration and cross-border capabilities including USD$1.3 trillion in funds movements across 75+ currencies in foreign exchange and distributions.

$5.8 Trillionof debt under administration
$342.7 Billionin assets under administration
$1.3 Trillionin funds movements

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Wells Fargo CTS is now Computershare Corporate Trust

We offer a wide range of services that fulfill our clients’ unique and emerging needs in corporate and structured finance, debt issuance and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

With the acquisition of Wells Fargo CTS in November 2021, Computershare Corporate Trust is among the top providers in the US ranking #1 in CMBS, CRE CLO and top 3 in RMBS, CLO, ABS, Convertible and High Yield Debt. Our team of more than 2,000 employees continues our commitment to delivering the highest standards of service and value to our entire client base.