Ocorian, a financial services group and provider of fund, corporate, capital markets and private client services has completed the acquisition of Nordic Trustee, a provider of trustee and agency services for bonds and direct lending in the Nordic region.
This transaction reflects Ocorian’s strategy to further build its capital markets offering, one of its fastest growing business lines.
Nordic Trustee will continue to be led by CEO Cato A Holmsen and a highly experienced management team. The team will continue to run Nordic Trustee’s business and secure the company’s role as an independent and market leading bond trustee and loan agent across the region with offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki.
Frederik van Tuyll, Chairman and CEO at Ocorian, says: “Nordic Trustee is highly complementary to our existing global network and this partnership is an exciting part of our business growth. We are looking forward to working with Cato and the whole team to give our clients the opportunity to tap into the fast-growing Nordic bond and direct lending markets. The transaction also significantly expands the breadth and depth of solutions that Nordic Trustee can offer their clients including expansion outside the Nordic region.”
CEO Cato A Holmsen says: “This is great news for our clients and everyone at Nordic Trustee. We share a single-minded focus on building long term client relationships founded on excellent client service, something which both Nordic Trustee and Ocorian is renowned for. We are looking forward to being part of Ocorian to support our clients’ needs, now and in the future.”
Since it was founded in 1993, Nordic Trustee has played a primary role in the development of the Nordic bond market, facilitating issuers access to capital, as well as monitoring and securing bondholders’ rights. Nordic Trustee has been an integral part of the Nordic bond market supporting borrowers and lenders with advice through more than 400 bond restructurings and 2,000 bondholders’ meetings. Nordic Trustee is also the largest independent loan agent in the growing Nordic private credit market and supports various stakeholders in the bond and private loan markets with digital solutions.
The company has over 3,000 running assignments in the non-bank lending sector for more than 850 issuers and borrowers from 30 countries. Furthermore, the company provides bond reference data, pricing information and indexes to institutional investors through its proprietary platforms Stamdata, Nordic Bond Pricing and eFIRDS.
